After his participation at the “Taqaddum” conference… Massive criticism campaign targeting the poet Azhari Muhammad Ali

Sudan Events – Follow-ups

The participation of the poet Azhari Muhammad Ali in the Coordination Conference “Taqaddum” in Addis Ababa, on Monday, sparked a lot of controversy, while the progressives celebrated the poet and considered him the voice of truth. The poet Azhari Muhammad Ali also found widespread criticism, as the writer and theater critic Dr. Fadel Ahmed Abdullah, former dean of the College of Music and Drama. “What a person is most exposed to is being afflicted by the luster of gold or the power of money. He may not have had the opportunity to exercise his authority before as he exercises it in Sudan now, putting pressure on individuals and groups with the aim of siding with one opinion or belittling another opinion. The sparkle of the Daglo family’s gold wealth, along with the rustle of Gulf Bedouin dirham notes, are now exerting frightening forms of pressure on the lives of activists of all categories.
Intellectuals are not immune from this affliction. Rather, they are the groups most exposed to it, as they are the most suffering and poorest groups in society. The markets (Dagalo) that are open in every direction of Sudan to sell parking lots are the greatest threats that are getting worse daily, cracking the structure of the category of those engaged in mental production. It is an affliction that pushes them against their will to undermine the great national positions they took that raised them above the shoulders of the masses in previous stages.” He said
The journalist Fawzi Bishri, who presented a criticism in the same context, considered that the great poet is the highest platform in his nation because he stands in that lofty place in existence where visions, inspiration, conquests, and veils rise to the point of He sees what no one else sees.
“I wish that the creative poet Azhari Muhammad Ali had preserved his poetry and not brought it down from its sweeping ascents to the foothills and brought it down from his pulpit overlooking the entire expanse to a political circus theater in which (the tamer) killed the lion’s self-awareness and demanded that he act like a monkey.” He said.
“Did Al-Azhari recite new or old poetry among the people? I do not know, but what I know for certain is that Al-Azhari’s presence there represented all of his poetry and his position, even if he did not recite a single line. What was on display for viewing there was Azhari’s symbolism, (the beauty) of Azhari, to make the fall in the mud a normal thing.. We were not alone, Azhari was with us.” He said.