Re: Qasida Burdah Shareef
Peace All
Personally I'm in two minds with the Burda Sharif topic. I pay attention to the words of the poem and understand it for it's poetic purpose and do not by any means apply it as a literal piece of work. It is a wonderful poem.
However, I feel it is a dangerous poem in that it is misleading to those who take it literally. Literal-taking supporters of it can go astray and literal-taking rejectors of it can push it's correct understanding supporters in to a position of marginalisation.
I am not happy with the story it comes with, there is too much mythology attached and surrounding it. That makes the possible supporters of it move further away from it.
The poem of the scarf is wrapped in a shroud!