أَمْ يَقُولُونَ شَاعِرٌۭ نَّتَرَبَّصُ بِهِۦ رَيْبَ ٱلْمَنُونِ
Am yaqooloona shaa'irun natarabbasu bihee raibal manoon
Or do they say [of you], "A poet for whom we await a misfortune of time?"
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52:30Ayah 149
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Or am means bal do they say that he is ‘A poet for whom we may await the accidents of fate?’ the vicissitudes of time so that he will just die like other poets.
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We went to `Aisha while Hassan bin Thabit was with her reciting poetry to her from some of his
poetic verses, saying "A chaste wise lady about whom nobody can have suspicion. She gets up with an
empty stomach because she never eats the flesh of indiscreet (ladies)." `Aisha said to him, "But you
are not like that." I said to her, "Why do you grant him admittance, though Allah said:-- "and as for
him among them, who had the greater share therein, his will be a severe torment." (24.11)
On that, `Aisha said, "And what punishment is more than blinding?" She, added, "Hassan used to
defend or say poetry on behalf of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) (against the infidels).
“Sometimes I remember the words of
the poet when I was looking at the face of the Messenger of Allah
(ﷺ) on the pulpit. He did not come down until all the waterspouts
in Al-Madinah were filled with rain. And I remember what the poet
said:
‘He has a white complexion and rain is sought by virtue of his countenance,
He cares for the orphans, and protects the widows,
These are the words of Abu Talib.”
The Prophet (ﷺ) said to Hassan, "Abuse them (with your poems), and Gabriel is with you (i.e, supports
you)." (Through another group of sub narrators) Al-Bara bin Azib said, "On the day of Quraiza's
(besiege), Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to Hassan bin Thabit, 'Abuse them (with your poems), and Gabriel is
with you (i.e. supports you).' "
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The most true words said by a poet was the words of Labid." He said, Verily,
Everything except Allah is perishable and Umaiya bin As-Salt was about to be a Muslim (but he did
not embrace Islam).
from his father, that 'Aishah was asked: "Did the Prophet (ﷺ) used to say any poetry?" She said: "He would say parables with the poetry of Ibn Rawahah, saying: 'News shall come to you from where you did not expect it.'"
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