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until the appearance of heresy that they made their appearance.
Unfortunately, however, those who are in the habit of embellishing their speech
with lies have taken these traditions as means of justification for themselves and
have appropriated the name warning (tadhkir) for their fables thus forgetting the
right path of praiseworthy invocation (dihkr) and spending their time in recounting
tales, which are subject to variations, accretions, and deletions, and, which
deviate from the stories, which occur in the Koran and go beyond them. Some of
the tales are good to hear while others are harmful in spite of the fact that they
may be true. Whoever would go after this practice would no longer be able to
distinguish truth from lies and what is good from that, which is harmful.
As to poetry, its generous use in sermons is blameworthy. Allah said: “Poets are
followed by the perverse. Have you not seen how they wander in every valley… ”
Koran Ch. 26 verses 224-225.
And Allah High Exalted said:
“We have not taught him (Prophet Muhammad) poetry, nor does it become him.”
Unfortunately, however, those who are in the habit of embellishing their speech
with lies have taken these traditions as means of justification for themselves and
have appropriated the name warning (tadhkir) for their fables thus forgetting the
right path of praiseworthy invocation (dihkr) and spending their time in recounting
tales, which are subject to variations, accretions, and deletions, and, which
deviate from the stories, which occur in the Koran and go beyond them. Some of
the tales are good to hear while others are harmful in spite of the fact that they
may be true. Whoever would go after this practice would no longer be able to
distinguish truth from lies and what is good from that, which is harmful.
As to poetry, its generous use in sermons is blameworthy. Allah said: “Poets are
followed by the perverse. Have you not seen how they wander in every valley… ”
Koran Ch. 26 verses 224-225.
And Allah High Exalted said:
“We have not taught him (Prophet Muhammad) poetry, nor does it become him.”