"Although music is halal, promoting and teaching it is not compatible with the highest values of the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic."
~Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Halal just means legal.
Ah music since the dawn of time used to banish the fear of the dark, to celebrate and to mourn, something as unstoppable as a tidal wave as ethereal as the air. Music resonates in the very core of our being, why does a melody or a song grip millions, its as if it was written in our DNA.
Music can make us smile, cry and give us the strength to resist and in that lies the rub. He liked military and the music from the Iranian revolution, so he understands the power that it can have, hence he fears music.
To write great music you require lessons but to write inspiring music not so much, just by failing to teach music will not make it go away, it will pour out from the heart.
Music is something universal and unites us all it is the core of our very being, in one song more understanding of another culture can be had than in all the diplomacy in the world. It is universal and unstoppable no matter how much you fear its sound.
Some of our own religious and political leaders declared rock and roll the devils music, just look how much success they had.
You don't need much to bring joy: A few voices, a drum and away you go:
Then again training can bring you:
When you play together
OK so you forgot the instruments
All together now:
It always makes me cry.
Yep trying to stop the music is a definite win.
sigh.
And something he really wont appreciate