Umayya b. Abi'l-Salt and the religious motifs in his poetry

"HE; He was one of the genius figures of the Sakif tribe. As a matter of fact, the Sakif tribe is a well-known tribe among the Arab tribes with the geniuses it raised. Because of his self-confidence, Umayya Ibn Abi al- Salt had advanced enough to consider claiming prophethood. Moreover, he knew the qualities that a person should have in order to be a prophet, and he even improved himself by reading and examining many books for this. He was a prominent figure among the Arabs with his scholarly personality, a well-known figure with his travels between cities, and he had many narrations. Jahiz's Based on these words he uttered for Umayya Ibn Abi al- Salt, in this study, one of the important poets who witnessed the Ignorance/ Jahiliyyah period and Sadru'l- Islam period, Umayya Ibn Abi al- Salt; will be discussed in order to shed light on the religious meanings of the period. During the period that Umayya Ibn Abi al- Salt lived, who was one of the prominent poets of Sakîf tribe and assumed as an extraordinary figure for the ignorance/ Jahiliyyah period literature, civil wars, unstable lives, social and political events such as various religious tendencies in Arabian peninsula, made him one of those who seek true faith by leading him thinking on human destiny. By addressing the personality and biography of the poet, the reasons for his religious and cultural background and the visual were examined. Then, depending on the subject, the prophetic expectation that he so desired was discussed. Because he lived in a religious and spiritual atmosphere, knowing a generation of prophets from the Arabs and desiring his products. Having an intellectual personality, adopting the Hanîf religion, having knowledge of the heavenly books, being hosted together with the clergy, traveling with the great merchants and making contacts with various cultures. The poet who lived in the period of Sadru'l- Islam, He witnessed the mission of the Prophet Muhammad and did not accept the situation of taking a front against Islam because of his claim of prophethood and died without believing. In the second part of the study, Umayya's divan was examined and the poems containing religious motifs were selected. And through these, the poet draws the framework of the world to our imagination. A research has been carried out to shed light on the great religious meeting point of the ignorance/ Jahiliyyah period, through details such as the vision of God, belief in oneness, thoughts that overlap with the Qur'an, concepts such as paradise and hell, and the stories of the prophets. Keywords: Hanîf, Umayya Ibn Abi al- Salt, Faith, Religious Motifs, Tawhid, Ignorance/Jahiliyyah, Sakif, Arab.