Qais and Laila love

Qais and Laila's love

The love story of Qais bin Al-Mulawah with his night may be one of the most famous love stories in the history of Arabic literature. Colors and forms of stories and myths were woven around their relationship, and like other stories of virginal love, their relationship led to separation after Laila’s father refused to marry her to Qais for fear of scandal. Their love and poetry flirting with them among the Arabs.

The accounts differed on how this great love arose between Qais and Layla. One of the accounts says that they met boys while grazing sheep and livestock, and they grew up with each other until their pure feelings and emotions were brought up. And he shared the conversation with them, and on another day he was exposed to them, and he did not find among them except Laila, so she invited him to talk and he responded to her and a great love for her arose in his soul, but she turned away from him at the beginning of the matter, so he was struck by great distress and grief until she was kind to his condition and declared her love for him with verses of poetry It is said that as soon as he heard it, he even I faint.

Introducing Qais bin Al-Mallouh

Qais bin Al-Malouh bin Muzahim Al-Amiri, he is a poet of flirtation from the people of Najd. He was not crazy, but he was called crazy throughout history, Layla, because of the intensity of his wanderings and his love for his beloved Layla. The Levant, the Hijaz, and Najd, until one day he was found lying dead among the stones and was returned to his people. Ibn Tulun wrote a book about his news, which he called “Basit Sami’ al-Masamir fi Akhbar Majnoun Bani Aamer.”

Introducing Laila Bint Mahdi

Laila bint Mahdi bin Saad Al-Amriya from Bani Ka’b bin Rabia, the owner of “Al-Majnoun” Qais bin Al-Mallouh, was known for her love of poetry and her memorization of news and her narration, and after her father refused to marry her to Qais, he forced her to marry another person.

The poetry of Qays ibn al-Mulawwah in Layla

Dozens of ghazal poems and verses in which he expressed his love for Laila and his sadness over her separation, such as the poem (Isn't the night bringing me and Laila together), and the poem (If Laila's necks are many, so long), and among his most famous ghazal verses: