Karbala in Al-Ohsary’s Poetry

Imad Abdulsalam Raoof, Prof.

	Karbala in Al-Ohsary’s Poetry
AL-SSBET JORNAL
Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 39-50
Author
Prof. Imad Abdulsalam Raoof
Abstract
Abstract Hussein Bin Ali Al-Oshary is a poet, a scientist and a writer. His family is from the village Oshara which lies on Al-Khabour river. He was born and lived in Baghdad, got his education with the great thinkers there and he was obviously talented. He overcame his peers in science and literature and had written significant literary works on different kinds of sciences. In spite of that, his life was not only happy but also full of despair. He received a severe treatment from the rulers at that time and couldn’t get what he really deserved. He couldn’t either earn much and depended only on what he photocopied to earn his living which was the job of those who couldn’t find a job. When Suleiman Bash, the great, took over authority, he took care of Al-Oshary and appointed him the judge of the city of Al-Basrah in 1194 Hijri where he stayed till he died in 1202 H. Most of Al-Oshary’s poems were full of revolutionary attitudes against the hard circumstances at that time and the rulers’ cruelty. His poems also contained messages to the Heads of the tribes calling for revolution and some poems can be considered as if they are political publishes. He used to go to the holy shrines and uttered his poems there, and people copied them. That is why his poems had spread among people. Although he had written many poems, a lot had been lost during his life, then he had collected what he could and made a collection. The researcher has found some copies of this collection can be found in Baghdad, Najaf and Al-Basrah and, with the assistance of the late poet Haj Waleed Al-Aadhamy, published a collection of Al-Oshary’s poems of about (654) pages in 1977. Al-Oshary collection of poems is full of poems that praise the Prophet Mohammed and his family specifically Imam Al-Hussein (peace be upon them). The citation of those poems was in 1180, 1181, 1182 and 1183 which refer to a period part of Al-Oshary’s life when he was suffering a lot and was insurgent. It is obvious that he found in lament and condemnation of his revolution a reflection of his feelings of self-denial. He himself declared in the introduction of his poems that he was writing them while he was visiting Al-Imam Hussein’s holy shrine. Those poems were considered masterpieces of his poetry, besides he described some places of Karbala, especially the palaces, pigeons and so on in his poems.

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