Some Gleanings from Al-ilory ’s Poems: presentation, translation and comment
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2018
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Algeria Scientific Journal Platform (ASJP). University Mohamed Boudiaf of M’sila, Algeria.
Abstract
Human beings, throughout history, have made an effort to take
advantage of various methods of communication with the intention of utilizing
the knowledge of other nations and endeavoring to preserve this knowledge
for the coming generations. As the most effective methods of communication,
language has been employed to satisfy the very need of communication. The
predicament that may emerge as an obstacle in the way of communication
seems to be the fact of dissimilarity of languages throughout the world. In
today's world of globalization, communication between different nations with
different languages is feasible through translation01. However, Sheikh Adam
Abdullah Al-ilory was a literary icon who left behind a host of publications
written in fluent Arabic language on various aspects of life. These publications
have become areas of concentration for researchers from after his death till
recent times. Despite the exhaustive studies, few had been done on the
translation of his prose works, while very little or no attempt had been made to
translate his poetic works to the best of the writers of this paper's knowledge.
This work is a translation and comment on some work in Al-ilory’s Anthology
titled: Some Gleanings from Al-ilory’s Poems. Nigeria as a multilingual country
has adopted English Language as her Lingua Franca and this has won it more
population of speakers than the indigenous languages and other foreign
languages. Therefore, the Arabic language in which the works of Al-ilory are
written, denies the Non-Arabic users in Nigeria and outside the opportunity to
share from the didactic lessons taught in the publications. The present
researchers therefore conducted a comprehensive translation and comment
on part of the anthology, treading the path of the modern poets by placing less
emphasis on end rhymes in the bid to break every obstacle that could stand
against achieving the intended meaning in the poetic verses. The work reveals
that Sheikh Adam, in addition to being a prose writer was also a poet, whose
poems contain admonitions, evocations of Allah, elegies, eulogies etc. which
are worthy to be read by all and sundry. The research will fill the vacuum of the translation of Al-ilory’s poems and thus give Non-Arabic users the opportunity
to share from the lessons covered within the pages of the anthology