A study of personality aspects of the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) in the Holy Qur’an and its comparison with the poetry of well-known poets at Islamic era

Abstract

With the emergence of Islam faith throughout the Arabia Peninsula, the Arabian poetry entered a new era. The poets who eulogized Arab tribes’ ideals at the Pre-Islamic Ignorance Age, at the dawn of Islam changed their direction to spirituality or the adoration of God’s saints, especially the Prophet of Islam. The poets who exalted and revered the Prophet and his superior qualities in their poetry were generally devoted to the Islamic faith and exalted the Prophet genuinely and from the bottom of their heart. Some of these poets include HissanIbnThabit Ansari, AbdallhIbnRavaheh, KaebIbn Malik and KaebIbnZahir which their poetry has been recorded in the history. In their poetry on the Prophet, such poets defended the Prophet’s faith and supreme intentions and mostly eulogized His proper attributes such as generosity, affability, patience, forgiveness, honesty and sanctity, divine mission and prophecy, etc. and they utilized illuminating verses of the Holy Qur’an in their poetry and founded the basis of their artistic work on the commendation of the Prophet so as to achieve their own perfection.