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Hadith: In Poetry is wisdom

Hadith: In Poetry is wisdom
Ibn Asakir relates, in his history of Damascus, that a person said to Jamil: “If you read the Qoran, it would be more profitable for you than composing poetry;” to which Jamil replied: “There is Anas Ibn Malik who tells me that the Blessed Prophet (s) said
‘إن من الشعر حكمة’

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