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A famous Physician and Poet
in HAMA .
”HAMA
is the Osontes , the Norias and Wajeeh Al-Baroudi” .
He was born in
HAMA IN 1906 to a well-to-do family ;and was sent to the A.U.B. in Beirut
with a group of his cousins to study at the Evangelist School in 1918and
at the A.U.B. to be graduated as a General Practitioner in 1932 ,He
practiced as a Physician up to his death in 1996 .
He received the
Ministry of Health ‘s Shield in 1991 as a Pioneer Physician in Syria ,
and was celebrated as a Poet when he reached his 70`s where a group of the
Syrian Poets , Men of letters and Critics participated . He was awarded
the Poetry Chalice .
His poetry got
formulated at the A.U.B. where with some colleagues (Farroukh, Omer the
Lebanese, Toukan, Ibrahim the Palestinian and Jamil Hafez the Iraqi)
established a society called “Dar Al –Nadwa” in 1926 and he setout
singing his finest poetry ,sincere .
He lived in
HAMA a revolutionist ,a lover and a humanist Physician and a unique Poet
,He published his first Group of poems “Between me and the Ladies” in
1950 and reprinted it with his second group of poems “So am I” in 1971
and his third group of poems “The Lord of Lovers” in1994 ,Still there
is a group of his posthumous poems awaiting some one to collect and
publish them .
Wooing ,no
doubt was prominent in all his poems where he was ever-earnest to beauty
and never reclined because of old age as he said in one of his poems :
People get
wondering ,how could a man of eighty with a bending back bear love .
He experienced
love when was young ,man and an old man
and got much more real and experience ,he is in his eighty of much
youth and more treacherous than an adolescent.
He depicted in
his poetry much of the scenery of life which were realistic pictures of
sweetness , beauty and light-hearted ness ,or criticism to society and
life in HAMA ,he led a revolution against backwardness and poverty as
revealed in his Red poem of his first group of poems:
Yesterday I passed by laymen and asked them
what do you wish for ?
They replied we want bread and water ,
A well-to-do man came next and I asked him
“what ails you ?
And he replied :life is a harden,
My
car has lost its novelty , I want another with gleam and splendour. Yee
poor , wake up and get rid of your ignorance , Yee whose lives are
rottenness and disease.
The
globe should one day have a day in which it revolts and the sun in the sky
becomes with a bursting rejection completely red .
As for
his personality ,it was rich in forgiveness repulsion and clarity and real
in general and special ,he continued a lover ,a physician ,a doctor and
supreme until he became a reference in untreated cases and many tales were
told of him ,he described himself ,:I am a wise man of ninety years and my
school is science and experiments ,”and said I am the outstanding
physician and I have a white hand over my city of Norias .
This
loving and critical soul of him continued with him until many people
accused him of hypocrisy and atheism ; but he rejected this accusation
that he was a good believer and went to MECCA for pilgrimage ,the action
that left a good echo in his country men of HAMA who received him as a
conqueror , he said in his poem defending himself :
I
am not a hypocrite nor an unbeliever , I am not a killer nor a thief
,I love the Prophet ‘s ethics and his companions where a morning without
those lanterns is complete darkness .people did not know my love and my
creed and much differences lie between me and them .
As for his
family ,he married his aunt’s daughter in 1931 and got seven males and
three females children ,he was to them the lenient father though he
,himself had lost his mother while he was seventeen and lost his
father’s aid after his father’s second marriage .He lost his wife and
three of his sons what had left an unhealed wound in his heart ,hi total
life was love and un ended grant
to all around him that he left a living memory in the hearts of those who
liked him and in the history of his city he deserved the right to say :
I
am living in my struggling results and in my poetry which remains fresh ,
and in my medicine ,experience ,and love I will be eternally for ever
alive.
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