The Holy Quran 26:224 — Surah Ash-Shu'ara

Arabic text

وَٱلشُّعَرَآءُ يَتَّبِعُهُمُ ٱلْغَاوُۥنَ

Translation

Only deviant people follow the poets (by repeating those poems of theirs that contain rambling speech and useless talk).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Those who go astray follow the words of the poets: the disbelievers would call the Prophet ﷺ sometimes a soothsayer and sometimes a poet. So [Allah] said that the words of poetry are mere flights of fancy and have no attachment to establishing the truth.

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