Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: On the Day of resurrection Allah will not accept repentance or ransom from him who learns excellence of speech to captivate thereby the hearts of men, or of people.
Read More..Abdullah bin Umar said: When two men who came from the east made a speech and the people were charmed with their eloquence, the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: In some eloquent speech there is magic.
Read More..One day when a man got up and spoke at length Amr ibn al-As said If he had been moderate in what he said: It would have been better for him. I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: I think (or, I have been commanded) that I should be brief in what I say, for brevity is better.
Read More..Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: it is better for a man’s belly to be full of pus than to be full of poetry. Abu Ali said: I have been told that Abu Ubaid said: It means that his heart is full of poetry so much so that it makes him neglectful of the Quran and remembrance of Allah. If the Quran and the knowledge (of religion) are dominant, the belly will not be full of poetry in our opinion. Some eloquent speech is magic. It means that a man expresses his eloquence by praising another man, and he speaks the truth about him so much so that he attracts the hearts to his speech. He then condemns him and speaks the truth about him so much so that he attracts the hearts to another of his speech, as if he spelled the audience by it.
Read More..Ubayy bin Kaab reported the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم as saying: In poetry there is wisdom.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: A desert Arab came to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and began to speak. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: In eloquence there is magic and in poetry there is wisdom.
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