Words of war and peace In the Poetry of Abi Talib

Abstract

Referring the great and original texts are the pure source of Arab language to reveal their expression secrets as well as their lives' type and thoughts styles throughout poetry and prose. The poetry of Abi Talib (P.U.H), Sheikh Al-Sahaba ( master of fellowers), doesn't like any other one of his contemporaries poets due to its special characters, more over it is a historical document that dated and reveal the prophetic biography and the Islamic call conditions. He is of the few poets whose poetry is referred to frequently.

Throughout this research it appears clearly that Abu Talib (P.U.H) was the pioneer in using unique terms that the Arab lexicons do no mention, some of his poems are full of terms of certain semantic field; the single verse or couplet has more than one terms of the same semantic field, this indicates that Abu Talib (P.U.H) is a wide minded in the field of linguistics. His collection has terms used for one time and that is a reference of his rich poetic language. Using one of the contrastive terms without mentioning the other is another characteristic for the poetry of Abu Talib (P.U.H) .