A lonely man died in London, Nizar Qabbani, the Arab poet who filled the world with its east and west, and the controversy over his character and what he wrote for years, died away from his Arab homeland.
In an earlier interview with Nizar Qabbani (1923-1998) with the Syrian journalist Marwan al-Sawaf, Sawaf asked him: "To what extent can my house be burned in a corner and draw a painting or write a poem … I create art in the time of burning … ? Qabbani said: "Either the poet is part of history or not be … The Arab public turned into a political monster if you did not give him a political poem Aklk."
"There are poets in the Arab world who present to the public a piece of chocolate in their poems, the Arab audience no longer persuades chocolate poems, and I in my sixth sense I know that the poems of sweets ended … Either the poet is a time bomb with his hair or not."
This is how Nizar Qabbani lived as a bomb exploding with every statement or poem he wrote. In his famous dialogue with Marwan al-Sawaf, he was asked: "If time goes back, will he refrain from writing some poems?" "No … I have not regretted a word I wrote or said before."
Throughout his life, Nizar did not stop fighting, either during his writing of poetry in women or in political poetry, which began with the end of the 1960s, with the defeat of the Arabs before Israel in June 1967. Nizar says that his whole poetry was a "revolution" Nizar was also a revolution.
On the anniversary of the death of Nizar Qabbani 30 April 2017 A publication published on social networking sites reveals that when Nizar died, the imams of London refused to perform the funeral prayer on his body, as well as preventing militants who were in the mosque on the day the body entered the mosque, Social networking sites, and restored the crisis that occurred on the day of Nizar's death in London in 1998.
The daughter of the late poet Hadba Kabbani, in an interview with Husam al-Din Muhammad, published by Al-Jadid in London in a special issue on Qabbani (May 2018), reported that "there were people who tried Preventing prayer on my father. "
"When we went to pray for my father's spirit, we took it for granted; men entered the mosque to pray And we stand in the courtyard and accept the condolences to him Some tried to prevent us on the grounds that there are people The rioters tried to stop praying to my father, and this set a precedent, because after the people were upset, we brought the complaint to the director The whole said that these always come, and the fear of their riot made them continue to do something They want, and they have authority over every dead and disbelieve those who disbelieve. "
"There were incidents in front of my father, but when he wrote about my father's incident there was a discussion and an alert," said Hadba, who died in London in 2009 And then a well-known woman died, and some demanded that her family stand up to her as she did With Nizar Qabbani Nizar encouraged the incident of his death this sick woman to release the right to console her, She recommended that women and men accept their condolences, so Nizar would always start with Things, and the incident of his death also ended in such a shocking way. "
"When the body of the great poet arrived at the mosque, a group of bearded men refused to bring him into the mosque," the Lebanese daily An-Nahar told a close friend of Qabbani, who was among the mourners on that day. Which led to the dissatisfaction of the great figures came to the funeral, and the friends of the deceased and his family The intervention of several, led by the Saudi ambassador in Britain at the time, Dr. Ghazi Algosaibi, and was a friend of the late A compromise was reached to prevent the aggravation and order to pray on the body at the door of the mosque inside his sanctuary , While the people around it stood an extension Z courtyard of the mosque. "
A witness in his testimony denied hearing that one of the imams of the Grand Mosque in London had refused to enter the body to the mosque, "We did not hear that, and I do not think the imam might say what he said. , Noting that the Islamic Cultural Center in London supported by Saudi Arabia The Saudi ambassador was at the forefront of mourners at that time.
Al-Nahar also quotes the editor of Al-Jadeed magazine, the poet Nuri al-Jarrah, who was present on the day. The surgeon says: "The rejection was not issued by any imam of the mosque's imams, but by a group of militants who stood at the door of the mosque and refused to enter "They had authority over part of the mosque then."
In his testimony, al-Gosaibi, a friend of the late poet and his poetry lover, contacted the head of the Islamic Cultural Center at the time to tell him that what was happening was not acceptable at all. Mosque, and prayed for it. "
And published the news of the crisis in a Lebanese newspaper, the newspaper pointed out that "a number of militants have caused a fuss and objected to prayer on the funeral, and nearly threw out of the Islamic Center," and mentioned in the news the name of the Saudi writer Hamad Al Majid, director of the Islamic Center in London at the time, For years, Al-Majed wrote an article in Al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper in 2008, in which he denied the existence of a crisis during the prayer on Nizar Qabbani's body in the mosque of the Islamic Center in London.
Al-Majid returned and wrote an article in the same newspaper in 2018 entitled "The funeral of Nizar Qabbani in my pursuit". He said that he rewrites this crisis because "there are a number of readers who still think that during my administration of the Islamic Center in London in the 1990s In a manner that is directly or indirectly responsible for a fabricated event. Zaemoh, Afakoh, Maroujouh and some of them expressed, with deep regret, the media outlets of London that were known for their passion and chaos at the Islamic Center when the funeral of Nizar arrived at the center's mosque. Among the rioters, one of the items to remove his body and pray On his soul, imagine, and all this hyped up altogether. "
Al-Majid said in his article that "the worshipers prayed on his funeral except for a very few left after the Friday prayer and before the funeral prayer, and one of them gave a very short speech forbade him to pray on him. Nizar is optional. He did not want to pray and he went out gratefully, and the overwhelming majority of the worshipers prayed at the funeral of Nizar. His condolences were accepted by the people in the courtyard of the open mosque with a number of ambassadors.
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