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In his "first black words" he wrote about what he would do in his future life and return. Shepherding, animal husbandry, science, Sufism, and raising children were exhausting, and when the middle age came, he did not want to do any of them. In the first black word, he emphasizes that what he is doing so far is unbound, unspoken, and everything is a barrier.

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Abay also translated into Kazakh the works of Russian and European authors, mostly for the first time. Translations made by him include poems by Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Krylov's Fablesand Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.

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Abay's works are translated into many languages. One of the most famous works of Abay is the poem "Kara Soz" in the literal translation "Black Word", which consists of 45 short parables.

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The subject of his work was a description of the life of the Kazakh people. His first collection of poems came after his death in 1909 in St. Petersburg.

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Abay Kunanbayev was born in 1845 in the Semipalatinsk region. He was the son of Qunanbai and Uljan, his father's second wife. They named him Ibrahim, as the family was Muslim, and he stuck with the name for the first few years of his life.Abay is a poet, composer, philosopher, thinker, educator, and also the founder of the new Kazakh realistic literature.