The Holy Quran 26:225 — Surah Ash-Shu'ara

Arabic text

أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّهُمْ فِى كُلِّ وَادٍ يَهِيمُونَ

Translation

Do you not see that they (poets) wander lost (are distracted) in every valley (have no direction and tend to sway to the extremes)?

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The poets wander in the valleys of imagination: that is, whatever theme they seize upon, they keep on inflating it: if they praise someone, they raise him to the heavens; if they condemn, they gather the faults of the whole world in him. Proving the existent to be non-existent and the non-existent to be existent is child's play for them.

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