Is it permissible to use phrases such as: "You are now at a distance of two bow-lengths or nearer to love, so shake towards yourself the trunk of the moment and pray for us and forget my lineage and fall in delicious love" in a literary text, taking into consideration the writer's argument that the ancients used a similar style, as in the saying of Ali (may Allah honor his countenance): "When the Hour draws near, woe to it" and "The earth quaked with its [final] quake," and the saying of Safi al-Din al-Hilli: "And the mole on his cheek was decreed by the All-Mighty, the All-Knowing"?

It is permissible to quote and allude to verses from the Holy Quran in prose or poetry if the intention is admonition, contemplation, glorification of the Quran, and beautification and blessing of speech, as some of the Salaf did. Al-'Izz ibn 'Abd al-Salam and Ibn 'Aqil were asked about this and they permitted it, citing what was narrated from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Quotation is of three types: acceptable (in sermons and admonitions), permissible (in speech, letters, and stories), and rejected (if it pertains to what Allah attributed to Himself or is in the context of jest).