Hotton Iftar Cannon

The Iftar Cannon ( Arabic     ; Turkish   ; a zahiri "bindigogi don yin buda baki ") wata al'ada ce ta Ramadan da aka daɗe ana amfani da ita a Masar wadda ta bazu zuwa manyan sassan duniyar Musulunci ; kowace maraice idan rana ta faɗi ana kiran sallah ( maghrib adhan ), ana harba bindiga sau ɗaya don sanar da mutane game da farkon buda baki a watan Ramadan, lokacin da Musulmai suka sami damar karya azumin yini ɗaya yayin da rana ta faɗi. An fara amfani da buda baki don sanar da birnin gaba ɗaya lokacin buda baki, kafin ƙirƙirar agogon ƙarfe da kafofin watsa labarai na jama'a;   ba ya cika babban manufarsa ba amma al'ada ce ta alama.  Duk da haka a Turkiyya, wasu mutane har yanzu suna dogara da sautin don karya azuminsu, amma kwanan nan a wasu birane, ana amfani da bam mai sauti maimakon canon.  

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Ko da yake ana yin hakan a yau a mafi yawan sassan duniyar Musulmi a matsayin al'ada, an fara amfani da fashewar bindigar a aikace don sanar da birnin gaba ɗaya lokacin buda baki, kafin ƙirƙirar agogon da suka dace da kafofin watsa labarai. Ana fara harba bindigar ne don nuna farkon watan Ramadan mai tsarki, sannan kowace rana don sanar da buda azumi a lokacin sallar Magrib da faɗuwar rana.

Wani labari da aka saba gani ya nuna asalin al'adar a ƙarni na 19, a zamanin gwamnan Ottoman na Masar Muhammad Ali . Wasu masana tarihi sun gano al'adar daga sarkin Mamluk Sayf ad-Din Khushqadam a ƙarni na 15. An rubuta al'adar a Istanbul tun aƙalla 1852. 

Wannan al'ada ta bazu ko'ina cikin duniyar Musulmi a ƙarni na baya. Gwamnatin Saudiyya ta karɓe ta ne bayan ta mamaye biranen Makka da Madina masu tsarki a shekarun 1920, kuma an gabatar da ita a Sharjah da Dubai a tsakiyar ƙarni na 20. Ana amfani da nau'ikan bindigogin Ramadan daban-daban, tun daga na'urorin harba ba tare da wani dalili ba zuwa bindigogin yaƙi na gargajiya, kamar su howitzer na Burtaniya mai nauyin fam 25 da aka yi amfani da shi a Hadaddiyar Daular Larabawa . Ana amfani da howitzer na Amurka mai nauyin mm 75 M1916, wanda aka bai wa hukumomin Musulmi na gida daga sojojin Burtaniya, a Urushalima . A Alkahira, ana amfani da bindigar Jamus mai nauyin mm 75 Krupp . Ana yi wa wannan lakabi da "al-ḥājja Fāṭima", bayan matar Sayf ad-Din Khushqadam. Sayadi, Omer (5 June 2020). "A Brief History of the Ramadan Cannon". Ultima Ratio Project. Retrieved 20 March 2022.

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