Muhammad Abdel Samie (Sharjah)
Prince and poet Badr bin Abdul Mohsen bin Abdulaziz Al Saud died yesterday at the age of 75, after a life full of literary and humanitarian giving, as he is considered one of the most prominent modernist poets in the Arabian Peninsula.
The head of the General Entertainment Authority in Saudi Arabia, Counselor Turki Al-Sheikh, mourned Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen in a tweet on his account on the “X” platform, saying, “May God have mercy on the poet Prince, His Royal Highness Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen, and forgive him and place him in spacious paradise. My condolences to his honorable family and children.” To the honorable family of Saud and the Saudi people, this is sad news, and I feel as if I have lost a father, but I can only say thank God in any case.
Human and emotional feeling
Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen, born in Riyadh in 1949 AD, was famous for his prolific literary output, and for the poetic creations he left that resonated greatly in the Arab poetic scene and were sung by great singers, and included a special human and emotional feeling that flowed into the Arab taste, due to the devotion of His Highness, may God have mercy on him, to the sweet word. It is elegant, expressive, with a beautiful and dreamy effect, in the purposes of flirtation, pride, lamentation, and national poetry. Thus, he deserved to honor the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, by granting him the King Abdulaziz scarf, in 2019.
Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen was known for his follow-up of the cultural and poetic scene, influenced by his family and his father’s council, which included many scholars, writers, and thinkers. He also studied his primary stages in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, his middle school at Queen Victoria School in Alexandria, and his secondary school in Riyadh. He also studied in Britain and the United States. American, and Zamil Prince Badr, may God have mercy on him, are great poets in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including: Muhammad Al-Abdullah Al-Faisal, Khaled Al-Faisal, Khalid bin Yazid, Muhammad bin Ahmed Al-Sudairy, and Abdul Rahman bin Musaed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. He also collaborated with famous composers, such as: Siraj Omar, Muhammad Shafiq, Sami Ihsan, and Abd al-Rab Idris.
“Engineer of the Word”
With the passing of Prince and poet Badr bin Abdul Mohsen, the former president of the Saudi Cultural Society, the heaven of poetry bids farewell to the words on which generations of dreams and Arab romanticism grew up, the words of the “Architect of the Word,” as he was called, due to his great ability to express everything he wrote with emotional sensitivity and high expression, indicating this. The names of his collections of poetry express with revelation, such as: “What the bird gnaws on the date of the stalk,” in 1989, and then “A Message from a Bedouin,” “A Painting, Maybe a Poem,” “Flash,” “The Clouds Matter,” and “The Witness of the Letters.”
Sung poems
The pioneers and lovers of the Gulf and Arab popular song and poem, poems written in the Arab memory in the decades of the eighties and nineties and for post-millennium generations, retain their presence and expressive elegance, as they continued to remind of the scenic and dramatic sense of songs sung by the giants of Arab music, artists: Talal Maddah, Muhammad Abdo, Ebadi Al-Jawhar, Abdul Karim. Abdul Qader, Nawal Al-Kuwaiti, Abdullah Al-Ruwaished, Khaled Abdul-Rahman, Rashid Al-Majed, Kazem Al-Saher, Saber Al-Rubai, Najat Al-Saghira, Asala, Majed Al-Muhandis, and Diana Haddad.
Moreover, Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen wrote masterpieces of operettas and patriotic songs, which were sung at the Janadriyah Festival, Souq Okaz, and other Saudi national occasions, including “Above the Clouds, God the Eternal, Knight of Monotheism, Homeland of Suns, Imams and Kings, Kingdom of Love and Peace.” Swords of glory, tell us, O Rawabi Najd, Awafi, the glory of the homeland, a cry, we are all Salman, O home, O Tuwaiq, and God is one.
Honors
In addition to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, honoring His Highness Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen, many bodies, such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), honored him in 2019, coinciding with the occasion of World Poetry Day, as a unique poet for more than 40 years, and “General Entertainment Authority” under the title “The Night of Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen: Half a Century and the Full Moon,” where the head of the authority, Turki Al-Sheikh, announced the naming of the theater built specifically for this occasion, the Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen Theater.
The Literature, Publishing and Translation Authority also announced in 2021 its intention to collect and print the complete works of Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen, in implementation of the directives of the Saudi Minister of Culture, Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan, in appreciation of his contributions to the Saudi creative movement over five decades, as he was honored at the conclusion of the Al-Qurain Festival. Culture in the State of Kuwait by choosing the character of the festival.
Emirates love
Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen’s relationship with the Emirates is consistent with the depth and authenticity of the historical relations that link the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as the late deceased visited the Emirates many times as a guest at poetry evenings that enriched the cultural scene. He also wrote a poem about loving the Emirates entitled “1000 Loves.” », Her sincere and expressive words reflect the bonds of love and brotherhood between the two brotherly peoples of the Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
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