Najib Kilani

Najib Kilani
Native name	نجيب الكيلاني
Born	June 1, 1931 Egypt , Gharbia, Zefta
March 7, 1995 (63 years old)March 7, 1995 (63 years old)
🏳️ Nationality	Egypt
🎓 Alma mater	Ciro University
💼 Occupation
Title	Novelist, Doctor

Najib Kilani (June 1, 1931 - March 7, 1995) (Arabic: نجيب الكيلاني) is an Egyptian poet and novelist.

His birth

Dr. Najib Abd al-Latif Ibrahim Kilani was born on the first of June 1931. He was born in the Sharshaba village, which is affiliated with the Zefta district in the Gharbia Governorate of Egypt. He was the first child. Najib Kilani joined the kuttab village in at the age of four just like the people of the countryside at that time. He learned reading, writing, arithmetic, and some of the noble prophetic hadiths, the biography of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, stories of the prophets and stories of the Qur’an. His family worked in agriculture, he used to work with family members in the fields from a young age.

Education and Early life

He joined the elementary school, then the American Missionary Primary School in the Sinbat village. Then he went to the high school in the city of Tanta and finally joined the Faculty of Medicine in Cairo in 1951. After his graduation he worked as a "doctor of excellence" in the " Om El Masryeen Hospital” in Giza in 1961. Then a practicing physician in his village then he moved to work in the Ministry Transport and communications. He took over his work in the medical section of the Railways Authority, then he traveled to Kuwait to work as a doctor there. On the 31st of March 1968 he moved to the United Arab Emirates and spent nearly sixteen years.

In 1960 NaJib Kilani married an Islamic writer Karima Shaheen. She is Nafisa Shaheen's sister whose an Egyptian radio writer. He had three sons, Dr. Jalal, Eng. Hussam, and Lawyer Mahmoud. He also had one daughter, Dr. Azza.

He was characterized by a cheerful face, a sense of humor and great humility. He is the uttered preacher with an open mind. One of his sons says that he feels that his morals are similar to the Qur’an. Kilani sees the Creator in all his dealings, prejudices himself in order to please his family. His ambitions were not great in this world because he had a force of deep faith and humility. Kilani endured the pain of his illness without showing his concern and pain to anyone even the closest people to him. He was patient through the days of pain of hepatitis C and then the pain of cancer, holding on hope from God. He wasn't despair or meek and he was satisfied with the judgment of God and his destiny.

Kilani and Muslim Brotherhood’s organization

Najib Kilani joined the Muslim Brotherhood's organization call early in his life, as it influenced his ideas and beliefs, provided him with a lot of knowledge, religious and worldly sciences, and it had the greatest impact on forming his political mentality. Kilani began to get acquainted with the Muslim Brotherhood organization in the city of Zefta through the celebration that was held at Mit Ghamr to celebrate the Prophet's migration in 1948. The reason behind being around this group is that he found in them a new way of speaking and celebrating religious occasions. So, he opened his heart and mind to what he heard from them, and what caught his eye were the chants they were saying. As it was common - at that time - that most parties cheer the lives of leaders and prominent people in them. However, that night he heard a chant of another kind, he heard (God is great, praise be to God, God is our goal, the Messenger is our leader, the Qur’an is our constitution, jihad is our way, death for the sake of God is our highest aspiration).

Kilani described the lectures that were held by the Muslim Brotherhood organization as: - “The richest and most powerful of these centers in giving intellectual and cultural information. The Muslim Brotherhood used to set up a program full of various lectures, which included thought, literature, history, politics, economics, and health awareness. They were the link to all these topics with the bond of Islam, as they used to hold poetry festivals, Islamic theater, and sports. "

He was arrested more than once. After the Mansheya incident on October 26, 1954 where Abdel Nasser arrested many of the Muslim Brotherhood, brought them to trial and sentenced them to varying sentences, leaving their families without a breadwinner. Abdel Nasser's regime arrested all those who helped these families and brought them to trial under the name of organizing financing. Najib kilani was one of those who were arrested on August 7, 1955. When he was taken to the military prison he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment, but he received a health pardon, so he was released after staying 40 months in prison.

Works

Some of Kilani's works:

Novels

• His first prose work in the detainee was in 1956, he presented the novel “The Long Path” (original text: altariq altawil), which won the Ministry of Education award in 1957. In 1959, the Ministry of Education decided to include it in the syllabus for secondary school students.
• The novel “The Promised Day” (original text: alyawm almaweud), 1960, which won the Supreme Council for the Care of Arts and Literature Award in Egypt in the same year.
• A novel “In the dark” (original text: fi al'dalam) won the same award the following year, 1961
• The novel of “Hamza's killer” (original text: qatal hamza)
• “Hamidiyeh people” (original text: 'ahl alhamidia)
• “Kingdom of Balouti” (original text: mamlakat albaleutii)
• "Light of God" (original text: riwayat nur Allah)
• "Night and rods" (original text: layl waqadban)
• "Men and wolves" (original text: rijal wadhiab)
• "The story of jad Allah" (original text: hikayat jad Allah)
• "Processions of the free" (original text: mawakib al'ahrar)
• "Omar appears in Jerusalem" (original text: omar yudhir bialquds)
• "Turkestan nights" (original text: lialaa tarkustan)
• "Giants of the north" (original text: eumaliqat alshamal)
• "Mountain princess" (original text: 'amirat aljabl)
• "The Virgin of Jakarta" (original text: eudhira' jakarta)
• "Confessions of Abdul Mutagali" (original text: aietirafat eabd almutajalaa)
• "Abdul Mutagali's woman" (original text: aimra'at eabd almutajalaa)
• "The nightmare" (original text: alkabus)
• "Journey to God" (original text: rihlat 'iilaa allh)
• "Black banners" (original text: alraayat alsawda')
• "The Grape Queen" (original text: malikat aleanab)

Stories

• "When leaving" (original text: eind alrahil)
• "Our appointment is tomorrow" (original text: maweiduna ghdaan)
• " The Narrow world" (original text: alealam aldiyq)
• "Men of God" (original text: rijal Allah)
• "Fares Hawazen"
• "Tales of a Doctor" (original text: hikayat tabib)
• "The nightmare" (original text: alkabus)

His writings

• "Community patients" (original text: almujtamae almrdyi)
• "Islam and the Counter Forces" (original text: al'Islam walquaa almudada)
• "The road to an Islamic union" (original text: altariq 'iilaa aitihad 'iislamiin)
• "An Introduction to Islamic Literature" (original text: madkhal 'iilaa al'adab al'iislamii)
• "Islamic and literary doctrines" (original text: al'iislamiat walmadhahib al'adabia)
• "The horizons of Islamic literature" (original text: afaq al'adab al'iislamii)
• "Islamic literature between theory and practice" (original text: al'adab al'iislamiu bayn alnazariat waltatbiq)
• "My own experience in the Islamic story" (original text: tajarabatay aldhdhatiat fi alqisat al'iislamia)
• "Glances from my life, an autobiography" (original text: lamahat min hayati, sira dhatia)
• "Iqbal the rebel poet" (original text: 'iqbal alshshaeir alththayir)
• "Showqi in the passengers of the immortals" (original text: shawqi fi rukkab alkhalidin)
• "In the prophetic medicine rehab" (original text: fi rahab altibi alnubuii)

Awards

• He won the 1958 Novel and Short Story Prize

• Taha Hussein's Gold Medal from the Story Club, 1959,

• The Supreme Council for Arts and Letters, 1960,

• Prize of the Academy of the Arabic Language, 1972,

• Gold Medal from the President of Pakistan, 1978.

Features of his works

The departed writer Najib Kilani was able to prove that he is closely related to the reality. He stands against the other literature works, and responds scientifically to trivial innovations, through a serious life that was full of literary bids, as the scholar "Abu Al-Hassan Al-Nadwi" said.

He is known to be the only writer who left the novel outside the borders of his country, and toured it with many other countries, interacting with their different environments. He was with the revolutionaries of Nigeria in his novel "the Giants of the North", with Ethiopia in his novel "The Black Shadow", Damascus in "The Blood of Zion's Pastry", and “On Damascus walls”. In Palestine with his novel, “Omar appears in Jerusalem” , Indonesia in “The Virgin of Jakarta” and Turkestan in “Turkestan Nights” where in this novel he predicted the fall of communism more than thirty years ago. In general, if the writer does not have the ability to foresee and predict in the vicinity of the artistic vision, then there will not be welfare or good in his works.

Writers' opinions about him

Jaber Qumaiha said that Kilani has a deep sense of intensifying artistic beauty sometimes associated with ambiguity in some of his works. He does not forget his responsibility towards the reader, and his fear of falling into the problem of misunderstanding. He sees in all his works the strings of awakened consciousness, which make his fictional writings a special pleasure.

As Dr. Helmy Al-Qaoud said that Najib Kilani was unique in deciphering the spatial spaces and temporal fields in his work through his professionalism and hospitality with accurate analysis and miniatures. He was able to fill the space with the correct alternative. He is considered one of the most prolific writers. While "Naguib Mahfouz" comes in the second place in terms of quantity!

As Naguib Mahfouz said about him in October's 1989 issue: "Najib Kilani is now the theoretician of Islamic literature." This is because his critical sayings, and his novels and short stories that constitute literary theoretical features of their magnitude and strong evidence, which were reinforced by his studies on "Islamic Literature Perspectives", "Islamic and Literary Schools", "Islamic literature between theory and practice" and "Introduction to Islamic Literature", and “My own experience in the Islamic story”.

Tune in his poetry

Muhammad Hassan Abdullah says that all Kilani's writings has a faithful purpose, depth and transparency of a mystic that seems like a flash of thought between the lines. He is serious, deep and influential, and closely connected with the of people's spirits. He has the influence on the lives of his people, which he was one of its unique oddities.

Kilani's content in his poetry is not less than his stories and novels, as he is the poet of "fugitive hope", who possesses rhythm and creativity through his eight collections, which speak authentic art, with controls and goals, through the suggestive term, the divine tone, and the gentle touch of the rules of beautiful art.

Poetic stories

Kilani was able to employ many of the mechanisms of fictional art in his poetry, using symbol, mask, dialogue, narration and successive expression, flashback (remembering the past) and paradox, and the shots cut through the unique expressive shapes and contents. As Dr. Jaber Kumaiha says about his first collection of “Towards Sublimity” in 1950 when he was a student in high school. The last collection was “The Pearl of the Gulf,” which is an unfinished collection. Then “How I meet you,” “The era of Martyrs,” “Songs of Strangers,” ““The Grievous Sins City”, and “Immigrant”, and "The Long Night Songs."

He published his first collection of poetry while he was in his fourth year of high school, entitled: “Towards Sublimity”.

His poetry collection

• “Songs of Strangers”, (original text: 'aghani alghurba') 1963
• “The era of martyrs”, (original text: easr alshuhada')
• “How Can I Meet You”, (original text: kayf 'alqak) 1978
• Immigrant”, (original text: muhajir) 1986
• "The Grievous Sins City”, (original text: madinat alkabayir) 1988
• “The Long Night Songs”, (original text: 'aghniat allayl altawil) 1990

Social life

In 1960 NaJib Al-Kilani married an Islamic writer Karima Shaheen. She is Nafisa Shaheen's sister whose an Egyptian radio writer. He had three sons, Dr. Jalal, Eng. Hussam, and Lawyer Mahmoud. He also had one daughter, Dr. Azza.

Kilani and the media

His latest novels are the “Queen of the Grapes”, "Confessions of Abdul Mutagali" and "The story of jad Allah". Before his departure he left thirty ideas for thirty Islamic novels about the problems of the Muslim community, and wrote them down in a small notebook. In the days of his departure, he created the play "My Beloved Sarajevo", which readers and critics did not notice. No writer or critic has mentioned it yet. It deals with the tragic conditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and offers hope through the message of evangelization and purification carried by Islamic art.

Many of his fictional works turned into works of art, as the film "Night and rods" (original text: layl waqadban) about his novel "Night of slaves" (original text: Layl Al-Ubaid) won the first prize at the Tashkent Film Festival in 1964. In 1973 the novel "The Promised Night" turned into a radio and television series, a collaboration of Egyptian-Libyan production that was presented in Ramadan entitled "Yaqouta Epic of Love and Peace" (original text: yaqutat mulahamat alhabi walsalam).

Many of his works have been translated into English, French, Turkish, Russian, Urdu, Farsi, Chinese, Indonesian, Italian and Swedish.

Studies about him

• “Islamic Realism in Najib Al-Kilani's Novels”, author: Helmy Muhammad Al-Qaoud.

• "Textual interconnection in Najib Al-Kilani's novel “The Eternal Call”, author: Eida Al-Omari

His death

He passed away at the age of 63 on March 7, 1995.

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