Religious Reference in Al-Ghazzi’s Poetry: Reading of Selected Verses

The research dealt with the phenomenon of religious reference in Al-Ghazi’s poetry, relying on examples of his poetry, given the great importance of this reference for writers in general and poets in particular, with its two aspects (the Qur’anic reference and the reference of the Noble Prophetic Hadith). Religion is the cultural resource from which poets derive their ideas, as it is the heritage that established everything that was written after it. The research plan, according to our point of view, required that we divide it into two axes, which are (the Qur’anic reference and the reference of the Noble Prophetic Hadith). The poet has derived from this reference with its religious content everything that supports him in constructing the poetic text. The Holy Quran, its meanings, images and structures are the first source of Islamic culture, and everything else is subordinate to it, a branch based on it. It is also an arena for social and intellectual competition in its various aspects. It is the miracle that has no precedent or successor in the history of human spiritual life. It is the basic reference text that poets have been influenced by. There is no poet who has not quoted from its tributaries, and they have found in it material for their poems, as it enjoys a sacred aura and high rhetorical brevity. The poet, in his inspiration from the Quranic text, gives his texts semantic richness and opens up the scope for his poetic text to greater interpretation by the reader. The Quranic culture must be part of the poetic art that helps the poet express his poetic experience, so that the poetic style is closer to the understandings and minds of the people, provided that it does not deviate from the sanctity of the Quranic text and what is known, as this cultural stock is stuck in the collective memory of the individuals of the nation, so the poet tries to attract the attention of the recipient and enrich his creative text with it.