Muslims stop at a great remembrance whenever the crescent of the spring of his birth is due, even if the methods of celebration and expressing this love differ from one country to another.

In Sudan, the celebration of the birth of the Chosen One, may God bless him and grant him peace, is a major custom in Sudanese life. It is prepared ahead of schedule on Rabi` al-Awwal 12 of the Hijri year, and it hardly ends at the end of this month.

Methods and methods

Wherever you go in any of the cities of Sudan, you find a public square designated by its people to celebrate the birth of the Prophet, and you see crowds of people scent.

The arrangements begin before the second half of the month of Safar by striking the tents and preparing them for the event, and Sheikh Amer Abu Qaroun, head of the Sudanese Meders and Singers Union, brings us closer to the scene, saying, “Mawlid tents are temporary and are struck to celebrate it in the square designated for that, and each of the Sufi orders in the particular city knows the place where She pitches her tent. "

But the matter is not just setting up tents, in these tents there is a movement that does not stop day and night, and in this Sheikh Amer continues his statement to Al-Jazeera Net, saying, “The preparation is to set up tents, raise flags, renew them, and distribute the various roles from hospitality to praise, chanting and guidance lessons among the followers, and then they will be after That (the zaffa) marks the beginning of the celebration. "

And a (zaffa) procession roams the main streets of the city where road flags rise and strike (shifts).

(The Nuba is) a very large drum.

The procession heads to the square dedicated to the Mawlid and the throats chanting with the dhikr at times, and at times with the poems of praise and chanting, until the procession reaches its goal and reaches the square designated for the celebration, which includes besides the tents of the Sufi orders, an official tent for the government, and sometimes tents for groups that have a legitimate opinion in the method of celebration itself.

Ancient dates and features of Sudanese life

Sudanese poetry praising the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, was a feature of Sudanese life, and one of the most important topics dealt with by Sudanese poetry was either eloquent or what took place in the vernacular dialect.

The praise has contributed to the formulation of their conscience, and the praise of the Chosen One, may peace and blessings be upon him, was present in the folds of Sudanese life, not related to the birth and memory of the Prophet or religious councils, but is almost present in all occasions and social events: from the pleasure of the newborn, to the burial of the lost, through marriage and other Occasions.

Praise poetry is one of the oldest Sudanese poetry contained in the Sudanese library. The book “Tabaqat Wad Dhaifallah, The Manuscript of the Scribe of Shouna” is one of the oldest Sudanese books, and most of the poetry installed in them was prophetic praise and prevailed by the commoner, with the presence of eloquent poetry of a good level that the researchers did not notice. Outside Sudan, as some went to.

The critic and researcher Abu Aqleh Idris, in a testimony singled out by Al-Jazeera Net, believes that it is rare for a Sudanese poet not to have a poem praising the Chosen One, may God bless him and grant him peace, as he refers to traditions specific to the poem of public praise in its building structure and the basic pillars on which it is based.

Abu Aqleh stops to differentiate between praise in its general form and the mawlids (which are poems that summarize the most important stations of the Prophet's biography), while praise in general is related to the longings of the noble Prophet and the sacred spots, and he often lists some miracles, and perhaps praise of the companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace and his family.

Mawlid Square is a platform for calls for freedom

The tents of the Mawlid are not limited to reading the Qur’an and remembrance or singing praise poems only. Rather, its circle is expanded for sermons and sermons that talk about the condition of Muslims and their reality.

The memory of Sudanese praise poetry preserves many poems of sheikhs criticizing the political and economic conditions, especially those that were said during the colonial era.

Sheikh Amer responds to the feeling of praise in the condition of the people and the popularity they enjoy and the process of poems performed among the people, and continues his testimony, saying: ) And Sheikh Hayati (1871-1943, the era of the British-Egyptian condominium).

In his testimony to Al-Jazeera Net, he mentions an incident where the authorities prevented the erased from praising the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, for what he continued to send messages opposing them in the folds of the poems, but he refused to obey the order but rather hit (flew) his tune and pulled his voice saying:

"Even if it is blunted by fate, we praise our Messenger Batar."

The fields of birth in Sudan witnessed the beginning of the last century anti-colonial poems that reached their climax in 1923, and the main celebration in the Mawlid Square in Omdurman witnessed the reading of many poems linked by the use of the pulpit to ignite the patriotic spirit, and censorship imposed on those who wanted to read poetry to hand over a written copy of his poem to be read after approval on her.

Often poets switch chest or disability and perhaps a house or two to deliver their messages. Professor Hassan Nujela documented in his important book "Features of Sudanese Society" what was that year, and how the poems in most of them formulated the same message, and mentioned the incident of censorship refusal of the poet Muddathir al-Boushi to read a poem Because he did not hand over a written copy, but through the intermediary of the Egyptian warden, he read his poem, "The late Abd al-Khaliq Hassan, the warden of Omdurman Center, highlights the good man. He tells the celebration committee that he bears responsibility for what the boy will deliver."

And from what Al-Bushi read:

It is said: Men, no, and your Lord * they * truly deserve to be called the Fatimids!

Souls that refused to do the favor to their people * and to the enemies, yes, the defiant

The perches were terrified only turbans * bargained with us, and they were plucked in us!

And the sweet-born bride was made by the merchants:

Although the event is a celebration of the birth of the Chosen One, may God bless him and grant him peace, but the fields of the birth in Sudan can accommodate more than the event, and it may cover what is sub-side on the origin of the celebration, so the tents are full of mention, praise and recitation of the Book of God at many times, but not all of the square goers are among the mentioned participants And perhaps they attended praises and witnessed others as well, as the fields of the birth are witnessing the thrust of many families, women and men, old and children, and for each destination, so shops selling "sweets" of all kinds are active, for families "fulia, sesame, etc." and for boys that horse made of sweets, and perhaps it was Fares, and the girls, the decorated and decorated "bride of the birth," and they go to the squares with drinks and food, buying and selling, and giving charity at many times.

Nagila mentions in his aforementioned book a description of a scene that is still present. At Makkah, the Hajj season, and none of us and among them is this innocent morning and beloved sajir.

The poet Al-Fahal Muhammad Al-Mahdi Al-Majzoub captured the same scene in his poem "The Night of the Mawlid":

And a girl whose color is brown from the shade of a veil

It guides in youth and suspicion

She may greet you and invite you to the edges of clothing

It is a constraint and a start

And turmoil and consistency

If it separates from us and conceals it

The sweet maiden was replaced by the merchants.

She wore various colors, a princess

They were not transformed small

It stood in a carnival

Above a throne are treasures and nothing without candy

Imagination myths

Love remains the main reason for these hearts to gather in squares that expand as the multitudes descend on them.