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From: bes@tybalt.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Qawali's allowed/forbidden?
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Date: 4 Jan 91 07:16:18 GMT
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>Someone from the subcontinent could probably answer this question:
>	Are Qawalis considered haram[forbidden] by Muslim scholars?
>	Is there any respected scholar who considers Qawalis to be
>	legit?

I think I can answer the 2nd part of this question.  Ayatollah Khomeini
considered music that is not made for lahw and la'ab [i.e. is *not* party
music] as legitimate.  This also included some secular music.

>Thank you.
>
>Jemshed Nawaz

Regards,
Behnam Sadeghi