THE EFFECTS OF MOHAMMAD ABDU'S OPINIONS ON HAFIZ IBRAHIM'S SOCIAL POEMS

Hafiz Ibrahim is one of the famous Egyptian poets. Hafiz's social poems were largely influenced by Sheikh Mohammad Abdu. These effects are often displayed in the fields of politics, education and rights of woman and their defense. In the field of politics too, like Abdu, he believes in reform and theory with tranquility and away from excessiveness. In his poems, he follows up compromise manner with British especially Lord Cromer. However, Sheikh Abdu's death seems to affect this policy. To Hafiz, the greatest agony of a society is corruption and lack of people's knowledge. To him, the foremost thing to promote a society is acquisition of knowledge and purification of soul. He considers education as the right of women. In other words, he believes women reform means the reform of the society, but adds that women should be bound to house-keeping. He also opposes excessive restriction upon women. In the present research, authors try to highlight those items and make a comparison of Hafiz's poems with the Mohammad Abdu's opinion so as to clarify the effects.