​In his appearance on Al Jazeera Documentary Channel's program From Poetry to Music, Dr. Sami Ababneh offered a nuanced analysis of the mystical poem attributed to Al-Hallaj, beginning with the line: "I swear by God, neither has the sun risen nor set..." He explored the poem's intertextual connections with earlier Arabic poetic traditions, placing particular emphasis on its stylistic and thematic resonances with the works of Abu Nuwas. Through this comparative lens, Dr. Ababneh illuminated the continuity and transformation of poetic expression across different registers of Arabic literature—from the sensual to the mystical.

https://www.aljazeera360.com/video/806473?t=0​