Poetry full of graphic beauty, rhetorical images and verbal decoration
A journey in the poems of Mohammed bin Rashid
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A distinguished evening, perfumed by fragments of the poems of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, the Jamal bin Huwaireb Center for Studies hosted the advisor to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid for Cultural Affairs and Chairman of the Dubai International Prize for the Holy Qur’an, Ibrahim Bumelha In a lecture entitled “Reading in the Poetry of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum”, during which it was presented by the Executive Director of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Knowledge, researcher Jamal bin Huwaireb, in the presence of a group of poets, writers and media professionals.
Statement and formulation
The poet and researcher Ibrahim Boumelha said that His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is a master of Nabati poetry, not only in the Emirates, but also at the Gulf level in general, and he has a large number of distinguished poems, which occupy a wide area of the Nabati poetry collection in our time. So that, through our acquaintance with the poems of His Highness, we can count him, without the slightest compliment or prejudice, as one of the most important Nabataean poets on the Gulf arena..and this distinction comes to his highness in two respects, the first in terms of the statement and the wording, as he was able, through his ability to do so, to be his poems on A level of graphic beauty, rhetorical images and verbal ornamentation, which give poetry taste, sweetness and delicacy. The poet Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid distinguished himself in this aspect of his highness’s poetry a remarkable distinction, presenting examples of His Highness’s poetry in this context.
On the meanings, contents and ideas presented in the poetry of His Highness, Boumelha said that this is of great importance in the poetic process, not less than the graphic beauty, and if we want to see the effect of this aspect in the poetry of Sheikh Muhammad, this is very clear in the poetry of His Highness, where the contents are highlighted in it. And deep meanings, thought, wisdom, proverbs and life experiences.
The beauty of the statement
Boumelha warned that through studying the poems of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, we stand on the distinction of His Highness in both aspects at the same level and possibility, so that the beauty of the statement and good rhetoric emerged in his poems, as much as the accuracy of meanings, depth of contents and thought emerged in them, indicating that they are distinguished The statement, the contents and the thought in poetry depends mainly on two important aspects, the first of which is the poetic talent of the poet, because by virtue of the influence of the talent the poet’s tongue is straightforward in his music and his tone and the paper of his articulation, so we can thus differentiate between the talented poet and others .. and the second is the poetic culture, and that comes from the extent of knowledge. On the poems of the poets, memorizing them, and benefiting from what they put forward in their poems in terms of thought and topics.
He explained that to demonstrate the second aspect, which is to read the poems of poets, memorize and benefit from them, which contribute to the formation of the poet’s queen of poetry. I remember an important story in this regard, as I, brother Jamal bin Huwaireb, and the late writer Farouk Shousha, were in a session with the sheikh. Mohammed bin Rashid during his stay in the Marmum area, and the conversation between us was literary, and the poet Farouk Shousha was surprised by the extent to which Sheikh Muhammad memorized many of the eloquent verses of Arab poets, so Sheikh Muhammad replied by saying: Professor Farouk, remember to me which of the poems of the pre-Islamic poets and I will complete the poem for you The poet Farouk Shousha was amazed at the extent of this memorization mentioned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid .. And for your information, Sheikh Mohammed preserves thousands of the verses of the ancient poets, and this is what enabled him to compose eloquent poetry with a degree of beauty and distinction, as these components, some of which I mentioned, contributed to The poetry of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid was distinguished, and his emergence as a great poet at the level of the Gulf, in addition to other elements that do not have time to address.
Boumelha added that whoever reads the poetry of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, comes out with an important result, which is that the poet, because of his talent, and by virtue of his knowledge of the poetry of others, and from what he added to that from his personal experiences, has created for himself a poetic world of his own, in which the poetry is distinguished His Highness is talent, statement, meaning and knowledge.
Judgment and the likes
Boumelha mentioned that the poet Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid presented in his poetry a large number of topics, judgments and proverbs, which he obtained either from his experiences and experiences in life, or through his readings and his acquaintance with the experiences of others, which reflects his positive impact and influence on the level of his poetry and its distinction. The poems of Sheikh Muhammad were adorned with a lot of wisdom and proverbs, which the poet formulated beautifully, and used them in their place and appropriate, which gave his poetry this distinction and beauty.
And the lecturer went on to say that Sheikh Muhammad is a nationalist Arab man, who was brought up on this approach from an early age, and he drunk it so young that he became part of himself and his being .. He is hurt most painfully by what is happening among the Arabs of discord, disagreements and rupture, and he is the one who wants them to unite the ranks, the word and the goal, while He sees how divided and torn the condition of the Arabs in their contemporary times.
Ibrahim Boumelha travels in the details of a unique Nabataean poetic experience.
Ibrahim Boumelha:
• Sheikh Muhammad is a nationalist Arab man, he was brought up on this approach from an early age, and he imbibed it when he was so young that he became a part of himself and his being.
• Sheikh Muhammad memorized thousands of verses of the ancient poets, which enabled him to compose eloquent poetry with a degree of beauty and distinction.
• The poems of Sheikh Muhammad were adorned with many rulings and proverbs that the poet formulated beautifully, and he used them in their place and appropriate.
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Ibrahim Boumelha said that His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has emerged in the poetic arena as a flirtatious poet.
Spinning occupied a wide area of His Highness's poetry, and this poetry was distinguished by tenderness, beauty, taste and sweetness, and with meanings, images and content that the reader enjoys, and saturated his hunger in this area.
Pointing out that the most beautiful poems of His Highness in this regard were with the poetess Arab Girl, who went with her and his neighbor in a large number of beautiful spinning poems between them, as these debates produced many poems.
Satire and lament
Ibrahim Boumelha clarified that despite the abundance of spinning poems by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, whoever examines his poems finds that the poet hardly neglects one of the purposes of poetry except his methods and wrote about it, except for one purpose that I did not confirm that I found an effect on his poetry, which is Satire, and he also departed from the systems of lamentation, except in a few of it that does not exceed the two poems, as I remember throughout his entire poetic career, for the poet Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, may God bless them all.
Records
Boumelha pointed out that the writings of the poet Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid and Prince Khalid al-Faisal were distinguished by beauty in terms of their formulation and meanings.
These debates that took place between them took on their literary dimension in the Nabataean arena of the Gulf, because they were between two famous poets, who topped the list of Gulf poets, and organized the most delicious and beautiful poetry.
Humanitarian issues
The lecturer Ibrahim Boumelha touched on the humanitarian issues in the poetry of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, as the poet Sheikh Muhammad interacted with these issues in his poetry and spoke about them emotionally and moving, like his poem about the mother, the one who came to Sheikh Mohammed complaining about her son who abused her and expelled her from his home She is the one who raised him an orphan, and worked in people's homes to raise him.
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