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.
Read More..Narrated Buraydah ibn al-Hasib: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم say: In eloquence there is magic, in knowledge ignorance, in poetry wisdom, and in speech heaviness. Sa'sa'ah ibn Suhan said: The Prophet of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم spoke the truth. His statement In eloquence there is magic means: (For example), there is a right due from a man who is more eloquent in reasoning than the man who is demanding his right. He (the defendant) charms the people by his speech and takes away his right. His statement In knowledge there is ignorance means: A scholar brings to his knowledge what he does not know, and thus he becomes ignorant of that. His statement In poetry there is wisdom means: These are the sermons and examples by which people receive admonition. His statement In speech there is heaviness means: That you present your speech and your talk to a man who is not capable of understanding it, and who does not want it.
Read More..Saeed said: Umar passed by Hassan when he was reciting verses in the mosque. He looked at him. Thereupon he said: I used to recite verses when there was present in it the one who was better than you (i. e. the Prophet).
Read More..The tradition mention above has also been transmitted by Saeed bin al-Musayyab through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. This version adds: so he (Umar’) feared that he would refer to the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم; therefore he allowed him.
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