The Forty Revelations

Looking at the world will not expand, will not be correct, and will not be complete except with a great imagination that comprehends what it sees and measures what is absent against what is present, what is possible against what is possible, and what the future produces against what has been in the folds of time. This is an indispensable ability for a worker, a scholar, a poet, a reader, or a learner. As long as some of us are ignorant of the extent of life, it is no wonder that they are ignorant of the extent of poetry. It is no wonder that it descends in the ranks of existence to a horizon below the horizon of those who overlook its vast, spacious expanse. We have seen the collections of poems of some poets, in which what is contained takes up a limited space measured by tens of spans, so where are the rest of the horizons of existence? Where are the strange feelings that differ endlessly in every stage of the souls?! You will not be able to impose it if you are satisfied with the worldly contentment of the poetry of limited poets. Let us understand the role of imagination in expanding the world and controlling it. We understand the role of correct poetry. Let us understand the role of correct poetry. Let us break down those dams in which the definition holders, whether rigid or imitators, imprison us in their hatred of imitation. Let us always remember that "the beautiful expression of sincere feeling" is a world that is not confined to a mold and is not bound by an example. Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad