Diwan of the poet Faeq Abdul Jalil

Author: Faeq Abdul Jalil

He is a Kuwaiti poet with many poetic publications in colloquial and classical Arabic, and his lyrical poems are well-known throughout the Arab world. His real name is Faeq Muhammad Ali Al-Ayadhi, born in Kuwait on May 5, 1948. He worked as an employee in the Kuwait Municipality and became famous by the name Faeq Abdul Jalil after his uncle who took care of him. He started his life as a painter, then turned to writing poetry and gained fame and widespread love.
He wrote several national and social operettas, the most famous of which is the operetta “Basat Al-Faqr” in 1980, starring the artist Abdul Hussain Abdul Redha. Many famous singers sang his poems, including Mohammed Abdu, whose most famous song was “Abaad” which was translated into several languages ​​and sung by several singers: Talal Maddah, Abu Bakr Salem, Abbadi Al-Johar, and others.

During the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the poet Faiq Abdul Jalil refused to leave Kuwait with his family and remained alone in his home until he was captured by the occupation forces on January 3, 1991, after it was revealed that he was the mastermind behind the production and promotion of short patriotic songs that were spread in occupied Kuwait. He wrote them, and they were songs that urged Kuwaiti citizens to persevere and stand firm, and chanted positions of rejection and protest against the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. He was considered the most famous Kuwaiti prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to the classification of the international newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat in January 2005. His remains were found in one of the mass graves in Iraq for Kuwaiti prisoners in the Razzaza Lake area near the city of Karbala. He was buried in Kuwait on June 20, 2006, in the Sulaibikhat Cemetery in an official ceremony attended by the Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Interior, and senior figures. Faiq Abdul Jalil is considered the first Kuwaiti poet martyr in the history of the State of Kuwait since Its independence in 1961.