Al-Marsad newspaper: Writer Fahd Al-Ahmari commented on the sarcastic sentences and phrases that followed the permission to introduce music into the education curricula within two years.
Al-Ahmari said in an article published by him in “Makkah”, under the title “School Principal…Your Boy Didn’t Go Back!”: After the statement of the Chief Executive Officer of the Music Authority, Sultan Al-Bazai, that within two years, music will be included in the general education curricula, starting with kindergarten. To the rest of the classes, sarcastic comments were launched, the most common of which were: “Imagine the school principal calling and saying: Your son has not traveled the lute!” The decision is new.
cloak awakening
The writer added: It is true that the comment is cute and its humor lies in several factors, including that society has just begun to recover from extremism and come out of the cloak of awakening, in addition to the fact that this decision is new to our society, and it is the habit of all peoples to ridicule everything new in decisions and new systems, but one day we may We are ashamed to trade such a funny comment at the time, and we may laugh at our laughter at the time.
The correctness of the decision
Al-Ahmari pointed out that something similar happened in the course of the state’s decisions, which faced many popular and institutional objections, since the decision to teach girls to the end of integrating education and then transferring first-grade students to girls’ schools. this stage.
And he added: If we talk regarding intimidation mixed with the jokes that accompanied something more than a musical instrument, such as entering satellite channels and the presence of the camera phone in the country, which was banned for a while, then the prohibition of its use was restricted to women, and sarcastic comments (crackling) and sometimes hurtful were issued to those who provide this device to his wife.
Holiday change
The writer pointed out: Even the decision to change the weekly holiday to Friday and Saturday, was also not exempt from some natural popular objections to everything new. On the other hand, somewhat puritanical voices appeared, especially those who spoke regarding imitating the infidels on the holiday on Saturday, which is the strangest thing in this regard. . This decision was not without sweet gestures, such as lamenting over Thursday, which turned from a day off to a working day, and the pioneers of the restrooms entered the line, taunting them regarding changing the dates of meetings and nights out, and what is the mechanism for conveying the information to “Kumar”, the rest guard.
Women driving a car
Al-Ahmari continued: We still mention the popular prohibition of women driving, and when permission was issued, people circulated “cracking,” including the story of a woman who lost her way home while driving her car, so she called her husband to tell him regarding the matter, and the husband asked her: “Where are you?” She said, “I don’t know, but now I can see the Kingdom Tower!” The husband fainted from laughter: All the people of Riyadh see the Kingdom Tower!
However, the writer added: Returning to the subject of “Your son did not take a lute,” this is undoubtedly an exaggeration in humour. Otherwise, in my opinion, schools will not require students to bring musical instruments, as there will be a hall/classroom for this subject or something like that.
Islamic ruling
The writer concluded his article by saying: Far from going into the details of the legal ruling in this issue of discretion, which is the subject of great disagreement among the majority of jurists and hadith scholars because it is one of the issues of presumptive evidence. Who believes that it is forbidden and therefore music is placed as optional or from extracurricular activities without being obligatory for male and female students, at least at the beginning of the experiment
