Forgiveness and repentance in Arabic poetry “Al-A’sha, Abu Al-Hindi, and Abu Nawas”

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Abstract

The research deals with three poets (Al-Asha, Abu al-Hindi, and Abunuwas) because these poets were known for their love of wine and the subsequent obscene and indecisive adventures that abound in their poetry and news.We read poems that reveal rebellion and transgression of the usual values, and various factors contributed to pushing them to this behavior, including factors related to the environment and upbringing, and some related to the way in which the human being was born, and when the human soul varies from one soul to another, and varies even within the same soul, it does not stay on one pace, so it is good and pure and malicious and evil The poet Al-Asha, who lived in Jahiliyyah for a large part of his life, and wine was not forbidden, but the vast majority drank it, but Al-Asha was fond of it and immortalized this love in his poems, and wine is the “mother of evils.” Al-Asha was fond of forbidden desires, and because of the wine, he postponed his repentance. He lived until the seventh year of the Hijrah, but he did not die as a Muslim, but died in the year in which he wanted to declare his Islam, and his soul, which was raised on obscenity and immorality, had an awakening, and it seems that it was as fluctuating as his fluctuating faith, as we have known. However, he wrote wonderful verses in praise of the Prophet, describing his endurance of the hardship of traveling and his longing to meet the Prophet, and mentioned the Prophet's qualities and his commandments of righteousness and faith, and that those who do not follow the Prophet's commandments will leave this world without a supply of food, and will be doomed to regret. As for Abu al-Hindi, he openly expressed in his poetry his love for wine and its aftermath, including his verses asking for pardon and forgiveness. Abu Nawas went so far as to address the greatness of matters when he dared to deny the constants of Islamic belief, denying the resurrection, heaven and hell, and the pressure of the grave, as well as indulging in immorality and obscenity; however, his poems are not devoid of remorse and requests for forgiveness, which we assume were written at intervals when he was experiencing moments of remorse