Said majid al barzanji
ABOVE & BELOW: Iraqi elder from Al-Sahl village Abu Majid and a relative check on a water tank fed through a pump at the village in Wadi Houran, central Anbar governorate and a farmer digs an irrigation ditch in an agricultural field.
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To communicate with the outside world, people use old mobile phones instead of smartphones – the 3G network doesn’t reach there. Yet the closest hospital is over half an hour’s drive away along a bumpy road, the only education facility is a primary school, and residents rely on livestock and farming to survive. Lost in rocky hills and surrounded by humble palm groves, Al-Sahl is around 250 kilometres northwest of the capital Baghdad. “Our village is over 100-years-old and it still has no electricity, no medical centre,” said the man in his 70s, wearing a traditional robe and a red-and-white keffiyeh scarf. “We live a simple, primitive life,” said Abu Majid, one of the elders from Al-Sahl. ISBN 4-1.AL-SAHL, IRAQ (AFP) – In Iraq’s vast western desert, some 200 families live in a hamlet largely cut off from the rest of the world, their only neighbour one of the country’s biggest military bases. The Birth of the Prophet Muḥammad: Devotional Piety in Sunni Islam.
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The work has a central place during the annual commemoration of the advent of Muḥammad which, according to majority consensus, was on the 12th day of the Islamic month of Rabī al-Awwal. It is closed with a sublime supplication seeking the fulfilment of needs of the ephemeral world here and the pleasures of the everlasting abode in the Hereafter. This is done through poetic description of his blessed conception and birth, the miraculous exploits and significant events in his life, and description of his internal and external disposition. In South East Asia, East Africa and South Africa, the term “ Barzanji” is synonymous with the word “ Mawlid”, which is essentially a colourful celebration and spiritual display of deep love of the Prophet Muḥammad. The work is highly revered and widely recited by Sunni Muslims around the world.