Celebrating the Prophet's birthday is a phenomenon rooted in Egyptian culture.

Researchers say that the idea of ​​mawlids was crystallized during the rule of the Fatimids, when the phenomenon of caring for food and sweets with shapes and colors that spread pleasure in the soul and spread joy in the atmosphere spread.

And “Al-Alaliq” was the word for the sweets hung on the doors of the shops that the Fatimids established to make sweets and then distribute them to the Egyptians throughout the month of celebrating the Prophet’s birthday. Times and rulers changed, and the Egyptians remained attached to the love of celebrating the birth of the Prophet - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - and Al-Alaliq.

The Mawlid bride and the discs spread joy in the atmosphere on the occasion of the Prophet’s birthday (communication sites)

A delight created by the Fatimids

The Fatimids left the rule of Egypt, and after them, the princes and the Mamluks took over, and Egypt fought wars, and its affairs were taken over by those who did not own it. stereotyping.

Nuts, coconut baits, sesame, peanuts and malban were also added to it.


Halawa Al Mawlid Workshop

Nowadays, the cost of the birthday cake has also changed, as has the method of making, and the form of joy, which no longer depends only on the joy of sugar pieces manufactured in shapes suitable for children of both sexes, but has become an expensive joy.

Through social networking sites, an announcement spread about the Al-Bahja workshop, a name that is not new to the followers of the art workshops that are held to celebrate the religious and social occasions that Egyptians love to celebrate. Preparing the sweetness of the birth at home, and saving the large amount that the family pays each year in the pieces of sesame, walnut, malban and ladida, seemed a good idea until the price of the workshop was announced, which exceeded the price of the sweet itself.

680 pounds (about $ 45), the amount is not mentioned on a candy box, nor about the price of a maternity bride that a young man is preparing to give to his fiancée, the matter is more complicated than that, and perhaps lighter than we think.

This amount (680 pounds) is the price of a workshop for preparing sweets for the birthday, just as artistic workshops have become accompanying all religious and social celebrations that pass in Egypt, starting with the Ramadan decoration workshop, then the preparation workshop for the holidays, and the October celebrations workshops, and re-simulating the memory of the glorious victory. Preparing the Mawlid candy to restore the atmosphere of joy absent from Egyptian homes, implementing some items in the workshop, and teaching others.

The bride and the horse, the sweetness of the birth of the old days (communication sites)

6 hours

The workshop takes 6 hours in one day, to learn the preparation of sesame, beans, cashews, almonds, dairies, and pigeons. Unfortunately, milk was not among the workshop materials studied over a period of 6 hours, but the person responsible for booking over the phone confirmed that it might be added to future workshops before the birth, though It was not going to take a whole year in the next season to be born.

Abdel Salam (a pseudonym) says - to one of the officials of the candy-making workshops - that the academy dedicated to learning culinary arts seeks to teach women and men different culinary arts, with all its arts and tastes, which is new to the Egyptian connoisseur, who believes in the idea of ​​inheriting the soul in cooking, but The truth is that modern culinary arts do not depend on oneself, but rather on learning, experience and difference.

About the workshop for preparing the sweetness of the birth, the academy official says that the price of the workshop is not exaggerated at all, on the contrary, there is an increasing demand for it and requests to repeat it, in addition to the fact that the materials are expensive.

The products that are manufactured inside the workshop - as the academy official confirms to Al Jazeera Net - that each trainee in the workshop makes a tablet of beans (candy in which peanuts are used) or other products and takes it with her as a matter of joy and rejoicing with what we presented in our simple celebration of the birth of the master of creation, may God bless him and grant him peace And blessings.