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Poetry for Arabs was not only a collection in which they recorded their diaries with all their humanity, but it often turned into a platform through which poets sculpted the contours of their identity and cultural affiliation, and this is the case of our late poet Sheikh Abdul-Ghani Al-Tamimi, to whose eulogy we devote our corner this week.
Death has been absent since the days of the poet Sheikh Abdul Ghani Al-Tamimi, known as the “Poet of Al-Aqsa,” whose poem “When Do You Get Angry” penetrated the horizons, preceded him to where he could not reach, and remained an ongoing charity for him in the path of the Palestinian cause .
One of the funny things I experienced is that I watched him recite this poem in three different countries: in Damascus (2006), in Beirut (2009), and in Istanbul (around 2012)... If we had been given a poetry evening when we met in Saudi Arabia, I would have heard it from him there as well. Even the director of one of the artistic troupes called me asking me about the author of the poem, and by reaching him he agreed to have the troupe perform it. So I contacted the sheikh and asked his permission to give his number to the caller, and he welcomed the matter, regardless of the caller’s affiliation, and communication took place, and I do not know what the communication led to. Later.
The sheikh and the humble big brother who gave all his efforts in serving his religion and his cause. I asked him during the founding conference in 2009 in Beirut of the Association of Palestinian Scholars Abroad, which he chaired more than one session, about his determination despite the apparent difficulty in his movement. He said what it means, if God wanted us to. To immerse ourselves in research, religious sciences, and poetry, as we find ourselves in the place and time of the Palestinian issue. But our presence in this circumstance is a test and a test from God, and we must live up to this test and live up to our Lord’s good expectations of us.
His famous poem, “When Do You Get Angry?!”, which he revised and expanded more than once, until it became longer and he issued it in an independent booklet..
So who is our poet?
He is the poet Sheikh Abdul Ghani Ahmed Mazhar Al-Tamimi, a descendant of the great companion Tamim Al-Dari, to whom the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, granted him vast lands in the Hebron region in the Blessed Land. He was born in 1947 in the village of Deir Nizam, near Ramallah.
He completed his university studies at the Islamic University in Medina, then moved in 1984 to Umm Al-Qura University in Mecca. After graduation, he worked at the same university. Then he moved to teach at Al-Maqdis University in Palestine, where he taught for two years. He then returned to Riyadh and taught at the College of Education for Girls and Saud University.
Al-Tamimi holds a doctorate in Hadith sciences, and is an associate professor in Hadith and its sciences. He heads the Society of Noble Hadith and Heritage Revival, Zarqa branch in Jordan. He is a member of the International Islamic Literature Association. He headed the Association of Palestinian Scholars Abroad for more than one session until illness took him away. He was a member of World Assembly of Muslim Youth.
His poetry is direct, like a legitimate ruling that does not accept interpretation or negotiation. For him, Palestine is a legitimate religious issue based on divine guidance, and humans have no right to negotiate it. Therefore, he is strict and resolute in his rulings and poetry, committed to his cause, as he adheres to the legal text, and is not subject to negotiation, cancellation, or deportation.
Among his books
are the book “Graduation of the Prophet’s Hadith” and the book “Rules for Authenticating and Weaking Hadith.”
In poetry, he has several poetry collections, including: “The Epic of Jerusalem,” “A Message from Al-Aqsa Mosque,” “Shadow and Heat,” “Innocence,” and a number of unpublished poems. As for poetic examples, we will suffice here with part of his famous long poem, “When Do You Get Angry?
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