Studying Literature and Poems that Include Falsehood for Learning Language

18-11-2021 | IslamWeb

Question:

Assalamu alaikum scholars, i am preparing for dsc exams to get a teacher job. All dsc aspirants should have to study all subjects maths,social,science,languages and G.K also. But,in languages there are some shirk poems and immoral stories but,they also contains some good contents like grammer,vocabulary etc.we have to study them and write them in exams to get teacher job.i want to be a teacher and want to teach useful subjects to students. Am i permissible to study them while hating the content in my heart and not believing the falsehood in it.please reply.This job is necessary for me. Please reply .may allah reward you all

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

There is no harm on you in studying those stories, literature, and poems with the aforementioned purpose, which is to learn the language.

The scholars have been narrating in the past and present time the poetry of Imru’ al-Qays and other pre-Islamic poetry that includes the description of wine and so on, with the aim of learning the grammar of the language.

As long as you are aware of the falsehood of this content and you will study it for the aforementioned purpose, then there is no harm on you, Allah willing.

Allah knows best.