Research Oriented Essay- CONFIDENCE, CONDITIONS AND TRUTH IN MITWALI BASAL'S POETRY, Author - Dr. Manoranjan Das

 

CONFIDENCE, CONDITIONS AND TRUTH  IN  MITWALI BASAL'S POETRY

 

Dr. Manoranjan Das

E: manoranjandas20018@gmail.com

 

      The great poet Mitwali Basal of Egypt develops  his thought based on life's surroundings where confidence, condition and truth are bloomed.

He feels that in epistemology, logic, and information theory, confidence, condition, and truth are the core pillars used to determine the validity and reliability of knowledge, and, together, they form the framework for how we evaluate statements, make decisions, and establish facts. He makes a vast landscape of ideas where sadness and worries are encircled about. Thus, he writes,

 

'Don't break!

Don't despair!

Even if everything on earth around you shakes and breaks,

Wash your heart of all your worries,

Cast aside the piles of sadness,

Be patient and persevere!

You are the one called the Caliph,

So be worthy of it.'1

 

  The bio-data of Mitwali Bassal is as follows,

• Born in 1971,

Poet, storyteller, and novelist,

• His published works in poetry, short stories, and novels include -

Novels:

• Sha'ban in the Lost (published by Amarji Printing and Publishing House, Iraq, August 2023)

• The Old Man

 Short Story Collections:

• The Rooster with the White Comb (published by Al-Wahibi Printing, Publishing, and Distribution House, 2021)

• Love in Extra Time (published by Nile and Euphrates Foundation for Printing, Publishing, and Distribution, 2021)

• The Earthquake of Doomsday (published by Amarji Al-Iraqia, 2024)

• Classical Arabic Poetry Collections:

• Sailors Without a Harbor (published by Al-Wahibi Printing, Publishing, and Distribution House, 2021)

• Before the Session is Adjourned (published by Dar Al-Wahibi Printing, Publishing and Distribution, 2022

• Who Shouts in the Square, published by Amarji Printing and Publishing

• A collection of colloquial poetry:

• I Wish I Could See the Nile Laughing, published by Metabook Printing, Publishing and Distribution, 2021

• Egyptian Songs, published by Amarji Printing and Publishing

• In the field of autobiography, Amarji Printing and Publishing published his autobiography as part of the series 'Shining Names in the City's Sky,' the third volume in this series. The first edition was published in 2023.

Unprinted works:

• Novels:

• The Spring That Never Comes

• A Call After Midnight

•Short Story Collections:

• A Horse's Tragedy

• The Man Who Stole a Bear (a collection of very short stories)

A collection of classical Arabic poetry:

• A Date with Hope

• A collection of colloquial poetry:

• Why, My Country?

• Life is a Moment of Love • Ramadan Diaries

• He has published numerous poems and stories in print and online magazines and newspapers.

• He has won several short story, flash fiction, and poetry competitions.

• He was selected as a member of many short story competition judging panels and poetry judging.

 

 

          Generally speaking, he  expresses that here is a breakdown of the significance of each concept and how they interconnect, and, truth is the objective reality or the actual state of affairs, and, it is the ultimate standard against which information is measured. He suggests that  confidence is destined to deceiving something. Thus he writes,

 

'And live with confidence that you have come according to destiny.

Do not let any charlatan deceive you.

For you live in...

A time without time,

In a homeland without a homeland,

And among people without people.

You live today in...

Something without frameworks!2

 

          He terminates his poetic process through significance with truth as an anchor, knowledge becomes entirely subjective, and, in logic and science, a statement is valuable only if it aligns with reality, basing on the correspondence of theory of truth.

 

       Carefully speaking, he relates herself to poetry in such a way that  truth acts as the absolute destination or the correct answer, and condition through context refers to the specific circumstances, parameters, or premises under which a statement is evaluated. He discerns that destiny sometimes is eclipsed as defeating. Thus, he  writes,

 

'And if you fail and destiny is not on your side,

Don't break!

For the sun's light is sometimes eclipsed,

And the moon is eclipsed!

And if you fall, do not weaken!

(Don't break!)

Don't be defeated!

How many a fall has followed it?'3

 

         Broadly speaking, Mitwali Basal combines his idea through universality that truth is rarely absolute; it is almost always conditional, which is only true under the condition of being at standard atmospheric pressure. He perceives that seeking something is attached to inhabitant's looking. Thus, he writes,

 

'The son of Adam rose and triumphed.

You will die one day, so seek joy for yourself.

With it, you will forget the pain of a dying heart.

Tomorrow, you will be far from your homeland and its inhabitants.

So fill your eyes with your homeland and never tire of looking!'4

 

 

          He has the realities with theme and thought that  truth and confidence  establish the boundaries and rules, and, if you change the conditions, you often change the truth value of a situation. He has  the whole through qualities in every significance of fibre. Thus, it may be added,

'It is not enough that we swallow truth : we must feed upon it, as insects do on the leaf , till the whole heart be coloured by its qualities, and how its food in every fibre.'5

 

       It is to say that Mitwali Basal carries the confidence which is the measure of certainty or the degree of belief that a person or system has in a specific outcome or statement, and, in statistics and data science, confidence intervals tell us how reliable a prediction is in human decision-making, confidence dictates action where high confidence leads to decisive choices, while low confidence signals a need for more data. He realises that choice satisfies through consolation with condition.  Thus, he writes,

 

'Never choose to be a victim.

Never be satisfied...

For you will not receive justice from people!

Ask the perpetrators today about their conditions.

You will then know that there is no consolation here for any innocent!'6

 

          Assuredly speaking , he owes that truth  measures psychological or statistical probability, bridging the gap between what we think and what is real. He recognises that realisation is accused for personification. Thus, he writes,

 

'And you will then realize that your defeat was not a loss for others

Rather, you alone lost!

&I saw with my own eyes the victim being accused.

And I saw them cling to the one who betrayed!

Everyone betrayed, and you alone did not betray.

So, you became an accused person, haunted by danger!'7

 

         Reliably speaking, Mitwali Basal has the mode of thought with poetry that the intersect between  direct comparison is to see how the elements thoughts work together to form reliable knowledge, considering the matrix. He understands that truth seeks the feature of image  through irony. Thus he writes,

 

'And you stuck to the door of truth, seeking salvation through it.

But they called you a liar, a liar! (Don't break!)

Don't be defeated!

Even if your conscience dies

And all your features and images change

And people's hearts harden until they become

Harder to you than iron or stone

Don't break!'8

 

      It means that he has the iteration through poetry in everyday life, science, and artificial intelligence. The goal is always to align when your confidence is high, your conditions are accurately mapped, and your conclusion matches the truth, you have achieved, justified true belief—the philosophical definition of knowledge. He accomplishes that the rain is enriched to the caring of generosity. Thus, he writes,

 

'Don't endure humiliation, for humiliation's wounds never heal

And its traces can never be erased!

Don't complain about an injustice whose seeds you once saw and didn't care, only for the rain to grow!

Who has ever been enriched by stinginess or greed?

Who has become poor through giving and generosity?!'9

 

         He has the base of significance with truth, confidence and condition where the blue envelops of the hearts,  carry messages with the witnessing of worldly things . Thus, it may be added,

 

'A boat full of letters in blue envelops of their hearts

Whose message will resonate in the sky in the air

Moment by moment;

Their yellow minds' witnesses

Will be the sky , the earth, the air.'10

 

      Therefore, Mitwali Basal is tying up with the explanation of relationship among condition, confidence and truth where domes of the influence of positivity are caused to courage. Thus, she writes,

 

'Who has been destroyed by his courage?

Who has been saved by greed or caution?!

Don't break!

Don't be defeated!'11

 

 

        Overall, Mitwali Basal’s poetry carries the existence of time through the philosophy of moment's mooring where confidence, condition and truth are spiritualised about.

 

References

 

1. 'Don't Break,' Mitwali Basal; The Raft of Dreams Literary Magazine website, https://swapnervelasahityapatrika.blogspot.com/2026/07/poems-of-mitwalli-basal-egypt.html

2. Ibid;

3. Ibid;

4. Ibid;

5.Coleridge; The New Dictionary of Thoughts; Ed.T. Edwards D.D. and Others; Standard Lit., India; 2002; P-689;

6.As No.1;

7.Ibid;

8.Ibid;

9.Ibid;

10.River Erosion; The Unspoken Words of the Blue Planet; Md Ejaj Ahamed;  Dream Raft Publication; Aurangabad; Murshidabad; W.B., India; Pin-742201; 2025;  P-39;

11. As No.1;

 

*Major help: Md Ejaj Ahamed*