Advising the one interested in poetry and the Mu'allaqat to focus on the Qur'an and the Sunnah
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: A friend of mine is very interested in poetry, especially the Mu'allaqat and others. So I advised him to focus on the Qur'an and the Sunnah and to memorize them, and that this is more important. He says: Is my advice to him appropriate or not?
Answer:
Yes, if you said this, or no, yes, this is good. As for saying he should stop listening to the Mu'allaqat, like this, no, that is not appropriate, because the Mu'allaqat are solid Arabic poetry, and it has language, and he wants to benefit from it. As for what he follows, it is not the songs of the licentious and the open sinners, but rather he follows authentic Arabic poetry, there is nothing wrong with that. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: A friend of mine is very interested in poetry, especially the Mu'allaqat and others. So I advised him to focus on the Qur'an and the Sunnah and to memorize them, and that this is more important. He says: Is my advice to him appropriate or not?
Answer:
Yes, if you said this, or no, yes, this is good. As for saying he should stop listening to the Mu'allaqat, like this, no, that is not appropriate, because the Mu'allaqat are solid Arabic poetry, and it has language, and he wants to benefit from it. As for what he follows, it is not the songs of the licentious and the open sinners, but rather he follows authentic Arabic poetry, there is nothing wrong with that. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 57 من 86 /شرح كتاب إغاثة اللهفان في مصائد الشيطان/غناء البغايا/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:08:31)
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