Ahmed Al-Kindi, called Al-Mutanabbi.. Is he the poet of all times who closed the door behind him?

He filled the world, occupied people and inspired their passion for poetry, and his poetic verses are still able to be wisdom, proverbs, philosophy, and reference in language, linguistics, and even in jurisprudence.

He is the poet Abu al-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi, who since he knew Arabic literature that poetry is the Arab diwan was one of the knights of poetry and is still one of the most famous poets throughout the ages, since the time of the emergence of vertical poetry in the pre-Islamic era, before and after it, or as it was said that he “flee” from his time with his genius, He came to our time, he is the same in strength between praise and satire and between slander and violence;

For those who read his poetry to imagine that he is touching the ego that made him immortal.

So the question seems real: What made Al-Mutanabbi maintain this position in eras other than his own?

How different is the impact, strength, and statement of his poetry from other poets?

Although they enjoyed fame, it did not bring the same fame as Al-Mutanabbi, who was called by many titles, all of which lead to the greatness and eloquence of his poetry, as if he were taking over the whole reality and its universe.

 Manual abbreviation

He is Ahmed bin Al-Hussein bin Al-Hassan bin Abdul Samad Al-Ja’fi Al-Kindi Al-Kufi, and Al-Mutanabbi’s grandfather Ja’fi is the son of Sa’d, the clan of Madhhaj, and Kinda to whom is attributed to the locality of Kufa, not the Kinda tribe.

He was born in Kufa in 303 AH - 915 AD and grew up there, and died in 354 AH -965 AD, and he is perhaps the most famous poet among the poets of his time, and he is the most inspiring of other poets since the Abbasids, and he surpassed before him, and perhaps he is the only one who cannot collect the descriptions that She calls him, including the rare of his time, the wonder of his time, the wise poet, the pride of Arabic literature, the clever, shrewd and sharp in his poetry, and the early talent, as he said poetry as a boy, and composed his first poems when he was 9 years old.

construction and workmanship

What makes Al-Mutanabbi immortal even today?

The poet and academic critic Dr. Ammar Al-Masoudi answers the question by saying, “The completeness of the experience of Arabic poetry has matured and settled in a well cut off from sweetness by Abi Al-Tayyib; crowding in meaning, and variations in wisdom and intensification in workmanship. Art is an industry and a form of photography as these terms are managed in the blogs of our critics. The ancients who squatted and laid down the poetic rules.

This made Al-Mutanabbi “the heir to a nation of poetry, prose, mysticism, and the Qur’an that this clever master imbued with a glory that no convict could come close to, and he did not come close to, because the Mutanabbi poetic code is the crucible of revelation until it leveled deeply on the level of construction.”

And about Al-Mutanabbi’s workmanship, the critic Al-Masoudi says that his blogs “in which the idea or purpose is equal with the introductions and with the maqam. Al-Hawl horses are on the peaks.. Restaurants have abounded around the Al-Lukur).

Al-Masoudi continues, "If we read this verse in depth, examining the atmosphere of the article and the maqam, we would find that he did not use the metaphor, but rather he was carried away in the simplicity of the news, the ease of its absorption and comprehension, and it revolves between the usefulness of the news and the necessity of benefit."

Al-Masoudi believes that Al-Mutanabbi’s poetry is “a delicate art that brings poetry to the clarity of the idea and the essence of stylistic play, which provides the recipient with the opportunity to be astonished.” Rather, you find poetic reporting, and this is the pinnacle of poetry.”

The permanence of remembrance and the glow of meanings

Al-Mutanabbi is still the preoccupation of critics, as the more they read, they find something new, especially with regard to personality and being.

Academic critic Dr. Ali Hussein Youssef says, "It is not strange for a person to be a genius. Rather, it is strange for genius to be close to madness and at the same time be a reason for the immortality of the male and the permanence of influence."

He believes that this is what actually happened with Al-Mutanabbi, "No one doubts his genius and his intelligence, and he has not been preceded by poets like him, nor has he caught up with his example as well."

But Dr. Youssef may want to answer a question that has been repeating himself for a thousand and more years, revolving around the secret of Al-Mutanabbi’s immortality in the Arab memory despite the change in the norms of taste and the transformations of the culture of receiving. He says that “Al-Mutanabbi was not only a poet. All other stallions, and he was not wise, otherwise his name would have been included among the philosopher poets, and people would suffice with his affair.”

But Youssef takes the matter to other dimensions in the answer;

It is believed that Al-Mutanabbi “preceded his era with his awareness, as he was educated with the connotations of this word,” and the critic explains this culture as “represented in his departure from the prevailing and persistent intellectual and artistic traditions, to the extent that he was so proud of his awareness and culture that he claimed prophecy and represented vanity, arrogance and arrogance with confidence. and pride.”

Youssef recalls, excluding Al-Mutanabbi's arrogance that "he knew how to use his feeling in building his poetic experience so that it would be an expression of the human experience in general, so he was considered wise in this respect."

He also believes that the secret of Al-Mutanabbi’s immortality may be due to his “adopting a clear and unambiguous stance towards the ideals, and this was clearly embodied in his praises, elegies, satire and pride, making him, in this respect, a valid reference for those who search for their purpose in these meanings.”

Al-Mutanabbi, the resurrection of poetry

No one disputes that Al-Mutanabbi is an immortal poet who is still on the tongues of the people despite his resemblance to the prophets, but the people of determination sing of his generosity and courage, despite his miserliness and anxiety.

This is what the critical poet Dr. Hussein Al-Qased says about him “as if he looks at future poetry as old, rather as if he is standing at the end of time to tell us: I am the narrator who is speaking and the other is the echo.” He also says that he is the one who “shouted one day: That he inform me... that which time does not reach him in itself).

Al-Qasid believes that Al-Mutanabbi’s secret is that “with all his rich linguistic lexicon, his intellectual and philosophical aid, and his ability to acquire new ones, it is as if he closed the door on the future of poetry, and hid the key, so that he became the only past that represents the future of poetry, rather it represents the resurrection and conclusion of poetry.”

The critic also believes that Al-Mutanabbi "was created for poetry, so he was sincere to it and feared one of the other, and benefited from all the philosophy of his time, even if he realized the esoteric thought during his stay in Egypt, he drew a dangerous turning point in his poetry."

The question arises: Why did Al-Mutanabbi remain until now?

And he answers, "Because he is one of the only poets, and everything else is poets only."

The moderation of Al-Mutanabbi and his killing

Everyone knows the story of the killing of Al-Mutanabbi when he was returning to Kufa, and he was with his son Muhammad and his servant Muflih, and Fatak bin Abi Jahl Al-Asadi met him, and he was the uncle of Dabba bin Yazid Al-Awni who slandered Al-Mutanabbi. southwest of Baghdad).

But his poems and verses turned into songs, the most famous of which are (the horse, the night, the desert know me.. the sword, the spear, the stationery and the pen), and the critic Zuhair al-Jubouri says that “the most important feature in the uniqueness of al-Mutanabbi through the ages is his possession of the so-called (wasatiya), and by this I mean the time period that mediated between pre-Islamic poetry. And the Islamic before him.

Al-Jubouri believes that Al-Mutanabbi is “the son of an environment that speaks poetry, creates it, and works on it as a social, political and environmental discourse.” He added to the reasons by saying that “the issue of his uniqueness is due to his ability to intrude him among the people in his unique way and in keeping with every authority he approaches, in every country he visits or resides in. His issues touch our lived reality, the language in which he manipulates as he pleases, and his presence as an active voice gives the impression that time vanishes in every stage we live in, meaning that he is present with his poetry and his themes despite the great time difference.