Sincere Preaching

adh-Dhahabi, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ. Iḥsān. Expert.

The English is machine-translated. The audio uses AI voices.

Preaching is an art in itself that requires a good share of knowledge.

It requires good understanding of interpretation and an abundance of stories about the poor and ascetics.

وعدته التقوى والزهادة،

Its tools are piety and asceticism.

If you see the preacher desiring worldly life and lacking religious commitment,

Then know that his preaching does not go beyond the ears,

And how many eloquent preachers have moved the attendees to tears at that moment,

Then they stood up as they sat down,

ومتى كان الواعظ مثل الحسين والشيخ عبد القادر الجيلاني رحمهما الله تعالى انتفع به الناس

And when the preacher is like Al-Husayn and Sheikh Abdul Qadir Al-Jilani - may Allah have mercy on them - people benefit from him.

الشعر هو من فنون المنشىء وهو كلام،

Poetry is among the arts of the writer, and it is speech,

So its beauty is beautiful, and it is rare,

And its ugliness is ugly, and it is predominant,

And its stock-in-trade consists of lies, exaggeration in praise, satire, similes, descriptions, and boasting,

And the more amusing it is, the more deceitful it becomes.

If the poet is eloquent, articulate, and bold in deceitfulness in his speech,

Insistent on acquiring gains through poetry, lacking in religious commitment,

He has indeed read the contempt for poets in Surat Ash-Shu'ara.

And it is rare among skilled poets to refrain from satire,

And perhaps it leads the poet to go so far as to disbelief,

We ask Allah for forgiveness,

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