This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from Hibapress, the Arabic version:
Heba Press – Abdul Latif Baraka
While many countries of the world are preparing to celebrate the beginning of the Gregorian year, with the adornment, the noise and the rituals which are not absent from the appearances of joy, the occasion of the Hijri year in Morocco The passes this year, which falls on June 26, as a transitional shade, almost not degraded.
Despite the symbolism of this history in Islamic religious memory, its association with societal customs began to fade significantly, especially in major cities.
The absence of symbolic and religious sense
Speaking of this paradox, Khaled Bin Zaidan, an employee of the telecommunications sector in Rabat, says that what he notes each year is a kind of “collective indifference” towards the start of the Hijri year.
“No one asks to enter the new year, and not to messages of congratulations, no exceptional atmosphere, you have the impression of being more of Destrie calendar than a station which has a meaning to collective conscience. »»
For Khaled, this frigidity is due to the absence of supervised religious culture for the celebration, in addition to the growing influence of the media which completely ignore the event, compared to what is happening during the new year.
Trade recovery: candies are not sold
In the heart of the city of Agadir, Samira A. A, a worker in a traditional place for the manufacture of candy, reveals a commercial reality which reflects this societal apathy:
Samira adds with sadness: “People do not know even when the Hijri year begins, so how will they buy for that?”.
Opinion of sociology: is this the end of symbolic time?
For his part, Dr. Jamal Al -Ayoubi, professor of sociology, believes that what is happening should not be reduced to the vocabulary of “negligence” or “blind tradition”, as much as it is a reflection of deep changes in the structure of values within Moroccan society.
“What we are witnessing is a progressive transfer of the religious reference to the physical reference, where the opportunities associated with the holidays and the consumer media are controlled.
The New Year’s New Year, whatever her experience, is celebrated because it is part of the global collective conscience, unlike the Hijri year which has remained confined to the symbolic sense within religious institutions only.
Al -Ayoubi believes that responsibility is not individual but collective, from cultural and educational establishments, through the media which consecrate international celebrations and neglects local heritage.
– between cities and villages: the remaining traditions on the parties
Despite this urban frigidity, some villages and mountainous areas are still celebrating the Hijri year in its own way, in one of the suburbs of Narodant, Fatiha, a housewife, says: “Each year, we salute the first night with a collective religious file, in which praise and the Qur’an, the girls bought new costumes, and we prepare the food available, not a luxury but rather a sacred habit.
Fatiha considers these rituals as a “symbolic duty” more than a celebration, considering that major cities have lost this link in favor of models of globalized life to consumers.
– Who is responsible?
Among those who consider the celebration of the Hijri Sunnah a religious heresy, anyone who considers the question as a cultural decline, and which speaks of the “Western style knot”, the result remains the same: a religious occasion with a civilized dimension which quickly passes towards the World Cup.
What is required today is not necessarily to decorate the streets or drums, but at least to restore the educational and spiritual dimension of this story, within the framework of Moroccan identity, and not only of the Islamic calendar.
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