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Our next question brother Usman from Goa, India

Mashallah Tawarakal, I believe this is the first question. I have answered from Goa

I've heard a lot about your district and I have not had the opportunity to visit

Your your beautiful lands. So brother Usman writes that he loves poetry and he writes poetry and yet sometimes what he writes in his

poetry is not real it is myth it is fiction it is fantasy so he's asking that is this something that is

permissible is or does it come under lying

and the response to this is quite simple that lying is to deceive somebody you say something and the other person

believes it to be true as for you saying something and the context clearly indicates that it is fiction or

it is a joke or it is poetry and the person is not thinking that you are speaking the truth the person

knows that you're narrating a story we're giving poetry this does not come under fiction in the slightest and

therefore for you to do this is in and of itself permissible and of course poetry as we are aware is the

default is that it is you know a little bit of it is completely permissible as long as the content is clean and

good as long as it is decent and encouraging as long as it does not take one away from that which is a

obligatory the Sahaba would listen to poetry and would recite poetry the Prophet

Allah who alaihi wa sallam would ask the Sahaba to recite poetry and he would attend poetry gatherings of

the famous Sahaba and he told Hasan Al-Anthabat to write poetry and poetry is known to be a little bit

exaggeration even in the even in the poetry you know of that time frame poetry is about

grandiose language and exaggeration and everybody understands that is the case so this is

not considered lying in the slightest and you are completely free to do this but once again just

make sure that the content is decent that it does not encourage a vice or an evil and that it

does not take you away from that which is a obligatory like the salah and Allah Azza wa Jalla

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