Jazak Allah for the remainder Sister Summayah. Without getting into an argument here of whether music is haram or halal, I occasionally listen to classical music on YouTube. After reading this, I was persuaded to take out a monthly subscription to Rhapsody, where I can listen 100% legally. $15 a month is a small price to pay to remain honest.

jazakillahu khayrn

A discourse analysis of Colonial history reveals how a concept of provincialism was applied in all our domestic, communal and personal spaces to demarcate between our public and private consciousness. the provincial space was deemed crowded, lacked necessary temperament for learning, disorganized, secluded, whereas the metropolitan space had precise, symetrical and “proper” bounderies of space, learning and aesthetics. the notions of timeliness, orderliness and fitness had been storied in the narrative of development from the way a school should run to how wars had to be conducted. There are studies which even problematises the feministic (inferior) character of the sites of knowledge production and the inability to think through (rationally). The conflict of development becomes a problem of education, which in a liberal sense undermines the ability of the colonized spaces (family, school, community) to overcome its narrative of incompleteness and deficiencies. the mother, teacher or jurist in the modern state essentializes the growth of the child, student or citizen by playing into the narrative of historical truths. pedagogical violence starts with the knowledge that there are two types of knowledge: worldy, and real; and that proper knowledge or behaviour (that is essential for modernity) does not make him more happier than the other child, because they are different in their experiences of pain.