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the historians have mentioned in respect with Harun’s gifts to the singers who represented
mischief and dissoluteness at his time. Such an action opposes Islam that has made it forbidden to
spend money on all things made forbidden by Allah. In the meantime it opposes the Islamic
economy that has required the rulers over the Muslims to spent money on the interests of the
Muslims, their economic and scientific development, and establishing vital projects that bring
about the prosperity of the country.
Surely this excessive spending wasted the wealth of the community and paralyzed its economic
movement; it is one of the things Islam has made forbidden.
Yet another example of Harun’s wasting the properties of the Muslims is that which Abu al‐Ferejj
narrated: “Very beautiful and perfect slave girl was gifted to al‐Rashid. One day he was alone with
her; he brought out all songstresses of his house, and had breakfast. So the number of his slave
girls who sang him and the servants who offered him wine was two thousands. They wore the
best kinds of clothes and jewels. Um Ja‘far heard of that, and she became displeased with it.
“So she sent for ‘Aliya and complained to her of that. So ‘Aliya sent to her (a letter saying): ‘Do not
let this terrify this. By Allah, I will return him to you. I have [1] Al‐'Aqd al‐Farid, vol. 3, p. 258.
decided to compose poetry and to set melody and teach it to my slave girls. Therefore, send all
your slave girls to me. Clothe them in different kinds of garments, that they may take part in
singing with my slave girls.’ Um Ja‘far did what ‘Aliya had ordered her. When the time of the
afternoon player came, al‐Rashid did not feel when ‘Aliya suddenly came out of her room, and Um
Ja‘far came out of her room along with two thousand slave girls and the rest of the slave girls in
the palace. They were dressed in strange garments. They all sang the poetry ‘Aliya had composed,
saying:
“He is separated from me, and my heart is not separated from him.
“O You who have stopped associating with me, with whom have you “Intended to associate?
“Accordingly, al‐Rashid became delighted and rose on his leg, to the extent that he received Um
Ja‘far and ‘Aliya. He was too pleased that he said: ‘I have never seen a day like this day! Mesrur,
do not let any dirham in the public treasury. Scatter them all!’ The amount he scattered on that
day was six thousand dirhams. None has ever heard of the like of that day.”[1]
This is the excessive recklessness in respect with the properties of the Muslims and the
disobedience to the will of Islam and its precepts that has made that forbidden.
His Gifts to the Poets
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