In his book, Ḥaywanat al-insān (The Animalization of Man), the Syrian writer and poet Mamdūḥ ‘Adwān says that the best aspect of human history is the process of human evolution, that is:

If we relate the ideas of Mamdūḥ ‘Adwān to the work of Janabi’s poetry, we find that his poems are fighting the beast existing inside the poetic hero, striving to make him a being who aspires to coexist with surroundings despite the feelings of alienation in his isolation.

Hatif Janabi is well aware of the importance of his poetic address to the human being suffering from loss, isolation, and self-alienation. He realized the concepts that relate to life and beings and understood the close dialectical relationship between man and creatures. The concept of humanization was not alien to his thinking, so we always find it present in his poetry in all its manifestations. In one of Janabi’s early poems, “Ṣūra” (Picture), written in Kirkuk in 1975, we find an explicit mention of the word ansana (humanization): “Humanization of the past and humanization of stone”. This quest to emphasize humanization is the product of a sense of exoticism and the weirdness of place and time, as well as the dying of real people: