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(6) Our ancestors are from Hadhramaut – Ahmed Seif Hashed
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(6)
Our ancestors are from Hadhramaut
Ahmed Seif Hashed
Our villages are scattered around the valleys and on the backs of high mountains..some tried to climb higher, and some tended to approach the valleys..our villages are as tired as their men, women and children..how did we come here?! Where did we come from?! And how did our ancestors reach it, hundreds of years ago?!
They said that our grandfather came from Hadhramaut to these areas from “Al-Qubaita” more than three hundred years ago, and they call him “Sheikh Hayya”, and his uncle “Sheikh Ahmed” accompanied him and with them a slave or more, and we do not know if there were other men in their company, and we do not know if he Eve had a presence with them, or she was among the arrivals.
The two names are associated with the title Sheikh, and it seems that the reason for this is due to their social and religious status.. My mother was affiliated with “Sheikh Hayy”, while my father was affiliated with Sheikh Ahmed.. It is noticeable that the attention to the shrine of “Sheikh Hayy” is more than to the shrine of “Sheikh Haiyi.” By order of my mother and her encouragement, I spread from the dirt of her grandfather’s grave, and I did not spread from the dirt from my grandfather’s grave from my father.
However, the question is: What prompted those grandparents to leave the glory of Hadhramaut and its good people, and come to this remote, difficult region, or one that is not without visible ruggedness, and perhaps also empty or sparsely populated?! How do they leave Hadhramaut, bypassing hundreds of places, on a road that extends nearly a thousand miles, to settle down and travel in a remote and unknown area, where there is nothing that attracts or tempts, or deserves adventure..?!
What prompted those ancestors to leave Hadhramaut, land and sea, plains and beaches, and people, and to cross in their long journey many diverse environmental and population diversity, some of which are more attractive than these areas in which they landed?! How did they cross a distance that may take many months to cross, to end up in remote areas very far from their families and families, and it is the stable in which they landed, and built their homes on the backs of its high mountains, then they tended to decline?!
I asked my mom one day why! She answered me by hearing that they came from Hadhramaut to this region, looking for a fatwa!! And it made me wonder!! Our regions do not have sheikhs, and they are not famous for their knowledge or fatwas, and there are not many people in them in those days, but perhaps their monkeys were more than their people, or those who lived in them.. And inheritances?!! Maybe.
Are there political and social reasons, or acts of repression and persecution of authorities, or the presence of unrest and instability, or the like that made them leave Hadramawt, and go away from them to remote and fortified areas, or difficult for those who thought of persecution or imposing his authority on them? !! Was he behind the selection of these areas; To be a home for those coming to it, because of the security, peace, and protection it provides for them?!! Or was it that our areas 300 years ago were green meadows, bushes, gorges, and abundant water that attracted those looking for a better life and livelihood in choosing those who traveled there..?!!
They are questions that need research to reach the truth, the answer, or an approach to what happened.
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