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Does the noble verse: {As for poets, those astray follow them} indicate the prohibition of singing, given the relationship between poetry and singing?

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Poetry is measured, rhymed speech, and singing is melodious sound. The two may be linked. Most scholars consider poetry to be like speech: its good is good, and its bad is bad. However, they dislike excessive engagement with it. According to the Maliki school, it is disliked to excessively engage in poetry that is not needed. According to the Hanafi school, poetry is disliked if a person persistently engages in it and makes it a profession that distracts him from the remembrance of Allah, or if it describes forbidden things. As for singing, jurists differed on it: some absolutely forbade it, while others permitted it for benefit or to dispel loneliness, provided it is not mere amusement. The aforementioned verses (Al-Shu'ara: 224-227) were revealed concerning the poets of the polytheists who did not adhere to truthfulness, and they exempted those who believed, performed righteous deeds, and defended the truth with their poetry.

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