Some of our farmers were getting excited about the day, when its hours were getting shorter, its moments were passing, and its sun was setting, while they were still in the valley, not having accomplished their plowing or watering them, and one of them had an impossible wish: “If only the day were two days and the night an hour”; Because of his strong attachment to work, achievement and love for the land.
The writer Abdullah Salih al-Qarni was not far from our “burning” ancestors, or the hot-blooded, who aspired to do everything that roamed their minds and imaginations, without being preoccupied with the bumpiness of the road, nor the limitations of time, nor the flexibility and possibility of the body. It is not always a requirement that a healthy mind be in the body. Proper, as unfair wisdom says, which was contradicted by the creativity of creators whose bodies were not in harmony with the rhythm of their consciences, brains, and daily struggle.
Talent sprouted from the majestic mountains of Tihama, and because of his strong attachment to the light, he was one of the last to spend the night with the sun, with nostalgia and fear in the dark. To edit from above his articles, criticisms, and poems, and send them to the addresses written on the letterhead of the publications, and the attachment to the profession and its troubles increased.
Abu Yasser succeeded in building bridges in record time, so he used to add a new face to the list of friends every day, perhaps more than one friend, and he always adopted the principle of “open the windows, we are full of darkness.” , as well as some of his ideas, and perhaps the most prominent witness to this is his idea for the Tash Ma Tash series “Academic Terrorism”.
Al-Qarni Abdullah – may God have mercy on him – communicated with his text to the editors-in-chief of newspapers and magazines, before he connected them in person, and drew the attention of the supervisors of pages, files, and cultural appendices. Samah Al-Mashouq, and in it the intensity of criticism that draws the attention of the official, and the beauty of the style that raises the questions of the questioner, and the muffled screaming that stirs and shakes the branches of the answers.
Abu Yasser captivates everyone who meets him, with the gentleness of manners, the fragrant commentary, the cheerfulness of the face, and the depth of the proposition. His first meeting with him was in the courtyard, pointing out his close connection to the history of the tramps, memorizing their poetry, and he was inspired by Urwa bin Al-Ward, and Al-Ahmar Al-Saadi, the owner of the famous house, “The wolf howled, so I became acquainted.” A wolf howled..and a human voice made me fly.”
At the beginning of last September 2022, the rebel departed from monotony and ranks, with good faith in God, and the star of the stimulus rose with his letters, rising to the sky, quietly, contrary to what was the harsh path of life, and the testimonies of friends and comrades were a balm for his family as they mentioned the virtues of “Hafiz Biography of the Tramps.”
Ali Al-Rubai (Abha) @Al_ARobai