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Mutanabb4 from 337 to 346 A.H., was in the presence of SeifAl-Dulah Hamdani. During this time he composed six elegies totally. In five of these elegies, though there are plenty of nice and marvellous verses, one may say that they are not the best elegies he has composed, since Motanabbi deals with them as a duty not expressing his nice feeling emotion and heartache.
In these elegies he has taken refuge more to his art and interest than to his heart and feeling that s the reason why the reader feels discouraged.
But we should exclude the elegy he has composed to eulogize Khawlah, because he wrote this elegy when his separation from Seif Al-Dulah took long and caused feeling a great interest in him. Their suffering caused them to be in need of each other.
In this elegy he has relied on his intellect, esp. his philosophical one.
He has taken refuge to the popular philosophers in nations, and the verses are brief and minute so that they can be used in any time and place to condole and invite the people to patience.