2024-03-22 20:31:56
Dr.. Hassan Madan
On the occasion of Mother’s Day, which falls on the twenty-first of March, one of the websites conducted a poll on which Arabic songs dedicated to mothers are the most beautiful and famous. The website listed the names of a number of these songs so that followers could cast their votes in favor of the song they put in the “first” box.
It is natural that the song “Sitt El Habayeb” by the artist Fayza Ahmed was the first song suggested by the site, followed by the song by the artist Fayrouz “My mother, my angel/Oh my love that remains forever/And your hands are still my swing/And I am still a child,” which is from the words of the poet Saeed Akl and composed by the two brothers. Rahbani, and there are other songs mentioned by the referendum’s authors. I admit that I have not heard most of them before, not only because I do not follow everything that is sung, but most likely because most of them did not achieve the fame and success that the songs of Fayza Ahmed and Fairouz achieved. The referendum is criticized for forgetting one of the most beautiful Arabic songs about the mother, the song “I Long for My Mother’s Bread, My Mother’s Coffee, and My Mother’s Touch” by Marcel Khalifa, the lyrics of which were written by the poet Mahmoud Darwish, in the early days of his youth, while he was detained in Israeli prisons, for his mother, Mrs. Houria, who was that mother. His first experience being away from her, in which he said: “And I love my life/because if I die, I will be ashamed of my mother’s tears.”
Without diminishing the two beautiful songs by Mrs. Fayrouz and Marcel Khalifa, “Sitt El Habayeb” remains the most famous, as it has a renewed presence and spread, despite the passage of many decades since it was sung. This song has a story that is summed up in the fact that its writer, the well-known poet Hussein Al-Sayyid, was shocked, while visiting his mother on the night of March 20, 1958, that is, the day before Mother’s Day, that he forgot to bring her a gift on the occasion. According to those who told the story, Hussein Al-Sayyid, in a kind of… Apologizing to his mother, he immediately grabbed a pen and paper and wrote the words of that poem to her. After reading them to her, he felt her great happiness when she heard them, so he asked her permission to turn those words into a song.
As for how the words became a song by Fayza Ahmed, that is also a story, and again on the authority of the one who narrated it. Hussein Al-Sayyid immediately called the musician Muhammad Abdel Wahab and heard him the words of the poem. He was greatly missed, and he asked him to bring it to him immediately, as he composed it with record speed, and even asked Fayza Ahmed came to his house to practice performing it, so that it turned into one of the most beautiful and tender songs of loyalty to the mother. Despite the simplicity of its words, compared to the songs of Fayrouz and Marcel Khalifa, they overflow with sweetness and loyalty, which made them close to the hearts of listeners from successive generations. The name of the song: “Sitt El Habayeb” has become our favorite expression when we refer to mothers.
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