Qur’anic Intertextuality in the Immortal Poems about Love for the People of the House (peace be upon them)

Abstract

Poets in Islamic history occupy a special place, and a high status, because of their great influence on peoples of all groups, as they served as a loud mouth and a speaking media, conveying news and facts to society, and nourishing them with culture, whether that culture and news were true or misleading. A group of poets were lovers of Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them). Our Arab literature is still proud of this elite group of great poets, whose mention is associated with a number of wonderful poems that were composed by their authors and who excelled in their formulations. Thus, they represented an important position in the lives of their authors, so they were: the wonderful poems which was collected by Muhammad Abbas Al-Daraji in his book: (Immortal Poems in Love of the Ahl al-Bayt , peace be upon them), which became widespread and spread among the people, and still exudes Arabic literature with the fragrance of beauty and art. Immortality has been written for these poems because it expressed the human spirit, and the sincerity of emotion, the beauty of taste, and the sublimity of imagination, which was represented by the poet’s creativity in the visions he wove or expressed a truth, the dimensions of which were drawn by the imagination, nourished by the conscience, and extended into its flesh and warp were the heat of the situation, the splendor of photography, and the beauty of Expression of love for the Ahl al-Bayt (peace be upon them). Due to the lofty position occupied by the immortal poems in Arabic poetry on the one hand, and Shiite literature on the other hand, we decided to study these poems from the angle of religious intertextuality, to learn about the religious culture of its poets, as well as their ability to employ the religious heritage in their poems to produce for us these precious pearls in Shiite literature. Although the poets of the immortal poems have had their poems studied individually, our study is the first of its kind in the book (The Immortal Poems), so the title of our research was (Religious Intertextuality in the Immortal Poems in Love of the Ahl al-Bayt , peace be upon them). The research plan required that the study be divided into three chapters, preceded by an introduction and ending with a conclusion. The introduction fell into four sections: The first topic: defining intertextuality linguistically and terminologically.