Damascus-SANA
With creative fingers and elaborate arts, 3 young calligraphers from the city of Jeroud in the countryside of Damascus, Hussam Hilal, Abd al-Ilah Ghadiyah and Bilal Othman, draw paintings rich in Arabic calligraphy with different types of branches and sizes, geometric shapes and Arabic ornamentation, in which the dreamer immerses himself in a world of splendor, beauty and precision.
“You have good calligraphy, for it is one of the keys to livelihood.” This is the principle followed by Hussam, 38, explaining to the SANA Youth Bulletin that he learned calligraphy at an early stage in his life with his relative, Professor Muhammad Hilal, and won first place at the level of Damascus countryside during the Art Competition for the Youth Union 2002 He took courses to learn it at the Deir Attia Club 2007-2008 and followed an ornamentation course in the Plush Club 2008 and others, pointing out that he learned ruq’a calligraphy, then copying and diwaniya, and he sells some of his works to his surroundings.
“Calligraphy is the tongue of the hand, the joy of conscience, and the ambassador of minds,” as described by Abd al-Ilah, a 25-year-old graduate of the Faculty of Economics, Accounting Department, Damascus University, indicating that he loved Arabic calligraphy from an early age, as it requires calmness, patience, and constant practice. Compared to his age, then it developed with great encouragement from his father and mother, and with the support of Professor Muhammad Hilal, to grow into elaborate and distinct geometric shapes, through retraction, tide, intertwining, angulation, rotation, installation and overlap.
Abd al-Ilah pointed out that entering the world of numbers in his academic life did not prevent him from completing his training to improve the quality of calligraphy more, so he followed a course to teach types of calligraphy in Jeroud in 2014, which made him master the Ruqa’a calligraphy and then the Naskh calligraphy, then he used all his spare time to learn via the Internet, and he committed himself In the lessons of teaching the Thuluth calligraphy, which is considered the most difficult type of Arabic calligraphy in terms of rules and scales, and was famous for its region and its surroundings for the beauty and accuracy of its calligraphy, even by planning with a pen on stone and using reeds for paper, expressing his hope to fulfill his dream of the future in writing manuscript copies of heritage books and the Holy Qur’an with his own hand.
As for Bilal, 36, a graduate of the Faculty of Law, he learned the art of calligraphy in 2001 at the hands of Professor Ghazwan Qazih, one of the few graduates of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Jeroud. Helal acquired books specialized in this matter until he became distinguished among his peers, and he got second place at the level of Damascus countryside in the youth competition in 2003. He also held several courses to improve calligraphy in his region.
Bilal stressed that Arabic calligraphy is that ancient and renewed art, committed and full of creativity, combining discipline with rules while leaving room for imagination, expressing his encouragement to everyone who loves this type of art, as it is the pinnacle of sophistication, teaches patience and deliberation, and gives its owner intellectual and physical balance in the midst of a world of chaos. Elaborate graphics, phrases, and paintings.
Darren Arafa
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