Islam and Poetry ☾✮

The poetry used to spread the message of Allah is the best poetry which comes under the category of ‘poetry containing wisdom.'

I grew up in an Islamic home, well my dad is Muslim and I grew up with him which automatically makes me Muslim. I use to wear the garments at one point in my life but I was bullied in school and was forced to dress normal. Since then I never really functioned as a Muslim but the belief was always there, I wanted to rejoin when I was 18 but by then Trinidad was infested with Muslim people joining the religion for the wrong reasons especially in the area where I live and my dad said he doesn't want me to rejoin and if you know anything about me what my dad says or wants my dad gets. #onlychild #daddyslittlegirl.  Well I like to write poetry and many times my Muslim friends (the ones i read my poetry for) and my dad would tell me that it is Haram ( an act that is forbidden by Allah) so i did my own research and what I basically got from my research is that poems sell people dreams it makes them fantasize on things that are not true and can't be obtainable and Allah doesn't like people who mislead others, some people also referred to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as a poet when he would recite the Quran and Allah said he is too high of a person (the greatest man ever lived, according to Muslims) to be a poet. 

But according to my research in Islam poets are acceptable if they preach the the words of Allah and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) which is understandable.

Now my opinion on this is that is that I like poetry , its my form of therapy so why should I stop ,and the answer is clear because Allah doesn't like poems that are not about Islam or portraying the religion in a positive light, but maybe it's not all that bad, I think people read into things a little to much hence the word "Extremist". I mean if I am not hurting or misleading anyone with my words then I feel like I should write what I feel, Who takes poetry seriously anyway? Like who? I can see people taking Rap music seriously and wanting that "lifestyle" that these rappers advertise and rap music is a form of poetry but maybe just like the extremist they are taking it a little to far. So while some of my poems may not be about islam I hope to not mislead anyone with my writing because Phophet Muhammed (PBUH) says ‘If the belly of a man were to be filled with pus, that would be better for him than being filled with poetry.”  Scary right and I do believe in Allah and his teachings and the Prophet (PBUH). What are your thought on islam and poetry? Do you think Muslims are being extreme or do you think poetry should be forbidden.

Now I wrote this blog to mainly introduce you guys to an amazing Muslim poet I found on youtube, I admire him because of his wisdom the way he put his words together and because of his style of spoken word, his pronunciation and  exaggeration of the words  he is truly a muslim talent.

The first time I heard him  was in a response to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY

Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word

The response: Why I hate religion but love Jesus

Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Muslim Version || Spoken Word || Response.

some more of his work: More of his work, talented poet

Response here