critical study of Ibn Abi l-Hadid,s poem, Al-ainiya

The 7 odes about Imam Ali by Ibn AbilHadid are of the most beautiful poems composed about Imam Ali. We have chosen “Aynie” from these odes to analyze, for it is sublime in eloquence and meaning. This ode notes the virtues of Imam Ali and then describes the accounts of Imam Hussain and then notes the reappearance of Imam Mahdi. The content of this ode has been extracted from historical Events and Imams traditions and is presented in a special style. To know the value of anything we have to analyze it therefore we have analyzed this ode from 4 aspects: Meaning, style, emotion and imagination. We have noted the merits and demerits of the poem by citing some examples that show meaning is often true and the style is powerful except some minor examples, emotion is simple and strong and imagination ,which is the basis of poem, has been used powerfully by Ibn Abil Hadid.