Ahmed bin Hassoun bin Saeed bin Hamoud Al-Wa'ili Al-Laithi Al-Kanani (September 3, 1928 - July 14, 2003). He is a religious man and the most famous contemporary Husseini preacher and preacher among the Shiites, an Iraqi poet and writer who holds a doctorate from Cairo University. He belongs to the Al-Wa'il family of Bani Laith from the Adnanite tribe of Kinanah, and his lineage meets with the lineage of the Messenger of God in the grandfather: Kinanah bin Khuzaymah bin Mudrikah. His family was known as Al-Harj in reference to their great-grandfather (Harj). Contents 1 His birth and upbringing 2 His oratory 3 His poetry 4 His migration 5 His works and heritage 6 His death 7 References 8 External links His birth and upbringing Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Al-Wa'ili Al-Kanani was born on Monday, Rabi' al-Awwal 17, 1347 AH / September 3, 1928 AD. Since Najaf is one of the scientific strongholds of the Shiites, his upbringing in this area had a great impact on his life, as he combined the seminary and academic studies, as he finished his formal education in 1952 AD, then obtained a bachelor's degree in Arabic language and Islamic sciences after joining the College of Jurisprudence from which he graduated in 1962 AD, then obtained a master's degree in Islamic sciences from the Institute of Islamic Studies affiliated with the University of Baghdad for his thesis (Prison Rulings between Sharia and Law) in 1969 AD, then obtained a doctorate from the Faculty of Dar Al-Ulum at Cairo University for his thesis (Exploitation of the Worker and Islam's Position on It) in 1972 AD. He completed his post-doctoral research to obtain a professorship to study economics, obtaining a higher diploma from the Institute of Arab Studies and Research affiliated with the League of Arab States in 1975 AD. As for the Islamic seminary studies, he studied the sciences of the Qur’an and memorized its verses at the hands of the kuttabs by his teacher Sheikh Ali Qaftan in Sheikh Ali Nawaya Mosque on the slopes of Mount Al-Tamma in Najaf. Then he studied the introductions to Arabic and Islamic sciences such as the Arabic language and its sciences, jurisprudence, beliefs and ethics. His teachers at this stage were: Sheikh Ali Thamer - Sheikh Abdul Mahdi Matar - Sheikh Hadi Al-Qurashi. Then he completed the upper levels stage by studying the principles of jurisprudence, comparative jurisprudence, philosophy and logic. His teachers at this stage were: Sheikh Ali Samaka - Sayyid Ali Makki Al-Amili - Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Al-Hakim - Sheikh Ali Kashf Al-Ghita - Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Al-Muzaffar - Sheikh Muhammad Redha Al-Muzaffar - Sheikh Muhammad Taqi Al-Irawani. Then the external research stage by attending the jurisprudential discussions and the jurisprudential principles discussions of the senior mujtahids from the references at the time such as Abu Al-Qasim Al-Khoei, Muhsin Al-Hakim and Muhammad Baqir Al-Sadr. His oratory He ascended the pulpit at the age of fourteen until he became the dean of the Husseini pulpit, where he established a new school of oratory that was different from its predecessors by combining scientific research, influential oratory and literary poetry. He attracted a wide segment of listeners over three generations. He studied under the pioneers of oratory at that time, including: his father, the orator Sheikh Hassoun Al-Wa'ili - Sheikh Muhammad Ali Al-Qassam - Sheikh Muhammad Ali Al-Yaqoubi - Sheikh Muslim Al-Jabri - Sheikh Muhammad Al-Kashi - Sheikh Jawad Al-Qassam - Sayyid Baqir Sulaymon Al-Bahbahani - Sayyid Hassan Shabr - Sheikh Aboud Al-Nuwaini - Sheikh Mahdi Al-Badri. His poetry The poetry of Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Al-Wa'ili is distinguished by the magnificence of its words, the brilliance of its words, and the radiance of its introduction. He is very concerned with the elegance of his poems and the coloring of his poems with a luxurious brush. He is a poet with two tongues, eloquent and colloquial, and he excelled and excelled in both, and all of them are wonderful poems. Poetry flowed from his tongue in a smooth and difficult way, and he even improvised it. Professor Al-Wa'ili drew his pulpit poems with the brush of a specialized artist who is experienced in what the Husseini pulpit needs in terms of the level of smooth poetry that is acceptable to the public and literarily. His poems about the family of the Prophet were full of warmth and influence. Al-Waili has printed collections under the title of the First and Second Collection of Poetry of Sheikh Ahmed Al-Waili. Some of his poems, which varied in their content, were collected in his third collection called (The Rhythm of Thought), which were among his finest poems in praise, elegy, politics, and fraternal poetry. He also has a fourth collection of poetry in which he collected his poems about the Prophet (PBUH) and the honorable Ahl al-Bayt, and he called it (The Collection of Passionate Poetry in Love of the Prophet and His Family). Due