المواسم والأعياد في حمص ٣_a .. كتاب حمص

There was some competition among them due to the order and progress in the procession, so a section of the sheikhs separated and began to go out on Fridays in a short manner instead of Thursdays, each of them going out from his corner to visit the Khalid bin Al-Walid Mosque, where they prayed on Friday and then continued their walk to the main street in the town and then the square. The Turkmen section, where each of them separates into his own corner.

In this way, the celebration of the Thursday of the Sheikhs became not limited to Thursday, but Friday was also added to it. This was done once and for all and the Eid ceremonies were completed in terms of the order of the teams and who goes out on Thursday and who goes out on Friday, and in terms of the celebration traditions and traffic regulations in the second half of the nineteenth century during the reign of Sheikh Saad al-Din bin Khalid al-Jabbawi / 1866 - 1951/AD.

* Thursday traditions and celebrations:

We have three sources for this:

A - The manuscript of Muhammad Ghazi Hussein, Agha, the descendant of Sheikh Saad al-Din al-Jabbawi.

2 - The poem of Sheikh Abdul Hadi Al-Wafa’i.

3 - A cassette tape with the voice of Abdul Khaleq bin Sheikh Nour bin Mustafa Sheikh Othman. Based on these sources, we will present a detailed picture of Thursday’s celebrations.

It was a custom among the Jabawi-Saadiya order for the disciples and sheikhs of the order to gather in the Saadiyya Zawiya on Wednesday evening after the evening prayer, as the ritual prayer was held in the Zawiya every day of the year, and this night was called “Arba’ al-Mu’tarasha” (1). On this night before Thursday, people come in and congratulate the Sheikh. After reciting the rituals of the Saadiyya order, performing the Hazrat, and concluding, they move from the zawiya to the second hall / the reception room / and there an elder from the people of / Bab Tadmur comes forward, and the last of them is Sheikh Raja’i Al-Sari’, and after he recites Al-Fatihah, he says to the sheikh, “Happy New Year,” then he heads to The group present responded to him in kind. He then said: “O our Sheikh, we are at your command and subject to your advice, and we have gathered to perform our duties towards you, and we are walking with you and blessed by you, so what do you say???”

The Sheikh says, “Happy New Year,” and thanks for their efforts, their enthusiasm, and their zeal, and prays for their well-being. Then he says, “On the intention of accepting Al-Fatihah.” They congratulate him on the new season, and the Sheikh, while in his place, begins to distribute the tasks according to each person’s readiness: He divides the shifts according to the sequence and assigns “repentance” to each. He appoints members of the Nuba Shashtri group who have good votes, makes one of them their leader, and chooses a number of disciples, about twenty or thirty men, who wear white clothes and wear a white wool cap on their heads. Among them are those who carry the traditional weapon at that time, a shish axe. Some of them will carry a lattice. Some of them carry a rosary or a rosary around their neck. He makes them their leader and chooses two captains in order to chant the Al-Fayd Al-Asna system with the Most Beautiful Names. The sheikh appoints the bearers of the flags and the “signal” banners and those who help them in raising the banners and carrying the flags. Then he presents to the existing sheikhs how he will organize his successors and disciples. Meanwhile, Sheikh Naubat has come out of the corner to receive the participating caliphs from the neighboring villages, who come