Poetry from the Perspective of Religion

Abstract

Throughout the history of Islam، the attitude of religious leaders towards poetry has been different. Although the Prophet (PBUH) himself valiued and encouraged the poets، but it seems like the attitude towards poetry and poets became too weak later on. Some Islamic scholars have high interest to poetry and literature. They even have formatted their scientific researches in poetry for the use of the next generations. On the other side of aisle there are some Muslim schoolers with negative point of views against poetry and they looked at it as a down point for all Muslim schoolers، that is because either they don’t have that capacity to recognize the Value of poetry or they never had that sense and feeling to feel the beauty of it. The first view، while they respected poetry، they also considers it as one of the greatest way to transfer any kind of scientific، religious، and national messages to the next generation. But the second view، with an incomplete understanding and luck of that sense and feeling، have looked at any poem and lyric in a skeptical way، and have also considered it useless to engage with it. It should be also noted that both views have a Quran and hadith source. In this article، the argument of each sides had been examined and concluded.