فلسفة أشعار محمود الورَّاق

Abstract

Mahmud bin al-Hasan al-Warraq is a poet of wisdom and preacher
in the Abbasid era but there is no information about his birthday in
history. He was born in Kufa and raised in Baghdad. He was
known by the name of al Warraq because he was a fee burner and
it was a career for him. He was called An Nakhas (slaver) too.
Imam Al-Baghdadi said about this: It is said that he was selling
slave. The poet al-Warraq died in the year 230 of the emigration of
the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim.
Warraq’s poems have been popularized in Arabic literature. At the
beginning of his poems, he took luck from fun and messing
around. But he abstained himself from and repented for that with a
sincere heart to almighty Allah and his poetry turned into
asceticism, tenderness, exhortation and wisdom. The poet Mahmud
Al-Warraq is considered the most prominent poet in this field. He
has many poems on various sides, such as monotheism, honesty,
sincerity, vilification of the world, knowledge and so on. Imam al-
Hafiz al-Dhahabi said on the poems of Mahmud al-Warraq: ‘a poet
and an excellent poem all sermons.’ Al-Khatib said of his poems:
‘More to say in asceticism and literature. In his poems there are
great points about human life.’ We seek to show in this article
some of his frightening thoughts in his poems.