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this houthi nasheed is really catchy:

the introduction is pretty funny too (“we will send [the saudis] back to their home in tel aviv!”, lol).

an interesting note is that due to religious prohibitions, sunni nasheeds (eg, isis’ famous theme song) do not use instrumentation, only human voice and reverb. i looked up whether beatboxing was haram, and apparently it is indeed discouraged. shia nasheeds, eg the above, can use instruments. some tend to be sparse, like the percussion in the embedded song, but many of hezbollah’s seem to use full ensembles – though not their most well known.

if you’re interested in nasheeds in jihadi culture, the excellent (though seemingly defunct) podcast jihadology spoke about the topic on their final episode.