2023-04-16 06:38:34
The Jordanian flag began to be used in its current form in 1922, and it is derived in its shape and colors from the banner of the Great Arab Revolt, which was launched from the Batha of Mecca in 1916. Its colors, black, white and green, refer to the Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid Arab Islamic civilizations, while the red triangle that unites The parts of the flag are the Hashemite family, and the seven-pointed star in the middle of the red triangle symbolizes the seven frequencies in the opening of the Noble Qur’an.
Flag specification.
The Jordanian constitution specified the specifications of the flag, as Article 4 stipulated: “The flag shall be of the following shape and dimensions: its length is twice its width, and it is divided horizontally into three equal, parallel pieces: the upper one is black, the middle one is white, and the lower one is green, and a red right triangle is placed on it at the side of the mast. Its base is equal to the width of the banner, and its height is equal to half its length. In this triangle there is a white planet with seven rays, the area of which can be accommodated by a circle whose diameter is one fourteenth of the length of the banner. from one of the vertices parallel to the base of this triangle.
A hundred years ago, schools, government buildings, and squares in the cities of the country were decorated with the Jordanian flag. The flag that reduced the civilizations and glories of the Arabs for hundreds of years, and the Jordanians are proud of it and celebrate it on the National Flag Day on the sixteenth of April every year.
The day, which was approved by the Council of Ministers two years ago, in conjunction with the centenary celebrations of the Jordanian state, establishes our relationship with the flag that extends in the collective memory that chronicled the victories of Arab Muslims throughout history. Our pastures are the red of our pastures / Glory does not ride the one who does not ride danger / And the height is not attained by the one who is cautious.” The four colors of the Jordanian flag, in addition to a white star with seven rays.
A flag that refers to a national identity striking in the depths of its roots goes back to the Umayyads, who raised their flag while spreading Islam. The mainstay of civilization and its title from India to Andalusia, and the Abbasids whose black banners fluttered in a country that flourished with science, industry, arts, architecture and literature, and the Ahl al-Bayt who were steadfast in their principles and convictions and were not deceived by life with their green flag and the mantle of the Messenger Muhammad (may God bless him and grant him peace), and the red is the flag of the Hashemites who represent dignity The Arabs and their freedom, which is the triangle that brings together the previous three bars, in the middle of which is the seven-pointed star, which denotes the opening of the Noble Qur’an, the Seven Repeated (Surah Al-Fatihah of seven verses).
On the tenth of June 1916, the late, God willing, Sharif Al-Hussein bin Ali, launched the Great Arab Revolt, accompanied by loyal men, carrying the flag of the Great Arab Revolt that they planted in the cities of Hijaz before heading north through the cities of Jordan to Damascus, in an open confrontation against hegemony. Ottoman Empire in order to establish an Arab renaissance that would restore the dignity and dignity of the Arab nation.
And the men of Jordan and the rest of the Levant pledged allegiance to the late King Faisal bin Al-Hussein, so that the Kingdom of Syria would be established in 1918, and its flag would be raised in 1920, which consists of the four colors black, green and white, with the red triangle in the middle of the seven-pointed star, in all parts of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and parts of Iraq In a state that sought elevation, strength, and unity for all Arabs, but the ambitions of colonialism led to the first Arab unitary project in the modern era, the Hashemites were its vanguard and its political and national lever.
On the path, Jordan will carry the flag announcing the birth of a Hashemite emirate on its land with the allegiance of the late founding king (Prince at the time) Abdullah bin Al-Hussein on April 11, 1921 as its emir, and the flag of the Great Arab Revolt will be raised before the position of the white and green colors is changed, and a Jordanian flag is announced Its brigades failed in 1922, before the constitution provided for an article of its own in 1928, stating that the length of the Jordanian flag is twice its width, and it is divided into three equal, parallel pieces; The upper one is black, the middle one is white, and the lower one is green. A red triangle is placed on it from the side of the mast, the base of which is equal to the width of the flag and its height equal to half its length. In this triangle there is a white star with seven rays, the area of which can accommodate a circle whose diameter is one fourteenth of the length of the flag, and this planet is placed so that it is in the middle of it. At the point of intersection of the lines between the angles of the triangle, so that the axis passing through one of the vertices is parallel to the base of this triangle.
The flag is viewed as an integral part of the nation-building process, and refers to that growing sense of patriotism among people, and intensifies their sense of a set of symbols, signs and colors and gives them meanings and connotations accumulated over the days, to preserve their national memory as Jordanians record indelible facts. The flag was a flutter with the convening of the conference The first Jordanian National Conference was held on July 25, 1928, and more than one hundred and fifty symbols of the homeland participated in it, emphasizing that the people are the source of the authorities and preserving the interests of the nation.
The same flag was raised by the Jordanians with the declaration of the independence of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on May 25, 1946, which established their sovereignty over the land, the end of the British mandate that lasted about twenty-five years, and the pledge of allegiance to the late Abdullah bin Al-Hussein as king of the country, and he writes a historic day on the Jordan page. On a date with modernization, development and dignity.
And on the land of Palestine, the precious and precious Arab army exerted efforts to preserve its sanctities in battles immortalized in history and in which the Jordanian flag was raised, starting with the battle of Bab al-Wad in 1948 that repelled the Zionist advance towards Jerusalem, and dozens of Jordanian martyrs rose in defense of the first two qiblas and the third of the Two Holy Mosques.
On March 21, 1968, the Arab army rose again from its fever in the battle of dignity, which marked exceptional heroics in the face of the indomitable army, so that the Jordanians would write a victory documented in their record of victories, and they would wave their high flag that did not fall from their hands in the battle and remained raised with the blood of the martyrs. and neighborhood efforts.
For more than fifty years, Jordan’s soldiers have adhered to their duty in many battles to preserve the homelands in the face of enemies, since its participation in the October 1973 war, and through its wars against the forces of extremism and terrorism that managed to spare the Jordanian people and the Arab peoples major dangers and disasters, and ending with its essential and important role in Confronting the Corona epidemic about two years ago, and in all of these locations, the Jordanian flag remained proud of its glories.
For a hundred years, poets have glorified the banner of Jordan, which has never been broken, as the poet and former Prime Minister Abdel Moneim Al-Rifai says, “A beater in glory and glory / an Arab of shadows and glory / in heights and heights above men’s heads / bright and proud / alive in the morning and secret / in a smile The fertile and the fertile / Oh, the emblem of majesty and the brilliance of beauty / And fatherhood in the Lord.
Today we look at our flag, whose red color was tinged with the blood of the martyrs, whose greenery was watered by drops of dew mixed with the sweat of its peasants.
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