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