friendship and dissociation, both branches of Islam, respectively mean friendship
with the friends of God and enmity with the enemies of God. These two Quranic terms
have found greater expression in the praises and satires of Shiite poets, especially in
the Abbasid period due to the prevailing political and religious conditions.
Shiite poets expressed love and friendship towards the Ahl al-Bayt (a.s.) in the form
of praise and lamentation, and their innocence and enmity towards the oppressive
Abbasid caliphs in the form of satire and blame.
Debel al-Khuzai is also among the committed and loving poets of the Ahl al-Bayt
(a.s.) who has been able to portray the two matters of friendship and dissociation
in his poems in a lively language that benefits from Islamic hadiths and narrations.
In this study, the manifestations of reliance and self-denial in Debel’s poems are
described in a descriptive manner. The result indicates that Debel, by combining
emotional and epic language and linking it with religious ideas, citing hadiths and
the Quran, and relying on the principle of guardianship, has displayed his true
reliance on the Ahl al-Bayt (a.s.) in his dynamic and beautiful poems.
He has been able to express his heartfelt reliance, which stems from the reliance on
the Ahl al-Bayt (a.s.), with his biting and effective satires about the Abbasids and
the enemies of the Shias.
In his poems, while expressing reliance and self-denial, by praising and lamenting
the Ahl al-Bayt (a.s.) and their virtues, and on the other hand by condemning the
characteristics of their enemies, Debel has fulfilled the two duties of enjoining good
and forbidding evil, which in itself leads to the reform of the Islamic society