On her birthday, this is the story of the Farid al-Atrash woman locked in an iron cage in her bedroom

Today, October 19, marks 110 years since the birth of the great musician Farid Al-Atrash. He was born this day in 1910 in the city of Al-Quraya in Jabal Al-Druze in Syria. Al-Atrash has topped the search engines after Google celebrated by posting his photo with his famous comeback.

Farid, the owner of the most beautiful romantic songs, is known for many stories about love, which made the great poet and journalist Magdy Naguib seek him out and “mediate” the famous composer Mahmoud al-Sharif in 1971, for an interview. press, with Farid and at the same time “mediate” for a singer. A novelty that appears in the famous spring concert held annually by al-Atrash. Naguib says about Bulbul al-Sharq in his book “From the Music Box … The Time of Beautiful Singing”: “Farid was one of the voices that had great love in the hearts of listeners in Egypt and around the world. Arab, Perhaps this is due to their miserable romance. “

The poet of colors continues his many encounters with the king of the oud, to tell of his quick admiration for women, saying: “Farid was quick to admire women, quick to fall into their traps, and of course with good intentions, and He did not know the environment, as he was an extremist in everything in his life, it is impossible. That he was friend and foe, or lover and hatred at the same time, and he hated blameless people, and despite the large number of his friends, he couldn’t find someone to match him to stay up until the morning , so he was afraid to sleep, so something could happen to him and he would not find anyone to seek help, because he had a heart condition. The day I was visiting him at his house, which is always full of friends of all colors, staying up late and joking, I walked around the apartment to surround myself with the environment in which this singer lives, full of sadness of love, who He always suffers from heartache, and I found a statue of a woman in his bedroom. Inside a closed iron cage suspended from the ceiling, when I asked him wondering and inquiring, he said indifferently: “I locked her up here so she doesn’t escape me.” Magdy Najd answered his question to the King of Oud in amazement: “Who is she?” He said in the same state of indifference. : »She is not a specific woman that I know, and I do not mean a specific one. This statue is a symbol for everyone I know. They escaped from me after torment and sadness left me. “

The poet of colors was amazed at Farid’s idea, and his amazing vision with which his aching heart was patient, but he confirmed again that the reason women flee from the “Bulbul of the East” is that the more he knows of one declares that he will not marry her, but when he increases his love for a woman so that he cannot do without her. She surprised him with her marriage proposal, so the process of elopement and treatment of the wounds began.

And Najib asked the king of the oud again, why didn’t you get married? He answered confidently, in a serious tone: I am a firm believer that marriage kills love.