Analysis of Ibn Husam-e-Khusfi's Seven-Color Perspectives on Imam Zaman (AS)

Abstract

The mission of religious poetry is to articulate matters of faith. Each poet employs a unique style and

method in fulfilling this mission. This article utilizes a descriptive-analytical approach to investigate

the techniques employed by Ibn Husam Khusfi in his tarkib-band (stanzaic poem) Manaqib-e HaftRang in praise of Imam al-Zaman (a.t.f.s.), and to explore the reasons for his choice of a sevenstanza tarkib-band format for this purpose. Initially, the aesthetic qualities and underlying semantic

foundations of the seven stanzas of the poem are examined; subsequently, a final conclusion is

presented. The findings of this research indicate that the poet, in order to express his profound devotion

to Imam al-Zaman (a.t.f.s.), selected a seven-stanza tarkib-band format centered on colors. In each

stanza, he has sequentially positioned the colors white, red, yellow, green, azure, violet, and black as

the refrain. In order of frequency, he has utilized alliteration, repetition, paronomasia.,

explicit metaphor,suitability,metonymy, attributive hyperbolic simile,

personification, detailed simile,poetic justification, (allusion), predicative

simile, iham (equivocation), comparative simile, antithesis, and paradox to articulate these central

themes in sequential stanzas: the illumination of the world by the light of Imam al-Zaman (a.t.f.s.), the

magnification of the religion through his struggles, confrontation with enemies and injustice and armed

struggle, the continuation of the path of the Prophet, Imam Ali (as), and Imam Hussein (as), seeking

their blood vengeance, and warfare and struggle against the irreligious, the eradication of evildoers, and

the Imam’s intercession for the poet as one of his true followers. Through defamiliarization, rulebreak