Advice regarding wedding parties and the exchanges of the poets

Question:
The questioner says: A friend of the Shaykh has noticed that wedding parties have become numerous in the summer, which include bringing in poets and their exchanges, along with the cursing and insulting that accompanies them. Despite this, crowds gather around them, especially the young people. What is your advice to these people?

Answer:
Muslims should fear Allah and be grateful for His blessings. They should not squander them or use Allah’s blessings—such as the blessing of security, wealth, and health—in what Allah has forbidden. They should abandon these matters and these customs, which contain nothing but foolishness. The gatherings that cause fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) for men, women, and children: they should fear Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), and their gatherings should be pure, gatherings of good, and gatherings of getting to know one another and forming bonds, free from anything of the prohibited, such as songs, drums, and the like.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good.