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Our Arabic literature is a living organism, something like a great tree whose roots are firmly established and extend into the depths of the earth, whose branches have risen and spread into the reaches of the sky, and which centuries and centuries have passed and whose water of life is still abundant, flowing through its firm root in the earth and in its branches towering in the sky. Let us follow this literature in a simple, close manner, to see how it developed in its early days, and to see how it can develop in the days to come. Most notably, what we notice in the life of our Arab literature since its earliest times is that it consists of two dangerous elements that do not require effort or trouble to explore: one is internal, coming from itself and from the nature of the nation that produced it, and the other is external, coming from the peoples that came into contact with the Arabs, or the Arabs came into contact with them, and it comes from There are many different circumstances that surrounded and influenced the lives of Muslims throughout the ages, and let us agree to call these two elements: tradition and innovation. Taha Hussien