Below the arches of remembrance, they pass and ascend the street linking the Jableh-Latakia freeway and Qardaha, whilst the magic of nature and its splendor wafting on either side of the ascension give the remembrance a unique more or less solemnity. It strikes deep gratitude, perfumed with the sturdy odor of lemon blossoms, and it guides the following to the place One of the vital largest males in trendy Syrian historical past lies useless.
The squares and roads of Qardaha, its houses and folks, its mountains and peaks, are busy annually, welcoming the circle of relatives, kids, and family members of Hafez al-Assad, the person whose fingers are nonetheless unfold out. Above hearts is a cloud, and above the rustic is a tent. Even the timber, whether or not a foot or a passenger, suppose they’re bathed in gentle. And it’s perfumed with dew, on Memorial Day “6/10/2000.”
Professional and widespread delegations, state and birthday celebration officers, media, highbrow and cultural figures, from Syria and in another country as smartly, males, ladies and youngsters, heading to the Qardaha street at the morning of June 10, on a seek advice from to meet what that they had been not able to do for nearly 1 / 4 of a century.
A seek advice from that starts with incense, interspersed with the recitation of verses and chanting of psalms, and ends with an oath that resonates within the souls, to by no means be devoted to the reminiscence and way of the overdue chief and father, Hafez al-Assad.
A type of visits that is going to the shrine of the immortal chief on the once a year anniversary of his passing, is made via Mrs. Umm Nader, in success of a vow that has change into 23 years previous, right through which she by no means misses the date of her annual seek advice from to her father who stays in her moral sense. She starts her seek advice from with incense, which she circumambulates across the position, whilst she reads what She discovered it simple for her to recite the Holy Qur’an, and between surah and surah, Umm Nader paused for some time, put what was once in her fingers, opened her fingers to learn Al-Fatihah, then wiped her face whilst pronouncing: “Would possibly God have mercy for your natural soul.”
30 years in the past, when the sector closed in at the girl who was once widowed and a mom of 5 kids, and at a time when a relative or a stranger was once reluctant to lend a hand her, all she needed to do was once rise up early, prior to gentle, and prayed Fajr as she meant, and when she completed her prayer, she remained In a state of prostration at the prayer rug, she meant what she sought after to do, accompanied via hope and supplication to God, for facilitation and acceptance, then she descended against probably the most villages of Masyaf, and at the 4 o’clock bus within the morning, heading to the Levant, she boarded, with simplest what was once sufficient in her pocket to achieve the capital. And in particular to the home of the person, whom she knew that once God, who would lend a hand her, and he did, and right here she is, along with her bones weakened and her head ablaze with grey hair, she is going to meet her vow, accompanied via her younger grandson, who’s finding out engineering, similar to his father, who studied it in another country, with a scholarship and an honor. From father, chief and brother Hafez al-Assad.
Additionally a number of the exceptional visits that move to the shrine of the immortal chief, at the morning of June 10, annually, is the seek advice from of college scholars at quite a lot of instructional ranges, together with kids, sporting “pickings” of basil, to plant them within the lawn of his close by soul.
There are dates that folks memorize with their consciences, and so they change into one in every of their non-public histories in existence, and the date of the departure of President Hafez al-Assad is without doubt one of the dates that each and every original Syrian considers, on a private stage, to belong to him and imply to him, along with the truth that the person who bears the reminiscence is without doubt one of the nice leaders who occupied the folk and crammed them with peace. The sector, in point of fact.
We will be able to perceive the character of the connection that brings Syrians along side the humanitarian standing of Hafez al-Assad, first, via what the undisputed poet of the 20 th century, Nizar Qabbani, stated, who touched this delicate and mild chord, and knew its energy and nature, so he expressed it via pronouncing: “President Hafez al-Assad is the buddy of the tree.” The cloud, the ear of wheat, the fields, the kids, the forests, the streams, the birds, the poets, Fayrouz, and Assi Rahbani. If one hen fell, or one cloud cried, or one ear of wheat broke, Hafez al-Assad would elevate the bowl of respite to her and stand over her head till she is healed.”
Tammam Barakat
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