The relief of the distress in praising the master of the nation

They said about Al-Bardiu: A great leap in poetry on the tongue of Mahmoud Pasha Sami Al-Bardiu, for he is the one who returned Arabic poetry to its most fragrant days, until he resembled Al-Sharif Al-Radi in the grandeur of poetry, the firmness of the weave, and the strength of speech. He did not fall behind the advanced poets in any of the demands of poetry. He waxed poetic as they waxed, described as they described, stood in the lands, wept over separation and stones, praised as they praised but with purpose and fairness, and criticized as they criticized but without vulgarity or excess. He reproached friends but without deficiency, complained of time but without humiliation, and surpassed them with his mastery of the arts of meanings, which the new civilization has manifested, and with his descriptions of inventions brought forth by modern science. The summary of Arab literature history, Lotfi Hussein and a group of scholars (p. 187) And Al-Bardiu’s poetry is distinguished by the grandeur of speech, the eloquence of expression, the power of composition, the solidity of rhyme, and the brilliance of the prologue, to the extent that it can be said without hesitation: no one after the second Abbasid era has excelled Al-Bardiu in this field or matched him. He opposed the giants of poets from the past and traversed their domain, never falling short of them nor lagging behind. The detailed history of Arab literature, by Abdulaziz Al-Bushri and a group of scholars (2/242) If Ma’ruf Al-Qays has the merit of paving the way for poetry and Bashar for elevating and refining it, then Al-Bardiu has all the credit for reviving and renewing it… Al-Bardiu recounted the poetry of Ibn Al-Mu’tazz, Abu Firas, Al-Radi, Al-Tughra’i, and similar giants, so it was inscribed on the tablet of his heart, engraved in his mind’s page, and he experienced a flood of feelings and sound taste. From the collection of those styles, he extracted his own clear and majestic style. Therefore, when you read a poem of his composition, you feel that the spirits of those giants hover around his soul and soar above his verses. History of Arab literature, by Ahmed Hassan Al-Zayyat (p. 475)