Al -Dajani: Every hour, my mother attended my birth!

The writer Saham Al -Dajani has his literary and cultural presence, since the early days of the youth, and perhaps his passion for the world of adults.

• When was the time to come to the world?

•• I do not know the hour of my coming to the world, because I did not ask my mother’s lady “Wadha bint Hazaa” about that hour, but what I know is certain that every hour in her presence – may God have mercy on her – was a birthday, and every second after her departure is a “century” of misery, trouble and orphan! life”.

What season did you get?

•• There is no doubt that it is the spring season, at that moment my mother’s eyes were “spring”, but she is the lady of the four seasons.

My life conditioner

• What does belonging to culture and literature mean?

•• I mean, “life”, “principle” and “giving”, the proximity of the people of culture and literature is “the conditioner of my life” and the beacon of my career and the title of my social presence. Culture is “awareness” and literature “lifestyle”, and here I remembered the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz – may God bless him – 25 years ago when he sponsored the ninth evening of the blessed Ramadan in 1421 AH corresponding to the fifth of December 2000, Hamad Al -Jasser Cultural, and donate – may God bless him – the amount of one million riyals for the benefit of the Foundation, and I remember many beautiful pictures of the Ramadan atmosphere; Especially in the evenings of cultural salons in Riyadh, 25 years ago, I remember that I attended one of the well -known Saudi thinker Dr. Rashid Al -Mubarak at his home in Al -Shumaisi neighborhood in Ramadan 1420 AH, when Brigadier Muhammad Al -Hashem spoke about “Elaf Quraish”, the agreement that changed the map of the region and the history of the Arabs in the region in a moderate intellectual weather, as I remember recently in “Mhania” Professor Othman Al -Saleh – may God have mercy on him In the conference of Sheikh Abdullah Al -Naeem – may God have mercy on him – on the “volunteer work”, as well as in “Khamisiya”, my teacher Sheikh Hamad Al -Jasser, “Al -Jazeera” when it turns from the time of “Al -Duha” to the afternoon prayer during the month of Ramadan at his home, “Dar Al -Arab” in the Al -Ward neighborhood, in the presence of a group of writers, thinkers and intellectuals from home and abroad through the hadiths of Samar commensurate with the spirit of the holy month.

• Did it arise in a village environment? And what did your early awareness of the events, situations and people wake up?

•• Rather, I grew up in Riyadh, “The Lady of Al -Madaen”, this renewed city, since it was a mixture of the village and the city, until it grew up and broke out on the eyes of my master King Salman bin Abdulaziz – may God bless him – during his assumption of the Emirate of Riyadh for more than half a century, I now remember the hour of “asphalt” our old street, in front of our clay house in the neighborhood of Salihiya, an hour that has its presence and remembrance of it until the moment. We played that day with the “casting” ball, on the new black “asphalt” with our small feet, and we always repeat our famous phrase before starting to play: “Whoever flattens the ball will answer it” from the surface of the neighbors, whatever the price, and usually the “ball” is returned to us without the trouble of those who did it, and sometimes we receive it while it is “raised”, especially if it falls into the roof of a house that we do not know or “universal” Najdi.

Air conditioner in “Al -Qayla”

• How was the first day of fasting in your life?

•• Who remembers that day, Ali?! “The voice of Ibn Majid” is the muezzin of the Great Mosque (Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque) in the center of Riyadh, hesitating in our ears with the voice of the cannon, and on the journey of my mother – may God have mercy on her – we find all the varieties of love and the warmth of the family who gave our small souls “love of life” and respect for the “family’s taste”, as I remember some images of fasting with my brothers in “Alia Najd” in the heart of the desert when he was my empty “Kafr” is a Datson car in order to occupy a desert air conditioner, which we cool down in “Al -Qayla”. And on the breakfast trip with my grandfather and my grandmother – may God have mercy on them – and my empty Rashid and my aunt Sarah, and the house of poetry, I remember dates with the “cat” and the wild ghee and coffee that my uncle – may God have mercy on him – considers himself and on his fire in the “lips” of the House of Poetry.

“The bakery is baking and bread”

• What is your mother and father’s position on your early fasting? Is our ears for you or one of them by cutting fast by virtue of exhaustion?

•• My father’s position on the early fasting is the encouragement, support and intimidation of this great worship, the encouragement of good word and support for good example in their behavior – may God have mercy on her – a broad mercy.

• What was the family to fascinate at that time?

•• Suhoor .. Oh, the beauty of this time in our old house, when my mother declares a state of preparedness and preparation before dawn, she strives – may God have mercy on her – to return to the kitchen life after the day in Ramadan, so that the trip of suhoor is on its simplicity of delicious and in it my father and siblings, and she – may God have mercy And our ears while we were young, the suhoor in our ancient house was the opening of the soul in the month of Ramadan.

• What is the home activity that you were assigned to?

•• I was the second son in the arrangement of the family after my older sister or Mary -may God protect her -so my household responsibilities were limited, including bringing bread from the Yemeni neighborhood baker, I still remember the will of my mother -may God have mercy on her -for me when you put money in my little pocket, saying to me with great tenderness, “The baker, and the bread of this whole money”, of course, is more successful in this simple task that does not need me Exit from the house and going to the baking of the neighborhood, which is nearly a kilometer from the house, but I do not return to the bread completely, and I do not remember that it – may God have mercy on her – has blamed me for this habit, of course, other than the day in Ramadan.

Awareness and good education

• Which team or feature you feel is distinguished from your peers?

•• The advantage that I feel and I am proud is that it distinguishes me from the rest of my peers is that my parents are of a high degree of “consciousness” and good education with moderate innate methods. Sir, the father – may God have mercy on him – brought me from his work as newspapers and magazines, although his reading is simple, but he sees the necessity of providing ways to educate his children according to his ability, and all of this crowns all the attention of my mother And my return to it, and not allowing me to go out except at specific times, this unpleasant ritual for the child at the time, but I have passed several years that I realized that the “firm education” that my mother stands behind – may God have mercy on her – is the main reason behind the “discipline” that I live today in all the details of my life, as the house had a sacred sanctity in attendance, departure, sleep and play, which has its fine control She did not read and did not write, but she was a “professor” in “consciousness” and “motherhood”.

Calculator and I • Who do you remember from childhood colleagues?

•• The classmate “Munif”, who was competing with me to lead in the sixth grade of primary school at Abdul Hamid Al -Katib School in the “Salihiya” neighborhood, who only writes with the liquid ink pen, and solves all duties inside the class in the spare time, one day we gave the account teacher our professor Suleiman Al -Eid as a matter of account, and I did not succeed in the solution and my colleague Munif was late to solve it so he asked me to bring the “calculator” from his car that was outside The school, when I went and brought the machine, and if the colleague is to solve the issue! Of course, this honorable teacher, obtained a doctorate and a faculty member at King Saud University moved later, and joined her as a student at the Faculty of Education, Department of Science.

Why do you live in nostalgia for our first days in life?

•• Because nostalgia is only for the beautiful things that we were happy with even if it was simple, and unfortunately life with its concerns takes some away from the “beauty industry” in its pension reality, so he finds only the past yearning for it, just as Dr. Abdulaziz Al -Khwater said about himself when he is asked from one of them, do you miss to teach at the university? He says whispering as usual: I yearn to her as the nostalgia for camels.

• When did your relationship with education start?

•• When a decision was issued to appoint me a teacher in 1412 AH at Amer Bin Al -Jarrah Intermediate School in the Casablanca district of Riyadh, and I performed my educational message as a teacher, then after that an educational supervisor, then the head of the department, then the assistant director of the Education Office in northern Riyadh, then the director of the Education Office in Cordoba, then in kindergarten, until my early retirement years ago.

Cooks or Afnan • What are the positions related to the mind from that stage?

•• “Education” in all its conditions is a great message, and the outstanding situations are many, including the first lesson that I presented to my students in Al -Ghaznawi High School in the Al -Malaz district, the second grade of secondary when I was “training” in the last chapter of the College of Education “Field Education” under the supervision of my teacher, Dr. Saleh Al -Dhabiban -may God have mercy on him -that lesson is the “first session” in my professional life I learned from him planning, confrontation and confidence in the same The stages of my professional and public life.

• What is your Ramadan program from dawn to suhoor?

•• Make sure that it is a program in harmony with the rest of the year, except to add my attempt to be in this holy month to God as much as possible, and I try hard to spend this holy month in the arms of my small family.

• Which cooks, food, or dishes are keen to be on your Ramadan table, especially local?

•• By God, all the cooks are from my dear wife, or Afnan, and my daughters love her.

• Are you following radio or television programs? What is it?

•• Yes, and I am keen on talk shows, especially in the cultural and intellectual field.

I encourage the team • Why do the number of friends decrease whenever we get old?

•• In my view, this is a natural result of maturity and the progress of man in life experience, so that – even increases – the privacy of interest and the narrowing of the circle of homogeneity with others, except those who shared the beauty of difficult beginnings.

What is your wise wisdom? And the hair house? And the color you love?

My favorite wisdom:

The man remains a child, until his mother dies, and if she dies suddenly.

As for the House of Poetry:

Abdulaziz, who humiliated his authority *** Shos al -Jabbar from Ajam and from Arab

Laith Al -Laith, the brother of Al -Hajaa, is her price *** Mr. Al -Munebin Ibn Al -Sada Al -Najbi

These two houses of the poet Najd Al -Kabir Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Uthaimin -may God have mercy on him -praise His Majesty King Abdulaziz -may God have mercy on him -and whenever I read their readings, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman attended all his inspiring details.

I adore the green color .. the color of life, growth, and green Saudi Arabia is always and forever.

Do you have mathematical tendencies? What is your favorite team?

•• Is our national team worthy of encouragement and tendencies? Oh God, I am fasting!

• Any poem you see is weighed with gold water?

•• Yes, we are the Hijaz and we find *** here is a glory for us and there is glory

Ghazi Al -Qusaibi’s poem – may God have mercy on him – which summarized the homeland in a poem.

• What time or age you wished you had lived in?

•• It is enough for me that I live this era .. The era of my master King Salman bin Abdulaziz- may God bless him- the king of firmness and determination, and my master, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, the inspiring leader, we live in an afternoon that draws pride, so congratulations to our children and grandchildren of the future of the dream.