Yes? No? Let's dance to-night...?

    
        YES? NO? Let's dance to-night...?
        
    

By
William Orr

I'll quickly admit
the modern dance has plenty of allure. Everything possible is
done to make it attractive. The lights are low, the music is
soft. The theme is romantic, the girls are beautifully gowed and
the whole scene is almost irresistible. More than that, just
about everybody seems to dance and very few condemn it. Is there
any real harm? Is it wrong for a Muslim to participate?

May I be frank with
you? Can there be any reasonable doubt that the modern ball room
dance is built almost wholly on sex attraction? Those who dance
assume positions in relation to each other that certainly would
not be tolerated in any other place. The essence of good dancing
is said to be the yielding of as much of the girl's body to her
partner's close embrace as he desires.

Dancing
is sex pure and simple, and impure sex.

Everything in the
dance tends to throw off restraint. The music is either fast and
furious or slow and seductive. The girl's party dress is often
cut blushingly low. Bodily contact is close. The testimony of
many who know from experience is that dancing very definitely
arouses improper sexual desire.

There is a
dangerously serious side to all this. It's no secret that God has
constructed both boys and girls that under certain stimulations
there are set in motion strong elemental life forces.

These forces are
right and proper in their rightful place, but that place is only
between those who are married. By the same token it is sinfully
wrong to arouse these passions between those who do not belong to
each other and who have no righteous way of satisfying them.

Make your decision
now!

There are girls who
declare that they could dance all evening and not experience one
improper thought. This may be true, but I seriously question it.
I am sure, however, that no redblood fellow can hold close a
dozen or more thinly clad girls all evening and remain pure in
his thinking. Let me prove what I say. Actually how long would
the dance last if men danced only with men and girls only with
girls? There can be littel doubt that the modern dance thrives on
the improper privileges it grants.

Others argue that the
dance teaches grace. Perhaps it does, but if the price of grace
is the surrender of modesty, chastity and pure thinking it's a
poor bargain. My sober opinion is that dance is one of the
Devil's sharpest tool in the world today.

Stay away from it.

QUOTES:

"Dance halls are
the modern nurseries of the divorce Courts, training shops of
prostitution, and the graduating school of infamy and vice."
(Dr. L.L. Hollingworth)

Remember the wise
words of Dr. E.S. Sonners:

"I attack the
modern dance as a reversion towards savagery. As a medical man, I
flatly charge that modern social dancing is fundamentally sinful
and evil. I charge that it is the most insidious of the manoevres
preliminary to sex betrayal. It is nothing more or less than
damnable diabolical animal physical, dissipation. Do brothers and
sisters dance like that? Father and mother? Mother and son? I
tell you the basic spell of the dance is the spell of illicit
physical contact. . . we doctors know. Trail of broken homes
prove this"