Umaiya bin Abi Salt | Life and Poetic Career
Umaiya bin Abi Salt | Life and Poetic Career
Umaiya bin Abi Salt | Life and Poetic Career
Brief Life Sketch: Umaiya bin Abi Salat was one of the most popular poets of the pre-Islamic era. His date of birth is not known. He is thought to have been born in the second half of the 6th century in the city of Taif. The name of his father is not known. Probably his father was a businessman and lived a prosperous life. He was a relative of Hazrat Muhammad from his mother’s side.
Umayya bin Abi Salat was involved in business with his father from an early age and traveled to Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, and other neighboring countries. From an early age, he was thirsty for knowledge and curious to know about existing religions. During his travels, he met a lot of priests and saints in different places. He exchanged views with them with great interest and gained a lot of knowledge about religion. His writings show that he was a believer in monotheism and was a staunch opponent of idolatry. It is said that he wished to be the ‘last prophet’ himself and during his travels, he heard about the birth of the last prophet from the monks of Syria. But when Hazrat Muhammad was proclaimed as a prophet, he was deeply saddened. According to one account, he accepted Hazrat Muhammad as the last prophet and came to Badr with the intention of meeting him. At that time some Bedouin people showed him a deep well where there were some corpses of his relatives who were killed in the battle of Badr. He was very sad to see this horrific scene and lamented tearing his clothes with grief. After this, he returned home without meeting the prophet and died after some days in 624 AD.
Poetic Career: Only a few lines of his poems have been found and from those, it is known that his poems were elegant and he wrote poems on the virtues of morality, religion, benevolence, kindness, greatness, etc. His poems are mainly of three types – eulogy, pride of his clan, and elegy. There are some thematic and ideological similarities between the poetry of Hatim Tai and that of Abi Salat. One of his poems tells the story of the sacrifices of Prophet Hazrat Ibrahim and Hazrat Ismail.
His expression was simple, his word choice was beautiful and accurate. In some of his poems on religion, he used obscure words. 0 0 0.
Umaiya bin Abi Salt | Life and Poetic Career
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