EBN HAJAJ

ABOU ABDOLAH, HOSEIN BEN AHMAD, known as EBN HAJAJ, the great poet and most famous Iranian born speaker, great scientist, author and literal man at the time of ABASIAN and ALEBOUYEH.
With natural wonders in his poems, created the satiric method in poetry.
He was born in SOUGH YAHYA area of Baghdad city. In later years, he mentioned about the said place in his poems, many times. He spent his childhood in his own hometown. And learned science and literature from the famous and great Shiite poet, the Rumi. Ancestors of ABOU ABDOLAH were among the court men and secretaries of ALEBOUYEH government. so he did so after growth and higher education and became a secretary in the governor`s court. But soon left his job and turned to poetry. with smooth temper and great and rich taste was able to make poems without any difficulty and in the art of poetry, became so much skilful, which only can be compared to AMROL GHEIS and MAHALHAL BEN VAEL. He was also famous in rhetoric and repartee.
He was one of those poets and great men, who were attracted and supported by the kings and court men without any need in their whole life time. In appearance he was, decent, honorable, dignified with frail body.
Once he escaped from the hand of his creditors, and then in reply to critics, he made this poem:
I escaped from my own area to another city,

While I was crying from hunger,

Some say, scoundrel fled, if he was a man, he would stay, instead of scape,
Don`t blame me, as I don’t see any mistake,
Is not true that, prophet took refuge in a cave?
Sometimes, he was contractor, and other time was tax collector. His duty was to collect the farm tax, from the agriculture fields, which were around FORAT River. At the time of ABOU TAHER, the minister, EBN HAJAJ was accountant in Baghdad. We know that, in early centuries, accountancy was a scientific and glorious job and was preserved for the great scholars of the religion. And EBN HAJAJ, who was in the center of the Islamic caliphate of that time, was repeatedly responsible for the said position. And this job showed the high value of his science.
MAVREDY mentions in the book of RULES OF KINGDOM: accountants should have these features: free, just, justice, expert, decisive, experienced, strict and fanatic in religious matters and aware of all certain prohibitions which is agreed by all sects.
This responsibility shows that EBN HAJAJ, was known for his faith and reputation.
RASHIDODIN VATVAT (died on 572, AH) says: the accountancy affair should be given to a religious person who is away from scandals and accusations. It was sometimes necessary for the accountant, to prohibit the rich owner from some work or order him to do a work.
So to do this important job, accountant must be from scientific or political figures.
EBN HAJAJ had great interest in poems and poetry, therefore he selected 6 persons to be his assistants in accountancy job, and himself was spending time in poetry.

Unfounded accusations:

What envy you have on HAFEZ, you lose discipline,
My acceptance and magnificent words are God given
EBN HAJAJ was fanatic in Shiite, and so angry about the oppression, that have been done on revelation family. He was attacking the enemies of prophet and his family in his poems. And was not afraid of those who insulted his ideas and poems.
After death, our sign is the word,
The fire of our caravan is word,
From it, our light will be turned on,
The identity of our ancestors is word,
Our value will be find out,
The light of our tongue candle is word
Probably, in 391(AH), EBN HAJAJ, was going to look after his farms in southern BAGHDAD, where he lost his life. According to his will, he was buried under the shrine of IMAM MUSA KAZIM (AS) (the seventh Imam of Shia people).
SHARIF RAZI (collector of NAHJULBALAGHA book), has written beautiful words about him:
who drank from the root of lion`s heart and by this way the righteous tree was grown in his root is just like the person who got milk from his own mother and has grown up.
I was not believing, so soon, nature will short his tongue.
Yes, I cry for that great soul, whose magnificent words were chatting with tumble meanings.
I cry for you, so that life also cries for your mourning, because from now on, I see the soul of life will be depressed and weak.
Oh the world, for the sake of his death,
You have to put the dust on your soil and tear your dress,
Oh, alas on that great sea, and tip finder mind,
And mealy-mouthing, and neighborly.