REMINISCENCE AND CRISIS OF HUMANITY IN AHMED MIQDAD'S POETRY, Author - Dr. Manoranjan Das

REMINISCENCE AND CRISIS OF HUMANITY IN AHMED MIQDAD'S POETRY

Dr. Manoranjan Das
E: manoranjandas20018@ gmail.com

      It is authentically saying that Ahmed Miqdad of Palestine accelerates his idea that reminiscence and the crisis of humanity intersect when collective or individual memory looks backward to cope with a modern world that feels unstable, hyper-rationalized, or ecologically strained and, while personal reminiscence helps restore identity and meaning, humanity faces an overarching existential crisis rooted in alienation, technological overload, and a loss of traditional values. He confirms his idea through poetry that remenisiscence sparks with the glamour around the glittering of nature.
Thus, he writes,

'The Burning Reminiscence'
When I look the sparkling stars
Through the clear dark sky
I see the glamorous faces
Of the list beloved
Who left without Farewell
I see them flying around the moon
Like glittering butterflies
I smell their scent
From the coming winds of the north.'1

         He, the great poet endows that the function of reminiscence carries the identity of formation through  the brain that relies on a period called the reminiscence bump to anchor personal identity and emotional response, and, the
psychological healing where reminiscence therapy uses past sensory triggers—like old photos or music—to reduce depression and build life coherence. He adhers that remenesece is the stream which is sweetened about.
Thus, it may be added,

'Remenesence is the only paradise  out of which we can not be driven away.'2

        He has a mode to  looking back that helps individuals integrate past hardships into a stable present self, and, modern rationalism and technocratic progress have outplaced our spiritual and moral development, leaving a vacuum of purpose. He has the belongings with ongoing silence which is oppressed to burning.Thus, he writes,
'That carry their belongings to the beloved
I feel their ongoing tears
During the silent nights
Like the cold dew drops.
I hear their wailing
While I'm sitting alone
About the waves shed their tears
On the beach of homeless
To carve the scars of the oppressed
On the saltry sands
To revive the burning reminiscence.'3

        Ahmed Miqdad is a Palestinian poet, teacher and activist. He was born on December 15, 1985, in Gaza city. He is a B.A. in English and a Master of Education. His literary journey began in 2024. Ahmed is the author of four collections of poetry ( Gaza Narrates Poetry, 2014), Stolen Lives, 2015, and When Hope is Not Enough, 2019, and a novel , Falastin : The Hope of Tomorrow, 2018. Thev
latest Poetry collection is The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza,2024. His poems have been featured in different anthologies like, ' The Unsilenced,' 2025. He is an awardee of Nazi Namaan Literary Prizes, 2025 in creativity and as the second prize in IL Meleto Di Guido Gozzano 2025 Literary Copetition. He has witnessed over four wars and severe aggressions by Israeli forces on the Palestinian people since 1980's with huge loss of life. He writes and publishes to raise consciousness about the Palestinian fair cause.

       Greatly speaking, Ahmed Miqdad establishes his idea that cultural ennui is  with the globe fully mapped, surveilled, and stimulated via digital media, the sense of vast mystery has collapsed into claustrophobia and fatigue, and,  human agency has created an unmanageable ecological and social machinery that threatens our shared life world. He has the indication of recording moments, following the experience of ultimate humanity where the profound respect is turned to reality, gearing through knowledge with spirit, that is secondarily goes to supreme firmament. Thus, it may be added,

'With the indication of zone, you have
The life, recording by the incidents,
Fitting with the moments transcendental self,
Where experience is owed to own talents.

You are the ultimate ground of state,
Basing on humanity through the dealings
Among people where profound of respect
Is turned to reality and our feelings.

Your knowledge and activity are eternally
Owed to spirit primarily with men's
Blissful enjoyment through act properly,
And that's secondarily goes to essence .

You are the force of supreme firmament
And there you are into your love's attachment.'4

        Certainly speaking, he feels that
bridging memory and survival is reclaiming the personal by restoring individual narrative and human-centric values acts as a counterweight to systemetic reductionism, and conscious reflection in moving through crisis requires using historical awareness and wisdom, rather than escapist optimism, to navigate the future with integrity. He asserts that leaving left along the exception is frightened to the explosions. Thus, he writes,

'My loyal cactus, I' m sorry for having left you alone on the balcony.
I have no excuse, except that I was forced to go south,
under the barrage of heavy bombs , frightening
explotions , amidst thousands of martyrs.'5

    Establishingly speaking, Ahmed Miqdad confirms his idea through poetry that the present crisis of humanity for mankind is undergoing an evolutionary crisis in which is concealed a choice of its destiny; for a stage has been reached in which the
human mind has owed and rowed. It is to say delightly, Ahmed Miqdad feels that the philosopher's consideration through a reasonable understanding is humanised to a scrutiny where the sentiments are approved to action or behavior.  Thus, it may be added,

'The other species of philosophers consider man in the light of a reasonable rather than an active being , and endeavor to form his understanding more than cultivate his manners. They regard human nature as a subject of speculation; and with a narrow scrutin examine it, in order to find those principles, which regulate our understanding , exicute our sentiments, and make us to approve or blame any particular object, action, or behaviour.'6

         Honourably speaking, he regulates his idea through poetry that a neighborhood matters because it shapes our mental health, safety, and daily support. It gives us a physical place to connect with others, share resources like parks and shops, and build trust, and, good local ties lower stress and make us feel like we belong. He exposes the picturesque of the destruction of neighbourhood. Thus, he writes,

'I'm sorry again for exposing you to those terrible days and nights,
for letting you witness the destruction of our neighbourhood,
and leaving you to face thirst for more than a year,
without a sip of water.'7

        Sequencely speaking, he holifies his thought that mental health and social connection is
belonged to daily row of friendly waves with people living nearby that boosts to  happiness, and, neighbors help each other in times of need, and, people who know each other watch out for trouble and keep areas safe. He carried the reminiscence through nature like storms, clouds, hills etc. Thus, it may be added,

'When you worried
Look closing eyes
At the hills- mountains,
No worry folds on their foreheads ,
Are firm in heavy storms , clouds.'8

         Serenely speaking, Ahmed Miqdad attaches his idea through poetry that home value is good local areas and nearby schools protect property investments, and, net work of wellbeing is
the importance of neighbourhood for our well being, and, the importance of neighborhood, social contacts and social cohesion on people's life satisfaction. The survey found that social cohesion
on neighbourhood​ is commonified with connecton where reminiscence and humanity provide a physical and social space where individuals connect with one another. He , the poet has the testimony of hugness through the humanity.
Thus, writes,

'But I was in the south, hungry and starving, like you
When I came back ,
I found still stalwart,
only some scars on your body
as testimony to merciless soldiers.

Let us hug you tightly and comfort you 
because your thorns are more delicate than the
hypocricy of humanity.'9

         Above all, Ahmed  Miqdad's poetry accelerates that the factors of certainty are essentialised for life's deeds where the reminiscence and crisis of humanity are roamed about.

References
1. Ahmed Miqdad; The Burning Reminiscence; The Raft of Dreams Lit.Mag.;
     Pin-742201; 2024;        P-198;
2. Richter, The New Dict. of Thoughts; Ed. T. Edwards, D.D. and Others ; Standard Lit., India; 2002; P-562;
3. As No.1;
4. The Writer, M.Das; Instant Sonnet;
5. Ahmed Miqdad; My Loyal Cactus; Add.As No.1; 6th Year; 1st Issue; Dec., 2025; P-189;
6. David Hume; Concerning Human Undetstanding; The World's Great Thinkers; Man And Spirit: The Speculative Philosophers; Ed.S Commins and R.N. Linscott; Random House; New York; 1947; P-342;
7. As No.5;
8. Md Ejaj Ahamed; Look, The Unspoken Words of the Blue Planet; Add.as No.1; 2025; P-48;
9. As No.5;


*Major help: Md Ejaj Ahamed*