Complaining about Cruelty, Poverty, Oppression and Epoch in the Poetry of Hafiz Ibrahim

Complaint is interpreted as sufferings from the problems people confront with in their social and individual life and verbalize them in order to soothe their sufferings. Complaint is one of poetic styles in Arabic literature and has a wide field wherein poet's imaginations move freely. Complaints of the time are among the most important issues that Abbasid poets dealt with and therefore they were formed in that era itself.The art of complaint can be found in poetry of most of the poets of modern times. Hafiz Ibrahim, among contemporary poets, has an edge in this art. He experienced orphanage and suffered lots of problems in his life which have had enough influence on his spirit and made him complain. He complains about individual and social poverty. He complains about alien's attempts such as "Denshvai" incident, their plundering of riches and Egyptian's mistreatment and wars they brought in. He takes complaints as relieving his sadness and brings the epoch with different names in his poems. Complaint has very important place in the poetry of Hafiz. In other words, he is a flag bearer of the art of complaint in his era and has no competitor in this field.The subject aims to focus on the complaining of cruelty, poverty, oppression and epoch in the poetry of Hafiz in order to clarify those complaints and to refer their reasons. The methodology followed in this study is descriptive.