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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Al Nass Wal Ijtihad His Criticizing Poetry He was too sensitive, accurate in criticizing and understanding poetry and he had memorized too many verses of good poetry. Whenever he talked about a subject he evidenced his subject with chosen verses of poetry to confirm his opinion. Once he noticed my astonishment about his acute memory of many subjects of literature that might slip away because of his old age and his many public affairs.

He said to me: “This is from the age of youth but now I memorize something and after some hours I forget it.” He had a good faculty to compose good poetry. He practiced this during his youth but then he gave it up to the scientific subjects, to which he devoted his mind and pen. He permitted no one to narrate any poetry of his. It was said that he had a good poem, in which he had elegized the great allama Skeikh Musa Sharara. It affected people too much.

Sayyid Sharafuddeen was then in the first stage of his youth. His sense in recognizing poetic meters was so sharp that he did not mistake any of the meters even they were too near and this was due to his acute sensitivity and not his knowing of metrics. I noticed that from him many times. His generosity He was a high example of generosity of morals and hand (giving). His morals were morals of a generous Alawite man.

He respected the old, pitied the young, sympathized with the poor and pardoned badly doers. As for his liberality, he was an example of that throughout his life, which was full of great acts. This aspect was clear in him. It was well-known by his relatives and friends since he had been a student in Holy Najaf, the capital of knowledge and religion.

The examples on this matter were many but we mentioned here just a few of them: (36) Once he saw one of the students of the Hawza[^1] of Najaf in ragged clothes that did not fit a student of religious studies, who had to have a special dignity. He was in the yard of the shrine of Imam Ali (s). Sayyid Sharafuddeen put off his own cloths and offered them to that student and came back home wrapped in his aba. He was then in the first month of his marriage.

One day he entered the house and found that his family had served good food for an occasion. He took all the food to his neighbor preferring his neighbor to himself. Those, who were familiar with him, said that his mother accepted that from him delightfully and always prayed Allah to make him succeed.