Reconciling the emergence of poetry from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with the denial in the Qur'an that he was a poet?
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The Shaykh : May Allah reward you. If a man is unlettered—our Prophet is not unlettered now, but he was unlettered—and a verse of poetry came out of him as a slip of the tongue, does that make him a poet? Of course not. A poet is one who is skilled in poetry. So this came out of him (peace be upon him) as a slip of the tongue, and it does not make him a poet in a way that contradicts the verse you mentioned.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you. If a man is unlettered—our Prophet is not unlettered now, but he was unlettered—and a verse of poetry came out of him as a slip of the tongue, does that make him a poet? Of course not. A poet is one who is skilled in poetry. So this came out of him (peace be upon him) as a slip of the tongue, and it does not make him a poet in a way that contradicts the verse you mentioned.