"Wake up sleepers, praise Allah" calls the mesaharati as he strolls trough the streets before dawn, banging his drum to wake up people for their sohoor meal during Ramadan.They also come up with their own chants, including “catch the good month before it goes away!” and “u’r going to be hungry!”
Surprisingly u may even find some female mesaharatis competing the male dominated profession :)
They don't have a salary, but he will get the tips at the end of Ramadan from neighbours.
4 comments:
Interesting!
wow! something i've never heard of.Cool!
masha'allah i wish they had that in australia heheheehe thats a great idea,like your own human alarm clock heheheehe
salamualaykum..
we have sumin like that in Syria too!
we call him Abu 6bla (tabla)..
It's one of the things I miss while I was there :(
I remember, on the day of Eid, my baby cousins would be waiting at the front door to give him the money and thank him for waking us up for Suhoor :D
I hope they had it here in Uae too! :P
ANOTHER NICE POST SISTER!
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