Sadiq al Mahdi Celebrates Eid al-Fitr
02 July, 2017
KHARTOUM (Sudanow) - For the former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and his family, a family well rooted in Sudan’s modern history, the horse is still valid as a show of bravery, chivalry, nobility and an expression of joy.
The noble animal is seen spurred in happy occasions, not only public but equally on private and family occasion.
The former Prime Minister himself, Sadiq al Mahdi, albeit in his eighties, is always seen during the Muslims Bairam and other festive occasions, riding his horse, may be to remind his followers and the Sudanese at large that this animal was the tank used to defeat colonizers and to bring home a joy: the first independence on African soil, by the Mahdism.
Few people would miss seeing Mahdi arriving on horseback to perform Eid (Bairam) prayer at al Khalifa Square about 2 kilometers from the family home, in al-Molazmeen quarter, Omdurman, Sudan’s national and historic capital.
He used to come to other public occasions riding his highly breed horse. But the Mahdi family remains one of a very few Sudanese families who have upper hand in raising horses and maintaining a well-groomed yarn, and early competing Sudan’s horse race sport in Khartoum.
His son Abdul Rahman, Assistant of President Omer Bashir, is without any doubt a chivalrous man, a horse race lover, in fact an able rider.
The horse also is still for the Mahdi family and for so many a Sudanese region a symbol of bravery. It suffices to say that this was one of the powerhouses used by this family grandfather, Mohamed Ahmed al-Mahdi, and his successor, Khalifa Abdalla Taishei, in battles against the colonizers, 1881-1898.
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