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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud (born in 1913
- martyred on July 13, 1948), a Palestinian revolutionary and poet, was born in
Anabta. He wrote political poems, the most famous of which is “The Martyr”. He
participated in the 1936-1939 revolution and in the 1948 war, and was martyred
near the village of Al-Shajara in northern Palestine.
About him
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud was born in
the village of Anabta in the district of Tulkarem, Palestine, in 1913. His
father, Sheikh Mahmoud al-Anabtawi, was known as one of the poets of the
influential and graceful sheikhs. He studied elementary school until the fifth
grade in his hometown, then moved to Al Fadhiliya School in Tulkarm, and
received his secondary education from 1928-1932 at An-Najah National School in
Nablus (currently An-Najah University). He had met the poet Ibrahim Touqan
there, as he was among his teachers there, and his relationship with him was
strengthened as a colleague and friend. . The British Mandate government chased
him after the revolution stopped, so he migrated to Iraq, where he spent three
years. He entered the Iraqi Military College and graduated as a lieutenant
during the days of King Ghazi bin Faisal bin Al-Hussein. He also worked as a
teacher of the Arabic language in Baghdad and worked as a principal of an
elementary school in Basra, and participated with the Arab mujahideen. In the
revolution of Rashid Ali al-Kilani in Iraq.
When the situation in Palestine
calmed down due to England's preoccupation with World War II, Abd al-Rahim
returned to his country and resumed work as a teacher at An-Najah National
School in Nablus. In the year 1947, the Palestinian revolution flared up again
due to the issuance of the decision to partition Palestine. So our poet decided
to join the Salvation Army, and he entered the Balaa region in Palestine and
participated in the battle of Pierre Adass with a company from the Hittin
Regiment, and participated in the Battle of Ras al-Ain, and in April 1948 AD he
was appointed as a discipline commander in Tulkarem, then as an assistant to
the regiment commander in Nazareth.
his poems
He left behind a number of poems he
wrote between 1935 AD and 1948 AD.. They were collected by a committee of
writers ten years after his death, and some of them had been published in
Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian and Egyptian magazines. His collection was
published in Amman in 1958 AD, and it includes twenty-seven poems. What are the
most important books in the short old full of struggle.
In haste, we shed light on his
patriotic views, which he formulated in poetry and lived in life. He deserved
to be an example for the youth of Palestine in struggle and honesty. In 1935,
during a visit by Prince Saud, Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(King Saud later) to Al-Aqsa Mosque, Abd al-Rahim recited a poem in his hands
when he was twenty-two years old, in which he said:
O prince, before your eyes there is
a poet whose ribs are drawn together over bitter complaints.
Did you come to visit Al-Aqsa
Mosque? Or did you come from Diyaa to bid it farewell?
Sanctuaries are permitted to every
homeless person and to every homeless horizon four
And tomorrow and what is below,
there is nothing left but tears for us to flow and a tooth to knock.
Here, the farsightedness of the
young poet and his realistic vision of the Arab conditions, peoples and rulers,
become clear.
In his poem “The Martyr,” he was
about twenty-four years old. He portrays the martyr as he wishes:
I will carry my soul at my ease and
throw it into the abyss of ruin
Either a life that pleases the
friend, or a death that enrages the enemy
And Nafs al-Sharif has two goals:
the roses of desires and the attainment of desires
By your life, I see my death, but I
follow the steps towards it
I see my death without my robbed
right and without my country is the goal
It pleases my ears to hear the
clattering, my soul is agitated by the gushing of blood
And a body arguing in the desert,
which the prey animals of the wilderness squabble with.
From it is a share for the lion of
the sky, and from it is a share for the lion of evil
His blood covered the earth with
purple and made the fragrance of youth heavy
And he reprimanded his forehead,
but afar increased his pride.
And on his lips appeared a smile
whose meanings were a mockery of this world.
And he slept to dream the dream of
eternity and rejoice in it with the sweetest visions
For your life this is the death of
men, and whoever dreams of an honorable death will be
' '
The poet chose the full-length
rhyme, whatever the last letter of this wonderful poem, which depicts the death
of honorable men for the sake of the country. Enjoying the sounds of cannons
and the joy of shedding blood makes it easier for honorable people to die for a
great cause that they defend, which is the liberation of the country and the
preservation of its dignity. And in his poem (A call to jihad), he recklessly
says that death is a sacrifice for the homeland:
The sacrificial country called for
jihad, but my heart softened because of its excessive joy.
And I raced the breeze, and there
is no pride. Should I not sacrifice my country?
I carried my soul and my heart on
my hands, and I carried it only as my gear
March for the right struggle, a
fire pouring on the enemy in every valley
I am not lower than a people that
sits still and whose home calls out.
Abdul Rahim Mahmoud's poems
continue to express his love for his country and his determination to sacrifice
for it.
The poet Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud is
considered one of the few poets who gave their entire lives to their country
and associated words with action. The verbal and attention to graphic
formalities that we find with other poets who were affected by the follower
current, which preserves the traditional system inherited by the Arabic poem,
with a diversification of rhymes and the fondness of many poems that express
personal emotional experiences and social, political and human issues.
his family
In 1942, Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud
married Mahfouz Ibrahim Nassar, and they had two children, Tayyib, Talal and
Ruqayyah.
Books and studies about him
The martyr Palestinian poet Abd
al-Rahim Mahmoud, Jaber Qamiha.
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud, between
loyalty and remembrance, the poet Adeeb Rafiq Mahmoud, the poet Tariq Abd
al-Karim Mahmoud.
Professor Mahmoud Ghanayem's study,
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud: A Poet Searching for an Identity.
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud died on July
13, 1948 AD in the village of al-Shajara, at the age of about 35 years.
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