Basra is an Iraqi city, established by Utbah bin Ghazwan in the year 14 or 15 AH. The Great), and Basra became the eye of the world, and the focus of knowledge and transmission, poetry and hadeeth, and the most prominent scholars, innovators, thinkers and philosophers of the nation lived in it and died there, and it was competing with Kufa in thought, language, grammar and hadith, and among the paradoxes that others may not know is that it embraces its land, the well-being of companions and thinkers And the poets, among them, the great companion, Talha bin Ubaid Allah and al-Zubayr bin al-Awwam al-Zubayr, and the tomb of Halima al-Sa’diyya, the wet nurse of the Noble Messenger, and Anas bin Malik, and the tomb of al-Hasan al-Basri, Muhammad bin Sirin, Malik bin Dinar, and other famous people of the nation and Islam, Basra al-Jahiz and al-Sayyab And Abu Al-Atahiya, and Al-Akhdar bin Yusuf Saadi Yusuf and Muhammad Khudair, and Kazem Al-Hajjaj and the source of poetry. Basra is not an abstract and dry history. Before, it is the Gulf World Cup, the eagerness to meet Common among the Arab brothers, coming from the depth of history, carrying mountains of love for the people of Basra, and many of them came on foot to confirm the magnitude of longing, as if they wanted to atone for sins they did not commit, a longing that they did not reach, and a meeting they dreamed of for decades, and here are the people of Basra as We promised them, and they promised their Arab brothers, they opened their hearts before their homes, and set up tents of hospitality, before the feet of the brothers set foot on the land of Basra, the porthole of the Arabs and the kiss of the lost. From allowing from its palm trees, performing ablution with the waters of Jekur and Shatt al-Arab, and praying two rak’ahs of love for the statue of al-Sayyab, here is Basra…
I can almost hear your lips singing I live and die in Basra….
