i <3 Bono
Personally I’m looking forward to the album.

In retrospect, you’re probably right — in reading the original article, they says: “There’s some trance influences. But there’s some very hardcore guitar coming out of the Edge. Real molten metal. It’s not like anything we’ve ever done before, and we don’t think it sounds like anything anyone else has done either.”

They have done some suprising things and taken some odd turns in their career — Rattle and Hum for instance featured seamless integration of black American gospel and blues. I’m eager to see what they do regardless.

Talk of the ‘kafir’ vs the believers here doesn’t help anyone I’m afraid.

I agree — the reference to myself as such was a glib response to some earlier comments, no offense to the host of this blog.

vahhabiman on December 31, 2007 at 7:50 pm said:

brother i did not say anything bad against being spiritual. i am talking about the sufis spinning around in circle, singing and dancing. they pray to prophet(saw) and other imams. that is not islam to pray to anyone else but Allah. la ilaha ill Allah means you only pray to Allah, not muhammad(saw) or other imams. they do lots of weird stuff. making strange sounds and calling it zikr. they dont want muslims to read the quran just follow the sheikh. maybe not all sufi do this but that is what sufi is all about. sufi think they can be one with Allah. no one can be one with Allah, Allah is one and no one can be inside Allah or Allah cannot be inside anyone. that is only hindu belief.

yes, true…i was defending you.

Christopher on January 1, 2008 at 4:17 am said:

I’m an American kafir. I’m generally acquainted with Islam and one of the conduits was Sufi music, particularly that of Latif Bolat. If any band is capable of incorporating Sufi music with respect, I imagine it would be U2.

(Of course, this wouldn’t be the first time Sufis and Americans have made music together; Eddie Veddar (Pearljam) sang with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on the Dead Man Walking soundtrack).

Anyway, peace.

a fine example of Sufi music there brought to a mass audience. I like Nusrat and his nephew. Jeff Buckley was a fan.

I still don’t think U2 will incorporate sufi music, respectfully or otherwise. From my reading what they have learned from the Sufi’s is the different ‘technical’ approach to composition. Thats the level they are operating on. I don’t think they will venture away from the sound of their ‘rock and roll’ - it’ll just be put together in a different way.

Talk of the ‘kafir’ vs the believers here doesn’t help anyone I’m afraid.

(Of course, this wouldn’t be the first time Sufis and Americans have made music together; Eddie Veddar (Pearljam) sang with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on the Dead Man Walking soundtrack).

Anyway, peace.

a muslim brother on December 31, 2007 at 7:24 pm said:

everyone defines spirituality in a different way. its metaphysical, that is what makes it spiritual.

you can define it as tasawwuf. a salafi can define it as keeping to the sunnah and avoiding the bidah. for them it is spiritual.

there is no right answer. so dont assume YOUR definition (or that of YOUR shuyookh) of spirituality is the only one or the most correct.

right. there are many forms of spirituality, sufism being one of them.

you can define it as tasawwuf. a salafi can define it as keeping to the sunnah and avoiding the bidah. for them it is spiritual.

there is no right answer. so dont assume YOUR definition (or that of YOUR shuyookh) of spirituality is the only one or the most correct.