In-common Poetic images in Islam & Pre-Islam Poetry of Hassan Bin Thabit

Abstract

  The poet Hassan Bin Thabit was affected by the Pre-Islamic 'Jahili' environment in which he had lived a long era of his life before he became a Muslim starting with the Migration of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) to Yethrib, the home city of Hassan.  This 'Jahili' era influence appeared in cultivating his talent and concentrating his vision towards the universe and people around him. One of those images was nature and its figures like the mountains, rivers, night and day, and others .., as well as the images of the animals which were mentioned in that poetry and became a rich resource to produce the artistic image, not neglecting the plants nature, including the trees, flowers and gardens the poet used in his themes of description, love  and satire. Then, those themes decreased, as the poetry had characterized with the voidance of themes of love, rhapsodizing about and mention of woman which the poets avoided for the new religion did not encourage such subjects that were so familiar in the 'jahili' poetry.

   So, focusing upon Hassan's Islamic poetry reveals the characteristics of the new religion spirit and teachings that represent the poets belief in the new Message and dedication and commitment to the new moralities. These aspects are the essence of this study including analyzing the poetic images due to the sharing based on two images taken from different eras.