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Bilal's Azan" call for prayer" in Mecca and the nostalgia

Al Madinah crying in response to Bilal bin Rabah's call to prayer

Bilal went to Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, saying to him: O Caliph of the Messenger of God, I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, say: The best deed of a believer is jihad in the cause of God. Abu Bakr said to him: What do you want, Bilal? He said: I wanted to bind for the sake of God until I die. Abu Bakr said: and who makes the call to prayer for us? Bilal said, with his eyes overflowing with tears: I do not call the call to prayer for anyone after the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, Abu Bakr said: Rather, stay here and call for prayer for us, Bilal, Bilal said: If you have freed me to be yours, then let it be what you want, and if you have freed me for God Leave me and what you freed me for wha you freed me for, Abu Bakr said: rather, I freed you for God, O Bilal, travel to the Levant, where you want, and remain Mujahd.

He say about himself - may Allah pleased with him

I could not bear to stay in Medina after the death of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, and if he wanted to call the call to prayer, he came to: I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of God, his tears choked him, He cried, so he went to Sham and went with the Mujahideen, and after years Bilal saw the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, in a dream, saying: What is this distance, Bilal?! Isn't it time came for to visit us? So he woke up sad, so he rode to Madinah, and came to the grave of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and began to weep over it and roll over it, so Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein came and kissed them and embraced them, and they said to him: We desire that you make the call to prayer at the time of dawn, so he actually went up to the roof of the mosque, When he said: God is great, God is great ( Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar) Al - Madinah shook, and when he said: I bear witness that there is no god but God, its trembling increased, when he said: I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of God, the women came out of their homes, and no day was seen crying more and weeping than that day.

Some pauses on this story

Women leave their homes longing to hear the voice of Bilal bin Rabah (Women are affected by feelings and nostalgia more than men)

We find in a neuropsychological study at the bottom of the talk about the relationship between music and nostalgia that extends to the teenage years, and there is an article on the call to prayer in Turkey that says the text

First: the article on Turkey's Azan

(The call to prayer in Anatolia has an old story that still tells its chapters until now; in the time of the Ottoman Empire, the muezzin had been educated for three years. Researchers emphasize the Ottoman sultans’ interest in the following: the issuance of the call to prayer; through the “adhan institution” which was located inside the governor’s palace, and the fragrant and fresh sounds were chosen, and then the most prominent specialists, then called it “Bash the Muezzin” The muezzin to teach. They have appropriate lessons in the thresholds, they are trained on, and the best people to vote are those who are chosen after that in honor of the call to prayer, they were studying the Maqamat: the science of improving the voice (i.e. the sound), intonation and its removal from dissonance. This sound could be from the larynx, a musical instrument, or a computer.

Second: An article on teenage music and its impact on nostalgia

As I wandered through my twenties, I noticed a strange phenomenon: The music I loved as a teenager meant more to me than ever before—but with each passing year, new songs on the radio sound like raucous nonsense. On the objective level, I know this makes no sense. I can't seriously assert that Ludacris "Rollout" is technically superior to Katy Perry's "Roar," however I appreciate every second of the first and dismiss the second as a paplum shriek. If you listen to the top 10 songs of 2013, I get a headache. If I listen to the top 10 songs of 2003, I will be happy,

Third, the religious analysis

Measure yourself when you go to the sanctuary in Makkah, then you hear the call to prayer in a beautiful voice, then you return to your country, and there are those who raise the call to prayer in the same way as Makkah, what happens to you immediately: “Tears, then remember the first moments in which you were in Makkah, when you heard this call to prayer for the first time, This is a neural nostalgic music. The study talks about the extent to which music is related to the cerebral cortex, neural changes, and its relationship to memory, especially in the early years of life, let's analyze this in the story, the companions were the oldest of them when the message was 40 years old, Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, and the rest are younger than that, Witness: The first time the Companions heard the call to prayer, it is certain that many of them were in their early twenties, such as Ali bin Abi Talib, Zaid bin Haritha and other companions--may God be pleased with them all, This means that they hear the Maqamat of Bilal bin Rabah and sing it with the call to prayer in a sweet voice, and they enter into a circle of nervous nostalgia linked to memory as they remember the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, when he was among them and Bilal calling for prayer.

What is nervous craving?
Why do we love the music we heard as a teenager?

Researchers have discovered evidence that our brains associate us with music we heard as teenagers more strongly than anything we hear as adults — a connection that does not weaken as we age. In other words, music nostalgia isn't just a cultural phenomenon: it's neurotic. No matter how our tastes are otherwise evolved, our brains may still be occupied by those songs we acquired during the high drama of adolescence.

Music lights up the sparks of nervous activity in each person. But when young, the spark turns into a fireworks display. Between the ages of 12 and 22, our brains undergo rapid neurological development - and it seems that the music we loved during that decade has entered our lobes forever. When we make neural connections to a song, we also create a powerful memory trace that becomes laden with heightened emotions, This is thanks in part to the abundance of growth hormones at puberty. These hormones tell our brains that everything is so important — especially the songs that make up the soundtrack of teenage dreams. To understand why we associate with certain songs, it's helpful to start with the brain's relationship to music in general. When we first hear a song, it stimulates our auditory cortex and transforms the rhythms, melodies and harmony into a coherent whole.

But memories are meaningless without emotion—aside from love and drugs, nothing stimulates an emotional response like music, Brain imaging MRI studies show that our favorite songs stimulate the brain's pleasure circuit, which releases an influx of dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and other neurochemicals that make us feel good. The more we like the song, the more we experience neurochemical bliss, flooding our brains with some of the same neurotransmitters that cocaine then chases after.

Do you think that this study is similar to the position of our master Bilal bin Rabah -

 when he called for the call to prayer after years, and the city burst into tears, and you are aware that crying means sadness over something that has passed and longing for it at the same time, may God bless our master Muhammad - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and may God be pleased with him His honorable companions and their land.

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