Salaty, Abubakar AbdullahGbodofu, Khalil Muhammad Uthman2023-05-082023-05-082021-12MALAM Journal of Arabic Stidies(e)2695-2343/(p)1118-3365https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/9688Abstract: Sheikh Muhammad Nasir Kabara is a renowned Sufi scholar whose poetic works centre majorly on sufi background. He has composed many poems which are related to sufi among which is Al-istighatha; beseeching for help. His odes on Al-istighatha are numerous but the researchers chose his Taaiyyah which contains many literary styles, artistic features rhetoric patterns and full of poetic word. The researchers in this work critically examined the artistic features and styles that were employed by Sheikh Muhammad Nasir Kabara is this purposively selected ode which is of 72 lines of poem. The researchers adopted historic and descriptive methods for this work. The historic method was used to document the biography and works of the poet while poem was subjected to thematic and content analysis of qualitative research design using a descriptive method. This work was furnished with findings and necessary suggestions for further researches.otherالاستغاثة، النقد، تحليلية، قصائد، الشيخ محمد الناصر، الكبري، الكنويCritical Analysis, Istighaatha, Odes, Sheikh Muhammad Nasir, KabaraArticle