| Considered by many as one of the best and greatest Arabian poets in the 20th century , he was also nicknamed The Greatest Arabian Poet Contents• Learning was organized at an early age and even in his childhood he displayed an inclination for literature | It was early in his life when he first wore the clothing of a religious man and he participated in the against the British authorities |
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| His father and others planned for him to learn speech from and poetry from the works of | His brother Jaafar was killed during the of 1948, which inspired one of his most famous poems, He recited the poem at Haydarkhana mosque to an audience of Sunnis, Shia and Jews during the same month of the massacre |
" Then he worked for a short period in the court of when he was crowned king of and when he was still wearing the turban of a cleric.
21| He was elected head of the on several occasions | He began to read the by and the by , and collections of poetry |
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| So he dressed him in an cleric's 'Abaya and turban at the age of ten | Muhammad Mahdi read the holy Qur'an and did not memorize it at an early age |
His father, 'Abd al-Husayn was a religious scholar among the clergy in Najaf who wanted his son to be a cleric as well.
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