| " became an icon of modern Iraqi poetry | |
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| It was early in his life when he first wore the clothing of a religious man and he participated in the against the British authorities | Considered by many as one of the best and greatest Arabian poets in the 20th century , he was also nicknamed The Greatest Arabian Poet Contents• He was elected head of the on several occasions |
So he dressed him in an cleric's 'Abaya and turban at the age of ten.
| After he left Najaf for , he went to work in the press, and put out a group of papers — among them Al-Furat The Euphrates , Al-Inqilab The Coup , and Al-Ra'i al-'Am The Common View | His brother Jaafar was killed during the of 1948, which inspired one of his most famous poems, He recited the poem at Haydarkhana mosque to an audience of Sunnis, Shia and Jews during the same month of the massacre |
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| His father, 'Abd al-Husayn was a religious scholar among the clergy in Najaf who wanted his son to be a cleric as well | Then his father sent him to great teachers to teach him reading, writing, grammar, rhetoric and jurisprudence |
His father and others planned for him to learn speech from and poetry from the works of.
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