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What parts of al-Busiri's Burdah are rejected by salafis and why?

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Al-Burdah also known as الكواكب الدرية في مدح خير البرية is a poem of "imam al-Busiri" (the Muslim Sufi poet al-Busiri البوصيري whom studied the seerah of the prophet deeply and almost all his poems are praising the prophet()) which he wrote to praise the Prophet (). > The Burda is divided into 10 chapters and 160 verses all rhyming with each other. ... .Each verse ends with the Arabic letter mīm, a style called mīmīya. The 10 chapters of the Burda comprise: > > - On Lyrical Love Yearning > - On Warnings about the Caprices of the Self > - On the Praise of the Prophet > - On His Birth > - On His Miracles > - On the Exalted Stature and Miraculous Merits of the Qur'an > - On the Ascension of the Prophet > - On the Struggle of Allah's Messenger > - On Seeking Intercession through the Prophet > - On Intimate Discourse and the Petition of One's State. (Source: Wikipedia ) But this poem doesn't seem to find acceptance by the salafis (like Muhammad ibn Abdulwahhab, and modern salafis such al-Albani, ibn Baz etc.). Of course mainly it is hard to say they reject the whole poem, but they surely seem to have some objections to certain parts/rhyms/words of it. > The Burda was accepted within Sunni Islam and was the subject of numerous commentaries by mainstream Sunni scholars such as Ibn Hajar al-Haytami, Nazifi and Qastallani. It was also studied by the Shafi'i hadith master Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852 A.H.) both by reading the text out loud to his teacher and by receiving it in writing from a transmitter who heard it directly from Busiri himself. > > Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab]], considered the poem to be shirk (idolatory). (source Wikipedia ) Note that the hanbali scholars ibn al-'Imaad ابن العماد الحنبلي and ibn Hisham (who also was a linguist he called his "sharh": الكواكب الدرية) is one of many scholars who have written explanations and interpretations of this poem. In many countries, this poem is well known or in the worst case a few verses of it are popular (see for example these youtube videos: Mesut Kurtis or an-Naqshabandi ). Some Muslims -mainly sufis- especially recite it/them during the Mawlid an-Nabawi. My question is what rhymes/words/parts do salafis reject or consider as blasphemous or as words of kufr etc.? (I don't need a full list but examples of each kind of objection)
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Mar 15, 2018, 09:19 AM
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