Is this saying permissible: "If time were just, I would ride"?

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The questioner : This person is quoting the poet's saying: "If time were just, I would ride". Is such a saying permissible?

The Shaykh : We say that Allah the Exalted said:

⁽²²⁴⁾ And the poets - [only] the deviators follow them; ⁽²²⁵⁾ Do you not see that in every valley they roam ⁽²²⁶⁾ And that they say what they do not do? - ⁽²²⁷⁾ Except those [poets] who believe

والشعراء يتبعهم الغاوون* ألم تر أنهم في كل واد يهيمون* وأنهم يقولون ما لا يفعلون* إلا الذين آمنوا

[Ash-Shu'ara 26:224-227]

And a thing is not attributed to time; everything that happens is by the will of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and Allah (Mighty and Majestic) does not wrong anyone, but rather He is a judge of justice. However, this is the poet's saying, and it is a rejected saying. Yes.

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