Mohammed Adib Al Dayekh

Qasa'ed Ghazaliyah (Flirtation Poems)

• Bayda'a La Kadar (White Without a Flaw)
• Qalat La Talj Darna (She Said Not to Enter Our Home)
• Zydi Almuteem Bahwak (Get Closer To the One Who Loves You)

• Malah Bareq Sa'ad (I Haven't Seen Souad In a Long Time)
• Qalbi wa Tarafi Ala Qatli (My Heart and My Eyes Will Kill Me)
• Lama Ana Khawa Qubael Al Sibh
• Yawm Al Nawa Ya Qalb (It's the Day For Love, My Dear)

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A collection of lyrical love poems performed by Mohammed Adib Al Dayekh, including iconic songs in the Aleppian tarab tradition such as Baydaa La Kadar (White Without Blemish). Mohammed Adib Al Dayekh (a.k.a. Adib Al Dayekh) (1938-2001) was a highly regarded vocalist and reciter of poetry, known for elevating and spreading heritage throughout the Arab world and beyond. He was the recipient of several prestigious medals and earned titles such as Singer of Kings, Zaryab, Singer of Lovers and The Ambassador of Song. Al Dayekh grew up immersed in Sufi and Ghazal poetry, and began his artistic life incorporating these traditions at an early age in his hometown of Aleppo. His father, reciter Sheikh Muhammad Al Dayekh of Aleppo had bestowed upon him the principles of speech, memorization, and the seven recitations of the Holy Qur’an, as well as rituals and recitation according to the traditions of Aleppo and Egypt at the time. The young Al Dayekh was soon considered to be a marvel in the city of Aleppo. He memorized about ten thousand verses of poetry by the time he was fifteen years old, and included these poems in his own collection, which he called The Great Treasure, which included thousands of poems from the pre-Islamic, Umayyad, and Abbasid eras to the present era.