Sunday March 16, 2025 – 05:15
Ramadan has a special place in the population of the city of Taza and its adjacent regions, where the Tazion celebrates the sacred month while preserving a set of customs and established traditions that a father inherits from the grandfather.
The families of Tazziyah wish to spend the sacred month with children and the big family, and their preparations to receive this month start from the Shaban community, because they are acquired by all the requirements, the basic food products and the traditional costumes. In this regard, Abdel Wahid Boubaria, professor at Taza multi-disciplinary college, explained that the Ramadan atmosphere in Taza is launched before the sacred month, because families receive this sacred month with a special spirituality. He added that, since the middle of the month of Sha`an, the families of Tazis have wanted to acquire various food and traditional fashion, in particular for children who fast for the first time, to encourage them to carry out compulsory prayer, and a certain number of mosques are subject to maintenance and cleaning work in order to receive the guests of Rahman in the best of Hilla.
Women make a pivot part of this preparation, because they meet in houses to prepare traditional salts and candies, in addition to the “zita” or “Cel and”, which are counted as a distinctive meal with Tizi breakfast tables, taking into account healthy ingredients such as roasted flour, almonds, sesames and various spices.
The researcher continued that at the beginning of the sacred month, the Tazion would like to execute prayers at the time, in particular the dinner and the prayers of Taraweeh, read the Koran and multiply the works of justice, including the relationship of the uterus and the exchange of family visits. In turn, local markets attend an tireless movement, because families accept the acquisition of the requirements they need, and many seasonal shops are erected along the streets and alleys, including the “market dome”, which is the beating heart of the ancient commercial city, economically, civilized and culturally.
Tazis women are also eager to buy the white coating of the little person on an empty stomach (Jilbab, inspiration and language), and foods used to prepare greased bread with eggs and filled with raisins, almonds and nuts, to offer him a gift on this occasion. The traditional costume which is devoted to the girl who fasts for the first time, which has a special celebration, is also acquired, in addition to the acquisition of the crown, which is placed above to celebrate its success in the representation of inherited authentic social and cultural values.
In this regard, the local heritage researcher, Mohamed Al -Hanan, said that the city of Taza is a living model for the interdependence of customs and traditions with the spirituality of Ramadan, because it preserves customs which revive popular memory and embody the noble values on which Moroccan society is based. Al -Hanan added that the inhabitants of Taza and the surrounding area, in particular the Prans tribe, maintain the Ramadan rituals of a religious, social and heritage nature. The spokesman stressed the importance of the night of half of Ramadan, where religious rallies are held to recite the Koran, while the night of the twenty-seventh of Ramadan (night of power) is a special occasion which is alive in memory and supplication, and women are considered traditional dishes such as couscous with chicken, in an atmosphere of joy and forecast.
He also underlined the particular importance which is dominated by young children on an empty stomach, because families wish to encourage children to fast, by dividing the fast between morning and evening for two different days, to gradually bring children to bring children at full speed. The researcher added that families also want to celebrate their daughters who fast for the first time, decorating their hands with henna and giving them a greater role in the management of relationships with the house and the family. There are therefore customs and traditions linked to the sacred month.
