plato basically says the same thing in The Republic, but there's
enough mitigating evidence to suggest that he only half-meant it.
There is probably plenty of counter-evidence in the Koran as well,
not least of which is the poetic language in which it's written.
At 7:47 AM -0600 2/19/07, mIEKAL aND wrote:
Just as I suspected...
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Stay away from poets. The erring follow them.
Qur'an 26:224 (Pickthal)
And the Poets, - It is those straying in Evil, who follow them:
Qur'an 26:224 (Yusuf Ali)
And as to the poets, those who go astray follow them.
Qur'an 26:224 (Shakir)
As for the poets, they are followed only by the strayers.
Qur'an 26:224 (Khalifa)
WaalshshuAAarao yattabiAAuhumu alghawoona
