2023-08-20 09:38:18
Asmahan, in what was her amazing personality, was a first-class horsewoman. She used to accompany her husband, Hassan, on her horse’s difficult hunting trips. And you will see her on her horse once more when she flees at night from the “Umayyah” hotel in Damascus to Jerusalem, accompanied by Prince Faour Al-Faour, as narrated by the journalist Fomel Labib. “She was, and always will be, one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen,” Spears wrote. Her eyes were huge, green like the color of the sea you have to pass through on your way to heaven. She was generous and spent money like rain.”
Once I went to visit the French commissioner, General Catroux, at his headquarters, wearing a dress and veil in the Egyptian way. And she gave every soldier who saluted her a hundred pounds, and it was the equivalent of a fortune. She was sumptuous in every way. She lived fast and died fast. One of the seers had predicted her death by drowning. That day, she was going with her friend Mary Kalada to Ras El Bar, the driver threw himself out of the car and let her rush into the water. He later said he might not control the steering wheel. It was said that he locked the door tightly following he left, so that Asmahan might not escape. The stories no longer stop.
During 37 years, the princess from Jabal al-Druze has turned into a legend in singing, acting and politics. It occupied Egypt and occupied the Arab world, and occupied Britain, France and Germany. Lived like a singer, acted like a princess… made a lot of money and spent a lot more. I caught her maid trying on one of her dresses and gave it to her.
In terms of singing, she sang the most beautiful songs and threatened the throne of Umm Kulthum, and the little Shamiya enchanted Egypt, and her songs are still among the most wonderful and beautiful things that the Arabs sang. And those who wrote and composed for her, wrote and composed for Umm Kulthum: Ahmed Rami, Riyad Al-Sunbati and Muhammad Al-Qasabji.
From the most conservative Arab regions, two of the most famous voices of the East emerged: Farid al-Atrash, who did not take an artistic name for himself, and his sister Amal, who became “Asmahan”, the Persian name. The soothsayer who predicted that Asmahan would drown, predicted a long illness for Farid, and he continued to suffer from heart disease until his death. He also predicted to Fouad that he would not marry, and he died celibate in his early nineties.
Then Asmahan, who is in the fear of God, and which it was said that no one other than her gave similar meanings of supplication when she sang: May God’s prayers and peace be upon you / Intercession, O grandfather of the two good deeds / This is your load, his days have returned / Happiness and I hope for the eye / God’s dignity, O destination of Mecca, and your intention is to circumambulate the Ka’bah / Pray for me in it The dust of the road is a trust from an anxious believer.
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