The four of us lived in a rather narrow room, with a roof that served as a filter in the winter for the rainwater received by the carefully distributed bowls and utensils. It was rented to us by an obese widow in her forties. She was a cold woman with a sharp tongue, but she did not increase the price of our rent, fortunately for us. ..
Then the fire came and consumed everything.
The objects... the rooms... the building... and even the fat Mrs. Afaf, who has a foul-mouthed tongue!
We were looking at the scene with sad faces. The firefighters, with their old equipment and their late arrival, were unable to save anything, and no one moved to help the miserable widow due to the ferocity of the fire that occurred through her negligence, as we learned later.
We gathered in the café at a small circular table to think about a solution to the problem we found ourselves in.
- “We leave...”
Siwar said it after a deafening silence, then Kahf nodded his head in support and said with a smile:
- There is no escape, there is no other solution.
While (Herbak) remained silent as usual, so I did the same. I trusted their opinion and considered him to be the decisive factor. He did not trust his personal judgments much when we were together, so his opinion was my opinion..
Was it still possible to add anything about Al-Mutanabbi, who filled the world and preoccupied the people, throughout these centuries that extended from his birth until now?!.. And did there remain a side of him that had not been studied, examined, and examined in more than one way, nor was it subject to discussion and debate among the fans of this great poet? And between his critics and haters?!.. Al-Mutanabbi is a unique figure in our literary heritage. His lovers, readers, and memorizers of his poetry are more numerous than those who can be counted, and it is too dangerous to clash with them without prior preparation and readiness. They have extensive knowledge of his poetry and many of the stages and details of his life. Their zeal in defending or attacking it is immeasurable. Therefore, the prior image is more binding. The imagined picture of him that they drew for him is too attached to the imagination to be discussed. Its relationship with national identity is more rooted and dangerous. This is what makes attacking him, for many, an attack on one of the nation’s “values and symbols.” But I am writing about Al-Mutanabbi after I spent two full years reading him, analyzing his poetry, and studying the details of his life in order to write a television series about him. Dramatic writing requires its author to penetrate as much as he can into the souls of his heroes in order to understand them, to imagine them in the situations in which humans might be, and to draw their reactions, with dramatic logic, as human reactions might be. All of this is within the framework of documented historical information.
We must contemplate the secret of Homeric creativity in the epic narrative. So Homer does not care about telling only what happened in his epic “The Iliad,” but he is more interested in presenting the context of what happened and depicting the world in which this event occurred. We find events covering the universe from above Mount Olympus - the snowy sky - to the depths of the raging sea and the burning forests, and even the depths of the human soul itself in all its conditions, whether good or bad.
The events also cover gods, humans, the animal kingdom and birds. So we are dealing with a depiction of a universal existential situation, not a passing individual event. We are faced with an integrated system in which all the features and various components of living things and things interact, so that in the end we obtain a poetic exploration of the universe and its working system.
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