| " He said thrice emphatically | Who will believe aII this? "To buy" alluring tales may also mean that the person concerned adopts falsehood instead of the Truth, turns away from the guidance and turns to those things which can neither benefit him in the world nor in the Hereafter |
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| He has lived a lifetime among you | On the other, there are these absurd things, which are disastrous for his morals and he is expending his wealth to obtain them |
He plans to fight the Religion of God with the strategy that as soon as Muhammad upon whom be Allah's peace should come out to recite Revelations of God to the people, there should be a charming, sweet-voiced damsel giving her performance in a musical concert.
9| Don't the people know the way the sorcerers talk? Qadi Abu Bakr Ibn al-'Arabi has related in the Ahkam alQur'an a Hadith from Hadrat 'Abdullah bin Mubarak and Imam Malik on the authority of Hadrat Anas, saying, that the Holy Prophet said: 'He who hears the song of a singing-girl in a musical concert, will have molten lead poured into his ear on the Day of Judgement " In this connection, one should also note that the culture" of music in those days flourished almost entirely through the slave-girls: Free women had not yet become "artists" | Similar traditions have been reported from scholars like 'Abdullah bin' Abbas, Jabir bin 'Abdullah, Mujahid, 'Ikrimah, Said bin Jubair, Hasan Basri: and Makhul |
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| " Then he left Makkah for Iraq and managed to get from there legends and tales about the kings of Iran and Rustam and Isfandyar and started to arrange tale-telling parties to distract the people from the Qur'an and to absorb them in the tales | 'Abdullah bin Mas'ud was asked, 'What does lahv al-hadith mean in this verse? In the first case, it would mean: 'The ignorant foolish person buys this alluring thing and dces not know that he is buying a ruinous thing at the cost of a highly valuable thing |