9.10 Kalmar Filastin a cikin Rubutun Ruhi Al-Khalidi wanda Ba a Buga ba

9.10 Kalmar Filastin a cikin Rubutun Ruhi Al-Khalidi wanda Ba a Buga ba - Falasdinu: Tarihin Shekaru Dubu Hudu | Quran Course

A yau Laburaren al-Khalidiyyah yana ɗauke da babban tarin rubuce-rubucen hannu na tarihin Musulunci da na ilimin fiqhu, tarin gida da Falasdinawa suka gina, da kuma wani rubutun Larabci na musamman game da tarihin Ziyoniyanci na siyasa wanda Ruhi al-Khalidi ya rubuta a zamanin ƙarshen daular Usmaniyya. Rubutun al-Khalidi wanda ba shi da kwanan wata, an rubuta shi da hannunsa mai kyau cikin Larabci, kuma an yi shi watanni da yawa, watakila shekaru da dama, kafin rasuwarsa a shekarar 1913. Na samu damar duba rubutun a Laburaren al-Khalidiyyah a ranar 22 ga Afrilu, 2017. Rubutun mai ban mamaki yana kama da daftarin littafi da ba a kammala ba, wanda Ruhi al-Khalidi ya bayyana yana aiki a kansa tun kafin rasuwarsa. Abin muhimmanci shi ne, a ko'ina cikin rubutun ya sha amfani da kalmomin Filastin (فلسطين) da turab Filastin ('ƙasar Falasdin', تراب فلسطين) wajen bayyana burin Ziyoniyawa da mamaye ƙasa da mazauna baƙi a ƙasarsa ta Falasdin. Rubutun kuma ya ƙunshi jerin mazaunan Ziyoniyawa a Falasdin, tare da sunayensu na Ibrananci da sunayen Larabci na Falasdinawa na gida da suka maye gurbinsu ko kuma waɗanda aka sanya musu suna bisa su. Abin sha'awa, babu wani wuri a cikin rubutun da aka ambaci Suriyyah al-Janubiyyah ('Kudancin Suriya') a matsayin wata hanya ta daban ta bayyana Falasdin ta Usmaniyya. Maimakon haka, Ruhi al-Khalidi ya ambaci 'Falasdin ta Romawa' kuma ya yi nuni ga Filastin a zamanin Usmaniyyawa.

Today al-Khalidiyyah Library houses a large collection of Islamic historical and fiqh manuscripts, a local collection built by Palestinians, and a unique Arabic manuscript about the history of political Zionism written by Ruhi al-Khalidi in the late Ottoman period. Al-Khalidi’s undated manuscript, in his beautiful handwritten Arabic, was composed many months, perhaps several years, before his death in 1913. I had the chance of examining the text at the Khalidiyyah Library on 22 April 2017. The extraordinary manuscript looks like unfinished draft book which Ruhi al-Khalidi appeared to have been working on long before his death. Crucially, throughout the text repeatedly he uses the terms Filastin ( فلسطين ) and turab Filastin (‘soil of Palestine’, تراب فلسطين ) to describe Zionist ambitions and settler-colonisation in his own country of Palestine. The manuscript also contains a list of Zionist colonies in Palestine, with their Hebrew names and with the local Palestinian Arabic names they had either replaced or were named after. Interestingly, there is no mention in the manuscript of Suriyyah al-Janubiyyah (‘Southern Syria’) as an alternative way of describing Ottoman Palestine. Instead Ruhi al-Khalidi mentions ‘Roman Palestine’ and refers to Filastin under the Ottomans.

Wannan al-Fulah ya zama batun wani yaƙin neman labarai mai tsanani wanda ya yi tasiri sosai a kan ra'ayin jama'ar Larabawa na yankin (Beška 2016b: 4). Yana maimaita salon magana na siyasa, kalmomi da adabin tsayin daka (Adab al-Muqawamah) na farkon aikin jarida na Falasɗinawa, kalmar yanki-siyasa Filastin, wadda jaridar Falastin ta fara yaɗawa, ta ci gaba da kasancewa da farfaɗowar ƙasar Falasɗinawa da gina ƙasa a lokacin bayan Nakba. Waɗannan ci gaban kalmomi sun bayyana a cikin wallafe-wallafen aikin jaridar Falasɗinawa waɗanda suka share fagen fitowar ƙungiyar tsayin daka a ƙarshen shekarun 1950 da kafa Ƙungiyar 'Yantar da Falasɗinu (PLO) a farkon shekarun 1960. Mujallar ƙarƙashin ƙasa ta farko ta Fateh (Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini; 'Ƙungiyar 'Yantar da Ƙasar Falasɗinu'), wadda ta fara fitowa kowane wata a shekarar 1959 – ƙarƙashin edita Khalil al-Wazir (1935‒1988), ɗan gudun hijira Bafalasɗine daga al-Ramla, tsohon babban birnin Jund Filastin – an kira ta Filastinuna, Nida al-Hayat ('Falasɗinunmu, Kiran Rayuwa'). Haka kuma, Filastin ita ce ƙarin mako-mako na jaridar al-Muharrir mai goyon bayan Nasser, wadda ake bugawa a Beirut kuma Ghassan Kanafani (1936‒1972) ne ya gyara ta, ɗan gudun hijira Bafalasɗine daga Acre, ɗan jarida, marubucin littattafan labari kuma daga baya babban jigo a Ƙungiyar Jama'a ta 'Yantar da Falasɗinu (PFLP) (Rabbani 2005: 275).

The al-Fulah affair ‘became the subject of an intensive newspaper campaign which had a powerful impact’ on local Arab public opinion (Beška 2016b: 4). Echoing the political discourses, terminology and resistance literature (Adab al-Muqawamah) of early Palestinian journalism, the geo-political term Filastin, popularised initially by the newspaper Falastin, continued to be wedded to the Palestinian national recovery and nationbuilding in the post-Nakba period. The terminological continuities were evident in the Palestinian journalistic publications which paved the way for the emergence of the resistance movement in the late 1950s and founding of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in the early 1960s. The first underground magazine of Fateh (Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini; ‘Palestinian National Liberation Movement’), which began to appear monthly in 1959 – under the editorship of Khalil al-Wazir (1935‒1988), a Palestinian refugee from al-Ramla, the old capital of Jund Filastin – was called Filastinuna, Nida al-Hayat (‘Our Palestine, the Call to Life’). Also, Filastin was the weekly supplement of the pro-Nasserist newspaper al-Muharrir (meaning the Liberator or the Editor), published in Beirut and edited by Ghassan Kanafani (1936‒1972), a Palestinian refugee from Acre, a journalist, novelist and later a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Rabbani 2005: 275).