Ibn al -Muqafaa .. rhetoric in the pen and the tongue and a translator “Kalila and Dimna” | culture

The episode (7/25/1) of the “Reflections” program shed light on Ibn al -Muqafaa, who was born in Basra, the city of science and literature, in an Arab -Islamic environment, which is a Persian origin, arose on the religion of his father who was accused of embezzlement from the state’s money and struck his hand until I raised, that is, cramping, and Al -Muqafaa was told, and Ibn Al -Muqafa lived a time in the Umayyad caliphate, and when the state of Bani Abbas announced his Islam.

He wrote in the culture of the Arabs and the Persians, and I mastered the al -Fajali language, the language of the Sassanid Empire, and Muhammad Ibn Salam al -Jamhi says: I heard our sheikhs say that the Arabs were not yet smarter than the Hebron bin Ahmed nor the whole, nor was it in the Persians smarter than Ibn al -Muqafaa nor all.

Ibn al -Muqfa’i was Karim Al -Sajaya, a delicate sense. It is narrated that one of the honorable one day called him to food, and he said: God cherishes the prince, I am not a day for dignity. So he asked him about the reason, and Ibn Al -Muqafaa said: Because I am a miserable, and the dilemma is ugly.

Ibn al -Muqfaq did not obtain the degree of the Imamate in writing in his time except for the strength of his statement and led by translation. Ibn al -Nadim said: The people of the people are 10, and Ibn al -Muqafaa promised the first of them.

Ibn al -Muqafaa is the head of a school in the Arab artistic prose, and its style has no complexity or ambiguity, and it is based on mediation between the language of private and the public, so he was known for this easy -to -refrain.

He left several books and letters, including, “Little Literature, Great Literature” and “The Message of the Companions”, and his works are translating the book “Kalila and Dimna”, which is a prose masterpiece that was placed for kings and has a description of the pursuit and tricks.

Among the sayings of Ibn Al -Muqafaa: There is no good in saying except with work or in jurisprudence except with piety or in charity except with the intention, as he says: I have given me myself.

Despite the rhetoric of his pen and his tongue, he was only rarely organized, and when he was asked about it, he said: He who brings me from him, not his satisfaction and who satisfied him does not come to me.

The episode of the program (Reflections) also dealt with several paragraphs, including “stops”, which reported that the Arabs in the pre -Islamic era praised the mention of the war and sang their facts and proud of the heroism in it, but a group of poets turned to the bad side of it, which affects people in it from the disasters and what they obtain from the ravages, and indicates that the poet Zuhair bin Abi Salma called for contemplation of the results of the war, addressing the human conscience in society Jahili.