It is a tradition in many Muslim countries so that the country's army fired an artillery shells sound at the moment of announcing the sunset date for the breakfast and break the fast during Ramadan.
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| The Cannon of Ramadan |
Historical Overview
History suggests that the Muslims - in the month of Ramadan - during the days of the Prophet Muhammad, (peace be upon him) eat and drink from sunset until bedtime, He began to use prayer's call ( adhaan ) by Bilal and Ibn Umm Maktoum as an announcing for the end of the breakfast of the day. Muslims have tried throughout history - and with more space and the spatial spread of Islam - to invent different ways to the prayer's call of the announcement date for the breakfast, until the cannon appeared to exist .
The story of the cannon of breakfast in Cairo
Cairo was the first city where it started at Ramadan. A novel that the appearance of the cannon came about by accident, there was no deliberate intention to use for this purpose at all.
There are two stories:
The first story: At sunset on the first day of Ramadan in 865 Khhqdm the Mamluk sultan wanted to try out a new gun reached. Has coincided with the launch of the cannon at the breakfast time exactly, people thought that the Sultan deliberately firing the cannon to alert the fasters that breakfast had come, went out the masses of people to the seat of government thanked the Sultan on this innovation well-developed by, and when the Sultan saw the people were pleased,he decided to proceed with the gun firing every day.
The second story: where that some of the soldiers in the era of Khedive Ismail, who cleaned up a defender, a shell had came out in the sky of Cairo with a very loud sound, and it happened that was the time of Maghrib (the end of breakfast of the day) in a day of Ramadan, the people thoughts that the government has followed a new tradition to announce the Breakfast appointment , And have been talking so, Fatima the daughter of Khedive Ismail learned of what happened, she liked the idea, and issued a a firman stating that using the cannon at breakfast and hold and in the public holidays.
The idea spread from Egypt to the Muslim world .
The idea started spreading in the countries of Sham first, Jerusalem and Damascus, then to Baghdad in the late nineteenth century, and later moved to Kuwait City, where he was the first gun of Kuwait during the reign of Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah, in 1907, then go to all the countries of the Gulf before the emergence of the oil age, as well as Yemen, Sudan and even the States of West Africa such as Chad, Niger, Mali and East Asia where he began his cannon Breakfast in Indonesia in 1944.
How it works ?
Cannon was in need to four members, two of them are based fuel fill and nicknamed each one of them Almaaergy and the other two process at all.
The latest news of the cannon .
Breakfast cannon does not work now and since 1992 for nearly twenty years. Stop work in order to preserve the castle,and the architectural heritage of the region and for fear of affecting its voice .
The cannon now in the custody of the National Police Museum and the Citadel Square before the police museum panorama overlooking the city of Cairo.
I hope you liked my story.
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Manak Raafat
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