What is the ruling on writing poetry, reciting it, and listening to it?
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The questioner : What is the ruling on writing, reciting, and also listening to poetry?
The Shaykh : Reciting, writing, and listening to poetry depends on its content. If it contains good, it is good; if it contains evil, it is evil; and if it contains neither, it is idle talk from which a person should keep himself pure.
The servants of Allah who walk upon the earth with humility, when they pass by idle talk, pass by with dignity. So I see that one should not listen to it or concern himself with it as long as it is of no benefit to him, because it is idle speech and a waste of time without benefit.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : Reciting, writing, and listening to poetry depends on its content. If it contains good, it is good; if it contains evil, it is evil; and if it contains neither, it is idle talk from which a person should keep himself pure.
The servants of Allah who walk upon the earth with humility, when they pass by idle talk, pass by with dignity. So I see that one should not listen to it or concern himself with it as long as it is of no benefit to him, because it is idle speech and a waste of time without benefit.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.