Music and singing among the Arabs

It is no secret that among the arts spread throughout the world there are five arts known as the fine arts. Because it is the most beautiful of the arts, and mastery of it is only possible for those with talents specialized in it, and these five arts are: music, drawing, engraving, building engineering, and poetry. As for the Arabs, the science of melodies is ancient among them, or it accompanies the composition of poetry. Because they say: "e;The Arabs only made poetry balanced in order to extend the sound in it and chant it. If it were not for that, arranged poetry would have been like scattered news. As for musical instruments, they may have had simple ones like the flute, drum, and trumpet. As for the oud and the qanun, the Arabs took them from the Persians or the Romans at the beginning of Islam, and they became interested in With them and singing a lot, until what we heard about Al-Rashid and his singing sessions."e;Arab poets at the beginning of Islam composed many verses in praise of the oud and other things, and scholars arose at the beginning of Islam who worked in the art of music and wrote books about it, the most famous of whom was Abu Nasr Muhammad Khan al-Farabi al-Turki, the famous philosopher who wrote works on logic, music, and other things. Medical scholars said: A good sound flows through the body and veins, making the blood clear, the soul grows, the soul is at ease, the limbs are shaken, movements are eased by hearing, the sick person is comforted by it, and it distracts him from thinking. Then the Arabs took up singing, as previously mentioned, and the Persian kings used to distract the sad person by listening, so that his limbs could relax and the innermost souls would be guided by it when he was upset.