Mahmoud Ismail Badr (Al-Ittihad)
It is a beautiful coincidence that the date of March 21 combines Mother’s Day with the International Day of Poetry, the mother as the source of the captivating and deep poetics of writers, creators, thinkers and philosophers, and poetry and its representations as a form of expression and manifestations of linguistic and cultural identity, which are among the most beautiful and beautiful of humanity.
“Mother” is four letters of light that, if combined, shorten all the languages of love, and draw the meanings of giving in its most sacred form, and that was not far from the field and space of creativity. As half of society, and the first and last lover, and this is what we found in one of the glories of Arabic literature, the Abbasid poet Abi Al-Tayyib Al-Mutanabbi, when he mentions his grandmother, the great mother who raised him by saying:
I long for the cup with which I drank
And I desire for its abode the earth and what it contains
It is the poem that inspired the poet Mahmoud Darwish, in his fine text on the real and symbolic mother alike, using Al-Mutanabbi’s poetry as fuel to stimulate his modern poetic lexicon related to daily life:
I yearn for my mother’s bread.. and my mother’s coffee.. and my mother’s touch..
And you grow up in childhood.. one day on my mother’s chest..
And I love my life because…if I die…
I am ashamed of my mother’s tears.
Mom.. my dream
From the same poetic view, the emigrant poet, Gibran Khalil Gibran, considered his mother (completely merciful) light, presence, residence and homeland: all homes are dark, until the mother wakes up. Fayrouz sang it in the words of Saeed Akl:
My mother, my angel, my dream that remains forever/
Your hands are still my swing and I’m still a boy.
As for Nizar Qabbani, he spoke to his mother in a simple poetic language, perhaps, as some critical studies indicate, the “third language” as he says:
I floated India, floated the bond, floated the yellow world and did not find /
On a woman combing my blond hair/
And she carries in her bag to the sugar brides.
The mother also had a very important place in the novelist world of the great writer Naguib Mahfouz, who said about her: “My mother played a positive role in shaping my personality and defining my literary path, and although she was not able to read and write, she taught me life, she was a storehouse of popular culture.” In his novels, many images gather for her, and does any of us forget the “Amina” of the mother in his trilogy (Between Kasserine, Qasr Al-Shouq, Al-Sukaria), and how he drew her with his pen as a model for the good, meek, tolerant and devoted mothers in the service of the family and children.
My first inspiration
On the other hand, the Egyptian colloquial poet Abd al-Rahman al-Abnoudi defines himself by saying: “I am the son of my mother, Fatima Qandil, and my grandmother is six, her father.” About her, he also says: “My mother is my first inspiration, who created my linguistic and poetic repertoire. He stoned her with songs, so that her voice and her image became part of my composition, and a guest in many of my poems.”
The mother remains in literature and art as she is in life, a symbol of every beautiful and noble situation. The play “Mother is Courageous” written by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht in 1939, and some considered it one of the greatest anti-war works of the twentieth century, tells the story of a mother striving to survive To secure a livelihood for her three children, make them happy and take care of them, in light of the conditions of the war that lasted 30 years and shook Eastern Europe and Germany deeply.
human dimensions
In the novel “The Mother” by Italian Grazia Dalida, the 1926 Nobel laureate, we find the story of a mother who is experiencing psychological crises and agonizing suffering, when she suspects that her son has committed a sin. As for the novel “The Mother” by the Russian writer Maxim Gorky, it is one of the great novels that bear human issues in identity, homeland and belonging, and it addresses aspects of the challenges of social life at that time.
As for “Paula” in the Chilean novel by Isabel Allende, she is the daughter lying on the bed of illness, as she appears to us in a biography in which she tells about her daughter who died after her struggle with illness, and is not more cruel to the mother than to witness the death of the pleasure of her liver, and without hesitation she is ready To sacrifice her life is satisfied if it would give her extra minutes to live on earth.
As for the Egyptian novelist Khairy Shalaby, in his novel “The Peg”, he excels in drawing a picture of the Egyptian mother in the countryside. Weiss” 1832 – 1885 “The Child, the Young Man, the Rebel” where we find many pictures of her as she pays for her children all kinds of evils in a frightening werewolf world.
In other forms of creativity, the image of the mother in most Arab poems, both ancient and modern, was characterized by holiness and purity. We find the Prince of Poets Ahmed Shawqi saying in his poem “The Mother”:
One day, a man tempted an ignorant boy with his money, so that he might take the temptation with him
He said: Bring me your mother’s heart, boy/You have dirhams, jewels, and pearls
So he went and stabbed a dagger in her chest / And the heart took it out and came back on track
But from his excessive speed, he fell, and the sanctifying heart rolled when it stumbled
The mother’s heart called to him while it was covered with dust / My son, my love, did you suffer any harm?
All beauty and love
We also glimpse this image in a literary approach that identifies with all beauty and love, in the poem “The Mother” also by the Tunisian poet Abi al-Qasim al-Shabi, while she licks and hugs her child, by saying:
The mother kisses her child and hugs him / Sanctuary, Heavenly, Beauty, Holy
Thoughts are deified, and they are next to him / And there souls return pure there
The sanctuary of life with its purity and tenderness / Is there a more sacred and holy sanctuary above it?
In the cinema
In the cinema, the wonderful writer Abdel Hamid Gouda Al-Sahar “Mother of the Bride” revolves around a simple Egyptian family in the sixties, presented by director Atef Salem in 1963, in a movie, in which he presents us with a heroic image of the dedicated mother as she pushes her children to success despite a series of economic crises and social problems faced by this family.
in formation
In fact, the image of the mother does not differ in all aspects of human creativity at all times. At the level of formation and sculpture, we find her an example to follow in feelings of tenderness, care and sadness as well as the fate of children, as we find in Michelangelo sculptures where she is the bond and containment, as well as the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. , which recorded motherhood in its various stages, as it appears in most of his works while she embraces her son and tilts her head on him, as if she contains him and strengthens him at the same time, and she is also with the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and the Dutchman Van Gogh.
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