Music is an intoxicant of soul

By Mohammad Zohaib Siddique

Now-a-days people think that music is the food of soul. But I don’t think so. Music is totally opposite to food. It is the intoxication of soul. Music destroys our soul as smoking, and drinking destroy our body. Let’s compare music with the criteria of food and intoxication both. The definition of food is “Any nourishing substance than is eaten, drunk or taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy and promote growth etc of body”. According to this definition, the first criterion for a thing to be food is that it should be a substance, a material thing. But everyone knows that music is not a material. So it could not fulfill first criterion. The second on is that it should be eaten, drunk or taken into the body. But we all know that music can never be eaten, drunk or taken by the soul. It just creates electric signals in our ear which our brain processes. Thus even this criterion cannot be fulfilled by music. The third criterion is that food sustains life, provides energy and promotes growth. All of us know that music never ever has assisted in sustaining the life of soul, or providing any energy to soul and promoting growth of the soul. In this way music does not fulfill any of the three criteria that are must for food. On the other hand let’s compare music with intoxication. One of its definitions is “Overpowering exhilaration or excitement of mind or emotions”. According to this definition a thing that excites our emotion uncontrollably is intoxication. And no one will deny that music does not explode our thoughts and emotions. In this way it is proved that music is intoxication, not a food for soul.

Furthermore, consider the following points.

Life without food in not possible but life of soul without music is possible. There are millions of people in the world which have never ever listened music. Their souls are living more than ours.

The food is required after regular intervals, while music is needed when we feel desire for it regardless of time. This character matches with that of smoking or drinking, which we need when we desire.

If there is a regular music listener and one day you do not allow him to listen. What will happen to him? Of course he will be irritated in the middle of the day to listen music just like a smoker is irritated to smoke.

On the other hand if there is a man, who never pays attention to music. If one day you make him listen music. What will happen to him? He will be bored and feel lazy just like a non-drinker drinks for the first time.

There are many youngsters who fail in their love (of opposite sex). Then they begin to smoke or drink. In the same way many of them begin to listen to music (what they call painful music). It proves that music is the other name of intoxication.

If someone listens to music with concentration, his appetite to listen music increases day by day which is true for various intoxicants such as wine, bear, cigarette etc.

We know that there are many accidents occurring just because the driver was listening to his favorite audio cassette. He was so indulged in its music that he could not concentrate on his driving and coped with accident. Is it not similar to an accident whose driver was drunk?

When someone dies, why his family members do not listen to music to energize their weeping souls? The reason is one and only that music is not the food of soul but intoxication as is proved from above mentioned arguments.

Some definitions of the word “Music” are made directly from its letters. Such as:

M U S I C (by changing order) U S I C M, which means: “Useless Symphony Is Called Music”

Another definition is: M U S I C (by changing order) U I C M S, which means “Ultimate and Immense Catastrophe of Man’s Soul is called music”.

Tech and freedom of speech

Technology has brought various benefits for us. One of them is electronic media. No problem, wherever we are, we can know whats happening at distant areas without any labour. This gave rise to innumerable news channels providing latest upto date information from parliament, sport grounds, markets, and of course our communities and localities. In part few years, many news channels have been launched in pakistan in almost all regional languages. No doubt there private channels are different from state channels and look events from a different perspective. There channels show what our nation is crying for and pose special focus on the problems of our people. Previously our nation was forced to rely on govt news resources but later when private news channels were launched, people began to rely on their reporting. As the time is passing, people are also pointing at these channels saying that these channels are not independent and are influenced by govt and usa. Recent ban on news channels, and their reopening, pemra ordinance and other such events have blanketed the reliability of our media. Now people dont readily accept what media is portraying specially pakistani media. So whats the solution to this problem? Who has the answer? Yes, technology has the solution to this problem.

Now a days there are innumerable types of tools and functionalitys available in cyber world by which you can express yourselves without any interception or involvement by government. You can express and broadcast yourselves to the whole world for free.

You can make your free websites and place there audio, video, animations, graphics along with text. Its your freedom of speech. You can place articles, jokes, news, your views about people, places, sports, politics, about your family and friends. But these websites are hard to construct. Its substitute is Blog. Via blog, you can express yourself ton without any difficulty. Only you have to create an account. Blog works as a personal diary in which you can write your every days experiences. In blogs, entries can also be posted via mobile, in that case it is called as moblog. People who read your blog can also leave you comments. There are millions of blogs made by millions of people living in diff parts of world. People can post happenings of their areas which whole world can read and can interact with user directly. Now you dont need to rely on what international media is portraying, now you can know about the world by your friends. Its freedom of expression.

Their are other websites for example youtube, where you can post videos. Snap a movie from a bomb blast scene and post it on youtube as it is. This is also entertaining when you post a footage of local ceremonies, fairs, dances, and places.

Moreover there are virtual communities such as facebook, myspace, orkut, and many others. Here you can interact with people of your choice. You can search for friends by setting priorities as age, regions, sex, interests, hobbies, and ofcourse education. You can directly message them, make and join communities, share music and other data files. Its great fun, entertainment and freedom of speech.

Now a days, even nano blogging sites have been launched such as twitter, jaiku etc. You can post immediately what you think, hear, or see, via your mobile, instant messenger, or net. It will be sent to all who are following you or are your friends on their mobiles via sms. Its great service via which you can get instant knowledge of happenings around the globe directly in your hands.

All this freedom is the result of ceaseless efforts of peoples. You only need a bit of will and use of net and tech gadgets then the world is at your finger tips. Thanks to modern technology.