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Is feeling pleasure when reading erotic or love poetry forbidden, permissible, or disliked?

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Poetry is speech: what is good of it is good, and what is bad of it is bad. If the love poetry (ghazal) is directed at a specific person and incites immorality, then it is forbidden to recite or listen to it. But if it is vague and does not arouse lust, then there is no objection to it. However, if it was permissible but then aroused lust, it becomes obligatory to abandon it, because it is an incitement to temptation (fitna).

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