Tarafah Ibn Al-A'bd and His Outstanding Arabic Mua'llagah: Yahya Saleh Hasan Dahami
Tarafah Ibn Al-A'bd and His Outstanding Arabic Mua'llagah: Yahya Saleh Hasan Dahami
Tarafah Ibn Al-A'bd and His Outstanding Arabic Mua'llagah: Yahya Saleh Hasan Dahami
Abstract— This paper is an attempt not to claim to be men,while the beauties of that language flowed in theirveins
comprehensive in dealing with a poetic piece as one type and arteries” (Lewis, 2002, p. 142). Furthermore, Mou’nis
ofexpressive text in Arabic but a fair endeavor through (1978), comments that the purest portrait of the original
analytical evaluation of a poem. Thepaper is limited to a Semitic that developed in theArabian Peninsula is the
few selected verses of Tarafah ibnAl-A’bdMua’llagah. Al- Arabic language which indeed initiated as a perfect culture;
Mua'llagah is a representative of the Arabic language and it is not a mere tool of culture but a tool and culture together
its magnificence. It is a long piece of poetry cannot be (p.343). In addition to that, Faheem (1986), talks about the
examined and scrutinized in a short paper like this. The Arabic language saying that the Arabic language is the
study focuses with analysis on the first twenty-five verses language of human science (p. 200).
Tarafah's Mua'llagah. The Arabs of the Desert is people of bravery, at
The study applies an analytical and critical approach, alloccasions. Their adventurous mode of life makes courage
attempting to illustrate the influence of Arabic poetry as a central. Perpetual wanderers, they wander to andfro looking
means of the language and its glory. It commences with an for the required water-supply for their camping area. They
introduction presenting the importance of Arabic poetic are outstanding horseman; and, from the fourth centurytime,
language then it moves to give a suitable picture of Tarafah Arabs cavalry make its presence. When the sight of battle is
ibn Al-A'bd as a man and a poet. The researcher afterward reached,a rider would drop, and ascending the mount he
shifts to the main part of the study, attempting to bring a hadled, barebacked, to the spot. The “Arabic-Muslim-
paraphrase to some selected verses of the long poem. The speaking people were the major bearers of the torch of
work reaches its end by a recommendatory afterword. culture, knowledge, and civilization throughout the world ”
Keywords— Arabic poetry, Arabic tongue, Mua’llagah, (Dahami, 2015). See also (Hitti, 1989, p.557).
pre-Islam, Tarafah ibn Al-A’bd. It was from Arabia, then, that Arab poetry was to come; for
the lands were too much engrossed with commercial
I. INTRODUCTION materials, matters and kinds of stuff to give literature any
1. Arabic language possibility of growth. “Towards Arabia, from which they
History of the language literature as defined by Al-Hashimi brought gold, agate, and onyx, incense and myrrh, and the
in his encyclopedic book Jewelry of Literature in perfumes of Arabia; pearls, spices, ivory, ebony, ostrich
Literatures and Growth of the Language of Arabs (1969), is plumes and apes from India” (Seignobos, 1912, p. 81).
that science which searches in the language and its Thaif (1960), in History of Arabic Literature: Ignorance
circumstances – its prose and verse – in its various ages. It Age, comments saying: we do not reach the pre-Islamic age
is the science that explores its high situation and position, as that we talk about until we find the classical Arabic has
well as what happened for its pioneers who left touched been perfected and reached the summit of its development
influence in it (p. 3). Also, he defines Arabic language (p. 121). In addition to that, "Arabic poetry has always been
saying that it is one of the Semitic languages; it is the regarded as the diwan al-Arab (the repository of Arabs), a
ancient common language of the Arabs nation who dwelled resort in times of sorrow and happiness, of defeat and
the peninsula that took its name from them which is located victory, an expression of the Arab people's cultural ideals
to the western edge of Asia. “The sciences were transmitted and great aspirations" (Allen, 2000, pp. 65-66).
into the Arabiclanguage from different parts of the world; Furthermore, “In both religious and secular poetry, but
by it theywere embellished and penetrated the hearts of especially the latter, medieval culture discovered and