The poor

Author's name: Mustafa Sadiq Al-Rafe'i

A prose book whose images are crafted from the pain of the human soul in the form of stories narrated by the author through Sheikh Ali, the Sheikh of the Poor, who recounts the tragedy of poverty and human deprivation within the confines of stories that carry many religious and social morals and sermons. In this book, Al-Rafei presents the philosophy of poverty, the details of which he formulates using the tools of literary eloquence we have come to know from him; for he is the creative one who views the tragedy of poverty with the eyes of a philosopher and the ink of a writer who transforms the tragedy of reality into a rhetorical image that transforms poverty into creative energy, placing poverty within pages of philosophical wisdom and literary eloquence.