The Amazigh spirit that used to live in us: loyalty
The spoken Amazigh cultural heritage - in the form of tales / Tullasin or legends / Ummuyn - is filled with stories from the past of our ancestors, all of which tell stories of fulfillment of promises and promises and keeping the trust... In addition, the judgment of our ancestors and their aphorisms mostly serve to raise the value of loyalty and consideration - that is, the value of loyalty - a central value in their community life...
We find, for example, sayings that say:
Ar itmtat yan f tarwa ns d tmazirt ns d wawal ns
and its meaning: One / man dies for the sake of his children, his land and his promise,
as we find another saying he says Our ancestors in serious situations that do not tolerate joking or contempt:
Nbbi awal; Awal n imazighn
and its meaning:: We finished the speech, the promise / speech of the Berbers,
as we also find another saying:
war awal; war ansa
and its meaning: one who has no words/promise, no address/ domicile
There are dozens of sayings and arguments in our Amazigh culture, it is not enough to mention them all here. But the most important thing in it in its entirety is that fulfilling vows and promises and keeping the trust in the Amazigh was the most important thing that the Amazigh person preserves, since whoever breaks the promise or does not keep the trust and the covenant cannot live in the midst of society (War awal war ansa)
but is forced to leave his community And living in exile / azwag
is further from that, for he who does not keep vows and promises has no speech / ur dars awal, meaning his words have no value..
The value of loyalty is closely related to speech among the Berbers: the owner of little words is the owner of mercy and loyalty. (yan wawal ibbi miya)
That is why our ancestors used to carry out their commercial and civil transactions verbally: as if a merchant takes tens of tons of goods from another merchant without paying the price for it or giving guarantees other than his verbal promise... So he takes those goods to trade with, and when he returns To the merchant who gave it to him, he will pay him his full wages without any decrease....
But unfortunately, since we were afflicted by successive invasions and colonizations, this value (faithfulness) began to disappear little by little, until it became a rare value in our societies.
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