Traditional Songs
Every society has its own traditions and customs,
which are differ sometimes from an area to another
in the same country. Muscat province has unique
traditions that some of them are still practiced
while others are not like:
Al Musaharati
During Ramadan a person tour the
lanes of the quarter before dawn playing drums to
awake the people and telling them it was time to
have their late meal and saying words like (Wake
up sleepers to have food).
Hawl hawl
It is a tradition still exists and
practiced when an infant completes one year after
birth, his family and relatives hold a celebration
and the newly born to be dressed in green clothes.
Pop corn and Omani Halwa to be distributed on the
guests.
Karankashwa
In the mid of Ramadan the children
take two stones after the Maghrib prayers and then
come out in groups hitting the two stones together
while singing (Karankashwa Ya Nas (people) .. give
us some sweets .. take your money from your
wallet.. it is not easy but take your money from
the box you are hiding in) so they pass with the
houses and the people give them sweets or some
money.
Tyminia
In the past schools were not modern like
today's but there were small schools for teaching
the Holy Qura'an and reach child accomplishes
learning the quaranic verses by heart a
celebration should be organized to honor him. All
students would come and join the teacher at school
and one of them to read this Tyminia, which is
contains prayers to thank Allah and the audience
to repeat the word (Amen). Then they accompany him
sto his colleague houses and have coffee in each
house and at the end they go to the house of the
honored student and have lunch meal there.
AI Hajla
It is a place looks like I room where
the bride groom celebrates in before wedding. The
place decorated with colored fabric, silver
ornaments and glass mirrors and different
pictures. This tradition is practiced in Muscat
province and it is still exists.
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