An Analysis and Revision of the Arguments of Rulings Related to the Use of Poetry by Schools of Jurisprudence

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Assistant professor, Department of Shafe’ei Fiqh, Faculty of Theology, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the jurisprudential arguments of the use of poetry in the five jurisprudential Schools of Hanafiyah, Malikiyah, Shafiyah, Hanbali and Imamiyah. This article, via descriptive and analytical method, while inferring the views of the five schools of jurisprudence on issues related to the first rule of using poetry, its jurisprudential ruling in different situations, including while circumambulating God's house (Tawaf), in the mosque, as well as the ruling of arranging the Qur'an and the ruling of accepting the poet's witnessing, examines and presents various arguments and viewpoints. The result suggests that the obligatory ruling for using poetry is permissible, but in different situations, it has its appropriate rulings. The use of poetry in the mosque and in the state of tawaf depends on its meanings and content. Arranging the Qur'anic texts according to the jurisprudential schools of thought is religiously illegitimate, but arranging the meanings of the Qur'an, including its translation and interpretation, is religiously legitimate according to the majority of jurists of different schools of thought. Guaranteeing and adopting Quranic verses in the form of poetic order is also permissible by the majority of jurisprudence schools - except for the majority of Malikiyah jurists and some jurists of other schools of law. Haram (Forbidden) poetry causes the rejection of witnessing.

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Fiqh
Volume 30, Issue 0
February 2024
Pages 121-151

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  • Receive Date: 24 April 2023
  • Revise Date: 18 September 2023
  • Accept Date: 05 February 2024

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