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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Essays On Ghadir 13- Ghadir in Literature The literature of every nation is like a mirror that shows the culture and ideas of that nation. The remained classical literature of every nation indicates the ideas and believes of them. The after Islam Arab literature has had a long history. However, an investigation over the main subjects provides some clear lines.

One of the main lines of Arab literature during the last 15th centuries, has been the subject of Ghadir -e- khum. The Arab poets, who have been the most educated people in every stage, have registered the event of Ghadir-e khum as a definite historical fact, and have discussed its effects and results.

The researcher scholar, Ayatollah Allameh, Abdolhossein Amini (1940 - 1980) in his valuable work - Al Ghadir has had a review over the Arab literature, with a concenteration on the Ghadir subject, and has gathered his findings in that 20 volume book. In this short essay we page through this book to see the position of Ghadir in Arab literature. The literature of other nations should be studied in another time.

For further information of the readers, we can add that till now only 11 volumes of the book "AI Ghadir" have been published, and we have taken in to account only these 11 volumes. In different parts of the book, the author repeats that in many classic and historical books, he had found many poems on the occasion of Ghadir - khum. However, since the poets were not famous, and he could not find any biography from them, he did not quote their poems.

This implies that the poets of the Ghadir event have been more than those narrated in this book. The AI-Ghadir collection, reviews the literature from the first to lih century, and studies the biographies and the works of 105 poets, who have paid attention to Ghadir event, and composed poems on this subject.

Some of them are: 1- !mam Ali Ibn Abi Taleb (p.b.u.h.), who in his poem affirms his decisive mastership (Imamat and velayat), and says that it was the duty of the Muslims to accept his mastership. (AI Ghadir, vol2, p.25)20 2- Hassan bin Sabet, the famous companion of the prophet (p.b.u.h) who was present in Ghadir khum, and at the end of the ceremony, by the permission of the prophet (p.b.u.h) narrated the whole ceremony in a long poem.