DREAMS

PROSE III
 A guest of all

• The writer enjoys the guest status of Ibn e

Musaad, --- means the guest of the entire

community

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 King Ibn e Soud and Jawhara
• immense number of women he has married and
divorced – misunderstood as labyrinthine
engrossed in endless pursuit of physical pleasure
but it was insatiable desire to recapture the
ghost of lost love- Jawhara
• Jawhara; beautiful with instinctive feminine
wisdom
• the king-Composed an ode to Jawhara
• Died of influenza epidemic of 1919,
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 King Ibn e Soud

He loved his father as few

men love theirs.

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 Dreams

• Dreams that were materialized

• The dream of the king Soud.

• The dream of the writer.

• King’s interpretation of the writer’s dream

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Chase followed by the dream
• King’s Chase of Ibn Rashid, followed by a
dream.
• An adventure at the palace.
• King’s poverty hindered the proceedings.
• The double-sided role of Bedouins and Faysal
AL Dawish
• Reform for Bedouins by settling them into
towns.
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 Ikhwan movement

The role of Abdul Wahab

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 Al-Hasa Adventure
• King was hesitant for taking such a risky step.
• Got inspiration from writing a poem on
Jawhar.- Attacked Al- Hafuf and conquered it.
• Istanbul tended to counter-attack but world
war broke out and the caliphate had to be
ceased.
• Coquered Hail and finally got the possession
of the holy cities.

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 King’s flaws
• King’s flaw--- keeping the Arabs away from the latest
knowledge.
• Arabs and the other Islamic groups hoped for the
implementation of Islamic rules but he was then no
more than a king.
• Enhanced the security but no civic sense was developed.

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 The Dream oh the king
• A dream has given insight to the king about
the writer.
• for a dream in which God's name was extolled
could not have been deception

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 King’s flaws

• Sent some young people abroad for the

studies of medicine but kept the entire nation
illiterate.
• Simple hardworking modest but let himself
and others around him inulged in senseless
luxuries.
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 King’s flaws

• Lack of modern knowledge.

• Even never let his sons to organize or establish
the system.
• Ten year… too long, for agricultural reforms

• Harsh to noble, civil chieftains.

• Whether he was Moses or pharaoh.
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