Imitating the poetry of innovators that contains good meanings
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Some poets among the innovators have some good meanings regarding morals. Is it permissible to quote these poems that they may have said?
The Shaykh:
My brother, even the poetry of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance and the polytheists contains good meanings, so it is cited as evidence. There is no doubt. Wisdom is the lost property of the believer. So if there is wisdom in the speech, even if it[Al-Baqarah 2:221] was from a disobedient person, it is taken. Yes, the wisdom and the benefit are taken. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
In the poetry of Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma, his Mu'allaqah is full of beneficial wisdom. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Some poets among the innovators have some good meanings regarding morals. Is it permissible to quote these poems that they may have said?
The Shaykh:
My brother, even the poetry of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance and the polytheists contains good meanings, so it is cited as evidence. There is no doubt. Wisdom is the lost property of the believer. So if there is wisdom in the speech, even if it
than a polytheist, even though
مِّن مُّشْرِكٍ وَلَوْThe questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
In the poetry of Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma, his Mu'allaqah is full of beneficial wisdom. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب الثاني عشر في علاج مرض القلب بالشيطان — islamhouse.com (1:00:11)
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