The poet Shaqra al-Madkhaliyyah, Riyad al-Qasid, and Bihar al-Qawafi frequent; To regulate her taste, the juman contracts, and to scent her homes with the fragrance of jasmine and basil, and in this Ramadan endeavor; The bonds of connection between it and the holy month are evident; Here is the text of the petition:
• What is your message to Ramadan and those who are fasting?
•• The more the orbits of nostalgia expanded in our hearts, the good Ramadan was painful, as it is not suitable for these days except for the connection and the meeting, the iftar meal, and the coffee after it, the ranks of Tarawih, and the karkarat at the suhoor table, the meeting of the family, the neighborhood, and the friends, the noise of mutual invitations, and Amen, Amen Ramadan The kind and affectionate person is perfected in the intimate family gathering, and his grains are lost and dispersed if alienation tore him apart, especially the alienation of his children.
In the heart of every mother, there is a crack in the amount of loss, which widens as the number of those who are absent increases.
And when I say the mother, I mean that completely, as she is the only one concerned with gathering the family’s fragments, stacking the dishes and preparing the foods, and she is the only one who smells the smell of the absent in every dish she prepares and sees their picture in all the empty seats in front of her.
As for the state of death between him and his loved ones, his grief is great and his renewed pain does not end, how not, and Ramadan is the month of hugs, supplication and crying.
Real kids fight
• When did you start fasting?
•• My beginning with fasting, I think, was at the age of nine, when I was a student in the third grade of primary school, and I do not think that it was fasting in the literal sense of fasting, but rather attempts to fast that succeed once and fail at other times.
• Were you overpowered by misery, and pretended that you were fasting while you were not fasting (behind the yoke)?
A: It was not a minister, but rather a large refrigerator in my mother's kitchen. I used to hide behind it after returning from school, and I took some sips of water and then went back to complete my fast, and this was part of my failed attempts to commit to fasting in my elementary grades.
• How was the fasting diaries before social communication?
•• I will tell you a little about Ramadan, which is far from the revolution of communication and electronic communication. The simple Ramadan in my mother’s house and near my grandmother, may God have mercy on her. The rituals of fasting began with the suhoor meal that my mother prepared, which was mostly made up of a dish of mufflets or a jazzy marsa, coupled with a dish of kabsa. I start with it, because our real battle as children begins at that moment, when we have to wake up to eat it after we fell into a deep sleep, and in the morning we get up again to go to school, and when we return, my mother, may God protect her, will have taken her place in the kitchen with my grandmother who appears from time to time To check the conditions, and at three in the afternoon, I, as the eldest daughter, had to go to my grandfather’s nearby enclosures to collect the dry reeds that my mother used to light the fire under her earthenware “salt” that was used to bake the lahouh bread. Grandmothers, neighbors, and friends of the family. As for the large and distinctive bowl of the mosque, my grandmother, may God have mercy on her soul, carries it after she adds a lot to it from her kitchen. Thus, I do not think that there is room for anything else during the day in Ramadan other than working and listening to the Holy Quran broadcast, which was and still is a companion in the kitchen. As for us kids, we used to watch some cartoon series on the Saudi channel and the Yemeni channel, which appeared sometimes and stopped sometimes, while my father stayed in his room reading the Qur’an and books of Arabic literature.
The poem is intimate transparency
• If you were not a poet, which art would you choose?
•• I would also be a poet, and I don't think I have the ability to be anything else despite my absolute fascination with music and painting.
• What did the poem give you, and what did it take from you?
•• It gave me a lot, a sense of my identity, my being, and belonging to a self I love. It gave me intimate transparency and delicate fragility. It also gave me anxiety, sleeplessness, and exhausting, delicious fragmentation. The poem also has a great merit over Shaqra, as it is my gateway to others and the key to my access to the hearts of followers and readers. As for what she took, she undoubtedly took the tranquility, the social relations, and perhaps the naivety required for laughter
And the foolishness needed to get through age and life.
• Will the poet retire, and when?
•• Never retire.. The poet dies.. Either you live with poetry or you die without it.
A quarrel before the call to prayer • Which is more flexible, the mountain man or the plain?
•• Each environment has its own person who carries within it some of its details and features, and just as the plain has its ease, simplicity, and wideness of its orbits, the mountain has its loftiness, ascension, and majesty of its missions, so I do not think that the comparison is fair, even if the common stereotype appears in favor of the easy person.
• What is your favorite character in Ramadan?
•• As for the others, I do not have a particular personality that I like. As for Shaqra, I love her with the personality of the affectionate mother who is close to her children and her home, the good cook who captivates the hearts of her children with her dishes.
• What do you read during the month of Ramadan?
•• In addition to the Holy Qur’an, I make sure to read Arabic literature books, especially those related to Arab news, stories, poems and anecdotes.
What is the favorite dish on your breakfast table?
•• My table is no different from the Saudi table, samosas with its various fillings, soup and luqaimat, all of them are daily and favorite dishes, but if I want to pamper my children, I spoil them with the daughter of the dish of Yemeni origin.
• A habit that Ramadan helps you to leave?
•• I was going to say coffee after waking up, but I really got rid of this habit and replaced it with drinking tea from time to time, so staying up late could be the habit that Ramadan rids me of, because during Ramadan I sleep well at least.
TV and I What TV program are you keen to follow?
A: I am not exaggerating when I say that my relationship with television has been almost non-existent for several years, and yet I am watching some episodes of the Al-Liwan program.
• To whom do you invite to have breakfast with you? •• To all the children of Syria afflicted by the war and the earthquake, they are the only ones I really wish I could hug and provide them with meals.
•• What do you miss in Ramadan? •• I miss many, many of those who were absent by death or driven away by exile, I miss my mother's house and our meeting in her hands, I miss my daughters sitting with me at the iftar table, our quarrels before the call to prayer, the grandmothers' calls, I miss the face of Zahra Amqayed, may God have mercy on her, Before sunset, loaded with bags of jasmine, which she spreads to sell for 10 riyals.
• What would you like if all people adhere to it?
•• Peace and tolerance for opinion and other opinion, and by that I mean distancing from all those empty and useless polemics.
I will not live in my father's robe • Which television work is hard to forget? •• There are many beautiful and immortal works that left an impression on our souls since childhood. I am now reminded of the series Al-Rahaya, I will not live in my father's robes, the night and its afterlife, Sheikh Al-Arab Hammam and others.
• Why do the lyrics of songs and soap operas often have repetition?
•• Because the production companies are often the same, as well as the work team. The faces are different, but the minds are the same with a narrow vision and a small idea looking for light and fame.
• What do you think of the historical works in Ramadan?
•• I do not follow it, but after the success of the Omar series, I watched it in full, and I think it is one of the most beautiful things presented by the Ramadan drama.
• How does the poet transcend itself?
A true poet does not do that because it is the material of her poems and the essence of what she writes. Transcending oneself means engaging in another self that may not resemble you and may be a distorted version of your dreams and visions.
• Does courtesy control the involvement of non-talented people in professions and arts?
Courtesies are part of our culture, unfortunately, and we all have to do them from time to time.
Which resulted in the presence of the untalented among the people of art and creativity, but the consolation in that is the awareness and awareness of the masses who possess a serious critical sense that enables them to differentiate between the wheat and the wheat.
Interviewed by: Ali Al-Rubai @Al_ARobai
