If you want to fill your heavens with astonishment, and stand on the natures of people in differing opinions, the limit of contradictions: praising something and disparaging it at the same time.. and conquering the self and triumphing over passion, in exchange for asceticism, selfishness, and vulgarity.. and other contradictions; So write down what poets and writers wrote in the Arabic Literature Pamphlet; Poetry and prose about the good Ramadan.. You are, without a doubt, a cheerful soul, a cheerful face, a lover of Ramadan goodness, anticipating its goodness and grace. Therefore, the Egyptian poet Mahmoud Hassan Ismail will make you happy when he says, “Welcome to this holy month”:
I add, you are a solution to sleep
And he swore to live by fasting
You cut off a loyal answer
His shrine returns every year
Camping does not limit your father-in-law
All the land is a place for tents
You copied the rituals of the two guests when
You were satisfied with the hospitality of the place
And you started blocking the horses legitimately
Of benevolence, the upper order
That generosity is deprivation and asceticism
dearer than food or drink
And in contrast to this abundant outpouring of the gutter of certainty and contentment, you are not surprised by the self-conceited of poets and writers who targeted the month of goodness with satire, and they declared it publicly, and the two poets, Al-Hassan bin Hani (Abu Nawas), and his colleague Ibn Al-Roumi, both of them satirized Ramadan, and obscene in it. His satire, if the expression is true, then they expressed the one who followed her desires, and her aspiration declined, and what they wrote remained immortal in the pamphlet of literature, and their reflection on the “sin” of satire later did not succeed, with praise that they showed in the afterlife, fear of punishment, and the sincerity of the soul in satire was not erased from them either. The two stances impressed me.. Ibn al-Rumi, who says in a standing position:
If you bless the fasting of a people
I called for them to prolong the torment
And what a blessing in a long month
His day is the day of reckoning
He is the one who says in another place:
And see the crescent of fasting in the face of grace
Renewed Zahraa but yes ten
In the same way, its owner, Abu Nawas, was his Nadima in slandering Ramadan, when he says:
Oh, how many months are left? We are sick and bored
If the praise is mentioned for Shawwal, we blame you
I wish you had built and we do not covet that
And if it was possible for a month to be killed, we would have killed you
If curses rained down on him in this position, he would embarrass you when he takes the position of repentance and hope, and he says:
Work and initiate for you
And finish your good work
At your service, praise be to you
And the king has no partner for you
If his “repentance” is sincere, then he has led to a generous Lord, and a general pleasure.
However, the vilification of the holy month did not stand with Ibn Al-Roumi and Abu Nawas, as their companion, Bashar bin Burd, followed their doctrine, saying:
Say to the month of fasting, 'You slimmed down my body.'
Our appointed time is the rising of the crescent
Strive now all your effort on us
We'll see what happens in Shawwal
So see what he “threats” about the best of months? And only your imagination will let you down in what Ibn Burd prepared for Shawwal and after Shawwal of indulging in the destructive things, and extravagance in what was permitted and forbidden..!
However, the care of poets and writers about the month of goodness went to some of them to depict all its moments, from the time of the pre-dawn meal to the hour of breaking the fast, although the moments of breaking the fast received a greater share of attention, as it was evident in them from the moment of anticipation of the call to prayer, the arrival of souls to the peak of fatigue, and waiting for relief and joy. In the text of a hadith, “The fasting person has two joys.” Here is the poet Mahmoud Hassan Ismail, who returns to portray the scene of the fasting people’s anticipation of the call of the muezzin, saying:
You made the people at the time of sunset
Slaves of your terrible call
They also waited for the call to prayer as if they were wounded
He tortures them.. I call the doctor
And the necks were cut off by them, so they became farmers
Like a ride on a strange country
The toughest of people, you copied them
Faces cringed and degraded south
As for the Dean of Arabic Literature, Dr. Taha Hussein, he anticipated with his fluid pen what would happen after the Maghrib call to prayer for a group of people, so he portrayed them the most brilliantly by saying: “…if the sunset approaches, hearts beat, and the ears listen to the call to prayer, and the flavor of food overwhelms minds and dreams, then you see mouths turning and eyes turning. Between arrayed dishes and stacked cups, you control a man's heart and enchant his heart with what is filled with fruit and satiated with drink. You go and come back and invite the hollows to lead me…lead me and the bellies scream my cotton…my cotton and with the multiplicity of food items on the breakfast table in Ramadan, fava beans is the most important and the most appetizing item..»..
It is the case that the Iraqi poet Marouf al-Rusafi denounced for his wonderful composition, saying:
And the dumbest of the two worlds is a gluttonous boy
For his acumen, his stomach is defeated
Even if I could fast my life
I would have been silent, so I wanted to fast
But I do not fast as a people fast
They multiplied their food for breakfast
If the day is clear, they will be hungry
And they hummed if the darkness mixed
And they said, O day, if you make us hungry
The night from you is our revenge
And they slept happily
They may burp while they sleep
Tell those who fast to perform an obligation
This is not how fasting is imposed
I ask God for an acceptable fast, rewarded standing, and heavy work in the balance of truth on the day of the fullest reward, and happy new year.
Najeeb Yamani
