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Abu Al-Ala Al-Ma’ari: An Arab poet, philosopher, and writer from the Abbasid era, famous for his controversial views and philosophy in his time. “Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Suleiman Al-Quda’i Al-Tanukhi Al-Ma’arri” known as “Abu Al-Ala Al-Ma’ari” was born in 363 AH in Maarat Al-Numan, Syria, and lost his eyesight when he was young as a result of his illness with smallpox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . He took the sciences of Quranic readings with isnad from the elders, as he learned hadith at an early age, and said poetry when he was eleven years old, and he left for Baghdad in 398 AH and stayed there for a year and seven months, then he retired from people for some time; He was nicknamed “Raheen al-Mahbeseen”; Blindness and homelessness. As for his poetry, which is a collection of his wisdom and philosophy, it is divided into three sections: “The Necessities,” “The Light of the Fall,” and “The Light of the Fall.” Many of his poetry have been translated into other than Arabic, as for his books, they are many, and they are indexed in the “Dictionary of Writers”. Among his collections are the book “Al-Ayek and Al-Ghosun” in literature, which exceeds a hundred volumes, “The Crown of Hurra” on women, their morals and sermons, “A’ta’at Al-Walid” in which he explained the Diwan of Al-Buhtari and “Hardharah” and “Hadhraa” and “Hadhirah” and "Chapters and Objectives". He embraced the doctrine of the Brahmins, and openly attacked the beliefs of the religion. He was a vegetarian, and he supported the rights of animals and forbade their pain, and did not eat meat for forty-five years, and he wore coarse clothes, and because of that he received a lot of criticism and slander, until the punishment reached the exclusion of Islam from him. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . He was defended by the dean of Arabic literature "Taha Hussein" in several books and publications. The most famous of them is "with Abi Al-Ala Al-Maari". He remained confined in his house until his death in the year 449 AH in his home in Ma’arrat al-Nu’man, and he recommended that the words be written on his grave: “This is what my father Ali committed, and I did not commit any crime against anyone.” It means that his father's marriage to his mother made him fall into the abode of the world. A large crowd of writers and poets of his time stood on his grave, and they lamented him with eighty lamentations.