Repentance in the poetry of the prison poets of the Islamic and Umayyad eras

Abstract

Repentance is a human behavior, and a reaction that results in a person standing in the hands of God Almighty, asking for pardon and forgiveness, and this standing is accompanied by a feeling of remorse and brokenness, and signs of surrender to fate and fate, and an admission of error, a desire to escape from sins and the reality that prompted him to seek repentance, in terms of behaviors and actions Contradict the moral values, heavenly and social norms called for by the heavenly books and the prevailing tribal laws in society and others, when a person reaches a stage of feeling the necessity of returning to the path that leads to reforming the soul and getting rid of the torments of this worldly life, so there is only one door before him that he knocks on, which is the door of repentance ; Because he is fully aware that if all doors are closed, then there is the door of God Almighty, which cannot be closed in His face, especially since He is the one who said in His decisive Holy