وَأَنَّهُمْ يَقُولُونَ مَا لَا يَفْعَلُونَ
In these verses the imputation that the Holy Prophet is a poet (21:6) is rebutted. Three reasons given for this rebuttal are: (1) Those who follow and associate with the poets are not men of high moral character, but the Holy Prophet’s followers were possessed of very noble ideals and of very high moral character. (2) The poets have no fixed ideal or programme in life. They, as it were, wander about aimlessly in every valley. But the Holy Prophet had a very great and sublime mission in life. (3) The poets do not practise what they preach, but the Holy Prophet was not only the noblest preceptor but the greatest man of action and a model exemplar.