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How can The Qur’an’s Surah Ash-Shu‘ara (“The Poets”) be understood in relation to fiction and storytelling?
Reread it today and Sam Gerrans thinks it’s film and novels (though by that logic it would extend to songs and plays and video games and some social media).
Any thoughts? I’m asking because I wanted to write halal fantasy romance that promotes Quranic values and that may serve as a more appropriate alternative to what is out there currently (honestly there wouldn’t even be any crazy magic either but just set in fictional worlds because I don’t want to get involved with any politics of real world countries). But the last few verses gave me pause.
u/D1vineParad0x — 1 day ago