Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Does the Qasida Burda Contain Shirk

			According to,
		

			to some qasida Buddha is Shere
Khan goes against the arcade of
		

			the Allisonville GEMA. Certain
verses are problematic, according
		

			to critics, for instance, what
these critics don't understand is
		

			that qasida Buddha is a poem. And
poems have poetic license. And
		

			everybody understands that
exaggeration takes place in
		

			poetry. And it is to be understood
in that, you know, it's to be put
		

			into context like that. And that's
the case with all poems.
		

			And then other things is that what
you have to look at is that
		

			whenever somebody has said
something that seems to be
		

			strange, because there's nothing
in qasida, Buddha, according to
		

			anybody that is straightforward,
clear, shirk, what they've taken
		

			is there's one or two verses in
the lines in there, which can be
		

			interpreted in an exaggerated
extreme manner, to be slightly
		

			problematic. However, we have to
have always a good opinion about
		

			people, and expect that if it's
such a great scholar as the poet,
		

			then he would not have those kinds
of meanings in mind. Because
		

			Nowhere has he said it clearly.
Now, if he had in another work of
		

			his clearly stated some kind of
shift key point. And now he stated
		

			an ambiguous point in this in this
poem, then we would assume that we
		

			know what he means. We know that
in another place, he said it
		

			explicitly. So that's why he must
also mean the shared care.
		

			However, when he hasn't done that,
and it's ambiguous, right. And
		

			it's ambiguous, and so many people
have benefited from benefited from
		

			the entire poem, and it's filled
with great gems and so on, then,
		

			why should you discount it when
the Ummah has celebrated it now?
		

			One, is that, okay, it just came
out, and we rejected it, that's
		

			one thing, but when it has stood
the test of time, and now somebody
		

			comes up to me and starts
criticizing it, and it's always
		

			been a minority of the alumni have
criticized and never the majority,
		

			then we we have to look at it more
wholesomely like that, and more
		

			practically like that. So yes, if
it's something which the majority
		

			have rejected, and only a minority
accept, then obviously I would
		

			avoid that, because I would go
with the majority when the
		

			majority have accepted it to such
a degree that it's actually
		

			written in the row that of
Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi
		

			wasallam and all these ornament of
the past they never the majority
		

			of the aroma of pass never
protested against it, then why
		

			should anybody else have an issue
with it?
		

			I think one needs to just be
educated about the good the good
		

			interpretations of it as opposed
to the negative interpretations
		

			that they may come about with. We
are obviously going through the
		

			task of the Buddha and we haven't
come to those verses yet
		

			Inshallah, when we will, will will
give a full thorough inshallah
		

			discussion about them. Bla