According to buratha website, the competition was organized for Arab-speaking poets by the custodianship of Hazrat Abbas’s (AS) Holy Shrine. A section of the mausoleum has been allocated to host the closing ceremony of the contest.
The jury panel of the contest has selected 10 top Qasidahs in praise of Hazrat Abbas (AS) from among 93 poems sent to the contest from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Bahrain, Syria and Palestine.
The winners will be awarded at the program to be held on the occasion of the demise of Umm-ul-Banin (SA), mother of Hazrat Abbas (AS).
Invitation letters have been sent to a group of Iraqi and foreign literary figures, poets, intellectuals and cultural experts to attend the closing ceremony.
Encouraging the poets to create valuable works on the status and virtues of Hazrat Abbas (AS) was the main objective of the organizers of the competition.
Qasidah is a poetic form developed in pre-Islamic Arabia and perpetuated throughout Islamic literary history into the present.
It is a laudatory, elegiac, or satiric poem that is found in Arabic, Persian, and many related Asian literatures. The classic is an elaborately structured ode of 60 to 100 lines, maintaining a single end rhyme that runs through the entire piece; the same rhyme also occurs at the end of the first hemistich (half-line) of the first verse.

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