Is Islam true?.

[Hax]

no is deserving of death bad? like make me jump off a building to rid myself of it bad?. LOl.

Yes, it's absolutely horrible.

Seriously though, no, but in order to understand exactly why these verses about poets are in the Qur'an is to assess the position of poetry in the pre-Islamic period. Poetry and magic were often conflated, and there was this idea that certain verses were inspired by the jinn.

In this particular region, these poets would often engage in improvised rhymed debates and they called out Muhammad to defend himself using the same kind of poetry. Muhammad replied by saying that the Qur'an was not poetry and that those poets that had challenged him would actually go to hell.

That doesn't necessarily tell us much about how Muhammad perceived poetry in general, which is a practice that continued throughout Muhammad's time (cf. al-Busiri's Mantle Ode) but how he responded to this very specific form of poetry.

[total relism]

Yes, it's absolutely horrible.

Seriously though, no, but in order to understand exactly why these verses about poets are in the Qur'an is to assess the position of poetry in the pre-Islamic period. Poetry and magic were often conflated, and there was this idea that certain verses were inspired by the jinn.

In this particular region, these poets would often engage in improvised rhymed debates and they called out Muhammad to defend himself using the same kind of poetry. Muhammad replied by saying that the Qur'an was not poetry and that those poets that had challenged him would actually go to hell.

That doesn't necessarily tell us much about how Muhammad perceived poetry in general, which is a practice that continued throughout Muhammad's time (cf. al-Busiri's Mantle Ode) but how he responded to this very specific form of poetry.

Very interesting thank you, I love this on topic stuff, will you join me? i would love to here some of your opinions/info on Muslim culture even. Koran islam etc.