﴿ وَٱقْصِدْ فِى مَشْيِكَ وَٱغْضُضْ مِن صَوْتِكَ ۚ إِنَّ أَنكَرَ ٱلْأَصْوَٰتِ لَصَوْتُ ٱلْحَمِيرِ ﴾

““Hence, be modest in thy bearing, and lower thy voice: for, behold, the ugliest of all voices is the [loud] voice of asses…””

�for the most abominable of all voices is the braying of an ass.⸢Sufyān al-Thawrī said, �The voice[s] of all things glorify [God] except for the voice of the ass (ḥimār),⸣ for it screeches on account of seeing Satan, and this is why God, Exalted is He, calls it abominable (munkar).