Addressing Imam Mahdi in the Poetry of Sayyid Haider al-Hilly (Depending on the issue of waiting and mobilization)

Abstract

In contemporary Arabic literature, especially in the field of poetry, a modern type of Mahdist literature has been opened, in which writers and poets have introduced the promised Mahdi (PBUH) and explained all his related issues mentioned in the hadiths and Sunnah. Among the contemporary Arab poets who followed this approach is Sayyid Haider al-Hilly, the contemporary Iraqi poet who is best known as the “Na'i al-Taf”. His poems concentrated on addressing Imam Mahdi like waiting for the Imam Mahdi's reappearance, mobilization, and complaining for him (PBUH) about the problems of the Muslims and especially the Shia. His poems were characterized by describing the Imam and mentioning his special virtues. This research aims at studying the issue of waiting and mobilization for Imam Mahdi and the complaint of the poet and objection to the delay of the Imam's reappearance in the poems of Sayyid Haider al-Hilly in the framework of the analytical-descriptive approach.