Droned version of “Dawlat al-Islam Qamat”, the Islamic State’s National Anthem.
Dawlat al-Islam Qamat (Arabic: دولة الاسلام قامت; English: The Islamic State Has Been Established), also known by its English name "My Ummah, Dawn Has Appeared", is a jihadi nasheed (chant) which became an unofficial anthem of the Islamic State. It was released in December 2013 and soon became their most popular song. The American magazine The New Republic referred to it as the most influential song of 2014.
In two different articles, written by Simon R. Gardner and Alex Marshall, they refer to this song as "timeless". It sounds timeless, like it was unearthed in the 8th century. (...) Musically it is better than any other religious song you can name.
This sound work takes the original nasheed as a reference, deconstructing it into a more ethereal and style 'timeless' style.
"ISIS would never cross the line of going beyond a cappella." – Aymenn al-Tamimi
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On January, 2014 in Raqqa, ISIS made this statement in the document called: "Prohibition on music, song and displaying photos on shops" (Specimen 10H)
www.aymennjawad.org/2015/01/archive-of-islamic-state-administrative-documents
Statement concerning the prohibition on music, singing and photos on shops: Praise be to God who makes mighty the one who obeys Him and lowers the one who rebels against Him, and prayers and peace be upon the Messenger of God, his family, companions and whoso is close to him.
As for what follows:
Muslim brother: Know, may God have mercy on you, that stringed instruments and song are forbidden in Islam because they detract from mention of God and the Qur'an, and they are a source of strife and corruption for the heart. And the 'ulama- may God have mercy on them- have pointed to the prohibition through the following:
First: God Almighty has said: "And among the people is the one who buys the amusement of speech to mislead from the path of God without knowledge and takes it in ridicule. Such people will have a humiliating torment" [Qur'an 31:6]. Ibn Mas'ud- may God be pleased with him- said: "It is singing, by the One besides whom there is no other deity"- he repeats it three times. And the interpreter of the Qur'an Ibn Abbas- may God be pleased with them both- said: "It has been revealed concerning singing and the likes of it."The interpreter al-Wahidi said: "Most interpreters have agreed that the meaning in 'amusement of speech' is singing."
Second: Lines of evidence from the purified Prophetic Sunna:
1. The Messenger of God (SAWS) said: "Certainly there will be from my Ummah peoples who will permit fornication, silk, wine and stringed instruments"- Sahih al-Bukhari. And the meaning is that they consider these forbidden things permissible with dubious arguments and flimsy lines of evidence.
2. The Messenger of God (SAWS) said: "There are two cursed voices in this world and the Hereafter: the wind instrument on the occasion of joy, and wailing on occasion of adversity"- Sahih al-Jam'I al-Saghir. The Sheikh of Islam Ibn Taymiyya said: "This hadith is among the best lines of argument on prohibiting singing as in the famous expression from Jaber ibn Abdullah: "A voice on the occasion of blessing: amusement and game, and the wind instruments of Satan."
3. The Messenger of God (SAWS) said: "Indeed God has forbidden wine, gambling, and al-kawba." He [also] said: "And everything intoxicating is forbidden." Sufyan said: "So I asked Ali bin Badhima about al- kawba, he said: 'The drum.'" And Ahmad Shaker- may God have mercy on him- authenticated this in his commentary on the chain of transmission of Imam Ahmad.
4. The Messenger of God (SAWS) said: "Certainly there will be in this Ummah shame, decadence and disfigurement, and that is when the drink wines, adopted female singers [al-qaynat] and struck instruments." Al-Qaynat: singers from the slave girls (Sahih al-Jami' al-Saghir by Albani).
The Sheikh of Islam Ibn Taymiyya (God Almighty have mercy on him) said the following in his response to Ibn al-Muthar the Shi'i, when he attributed to the Ahl al-Sunna permitting amusement centres and singing: Ibn Taymiya called him a liar and said: "This is among the lies against the four imams, for they are agreed on forbidding [stringed] instruments that are the instruments of amusement, like the oud and the like." And al-Hassan al-Basri- may God have mercy on him- said: "Tambourines are not among the affairs of the Muslims in anything, and the companions of Abdullah (i.e. Ibn Mas'ud) used to break them." And the Imam Ahmad- may God have mercy on him- said: "The companions of Abdullah (i.e. Ibn Mas'ud) would take the tambourines from the youths in the alleys and smash them up." And on the authority of Ishaq bin Eisa al-Tabba' (reliance from the men of Imam Muslim): he said: "I asked Imam Malek bin Anas about what the people of Medina take license in from singing: he said: 'The immoral do this in our view.'"
Thus according to what has been presented the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham has issued a decision prohibiting the sale of songs on disks and musical instruments as well as the playing of songs of amusement in cars, coaches, shops and all places. Similarly we call on all shops to remove photos of men and women from the display of their shops, for on the authority of Abu al-Haaj: he said: Ali said: "Am I not to entrust you on what the Messenger of God (SAWS) entrusted me?- 'Do not let a tomb remain overseeing anything unless you have levelled it, and do not leave a picture in a house unless you have erased it.'
And every violator will expose himself to required Shari'i consequence.
"Oh you who believe, respond to God and His Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life. And know that God comes between man and his heart and to Him you will be called" [Qur'an 8:24].
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“Sounds good. Even for an infidel like me, it has a certain quality. It invigorates certain spirits. (...) The first time I heard it, I couldn’t get it out of my head for two weeks, it touched me in a different way to other nasheeds. I’d sit on the metro and it’d come into my head.” – Phillip Smyth
“While most media attention focuses on the production quality of Islamic State videos, they’re nearly all interwoven with music, giving fighters an almost messianic quality. The nasheed is meant to have universal appeal: To impressionable ears, even those which don’t understand Arabic, the nasheed appears to give a religious authenticity to even the most brutal videos.” – Simon R. Gardner
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released January 1, 2019
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Original material released by Ajnad Media Foundation, 2013. Produced in 2018. Not mastered.
Cover picture by The Islamic State.
