Ash-Shu'ara Verse 224

As for poets, they are followed ˹merely˺ by deviants.

As for poets, they are followed by the deviants.

And the poets -- the perverse follow them;

only those who are lost in error follow the poets.

As for the poets -it is the seduced who follow them.

And the Poets,- It is those straying in Evil, who follow them;

As for poets, only the wayward follow them.

As for the poets, only those who go astray follow them.

And the astray follow the poets.

As for the poets, [only] the perverse follow them.

As for poets, only the misguided follow them.

And (as for) the poets, it is the erring ones who follow them.

And the poets, (only) the misguiding/failing follow them

And the astray follow the poets.

As for poets, those follow them who are astray

As for the poets, the erring follow them,

They descend upon every lying, sinful one --

And as to the poets, those who go astray follow them.

As for poets, the erring follow them.

Only the erring people follow the poets.

Poets are followed by the perverse.

As for the poets, the astray follow them,

And as for the poets -- it is the misled who follow them.

And as for the poets—the deviators follow them.

As for the poets, [only] the perverse follow them, in their poetry, propounding it and reciting it on their behalf to others; they are thus reprehensible.

As for the poets, the astray ones follow them.

Ali bin Abi Talhah reported from Ibn Abbas that this means;

"The disbelievers follow the misguided among mankind and the Jinn."

This was also the view of Mujahid, Abdur-Rahman bin Zayd bin Aslam, and others.

Ikrimah said,

"Two poets would ridicule one another in verse, with one group of people supporting one and another group supporting the other. Hence Allah revealed the Ayah,
وَالشُّعَرَاء يَتَّبِعُهُمُ الْغَاوُونَ
(As for the poets, the erring ones follow them).

أَلَمْ تَرَ أَنَّهُمْ فِي كُلِّ وَادٍ يَهِيمُونَ

And the poets are followed as the exemplar or the model by those whose ruling passion conquers reason and they refer their course of action and way of life to the region of poetry or emotions and waste their days in vanity