Cities of Ahwaz.. ​​Al-Falaiya the city of poets and palms

Within the series of cities of Ahwaz, we learn today about the city of poetry and poets ،​​Al-Falaiya  , the center of the princes of the emirate of Ahwaz before the construction of the city of Mahmara, which was the capital of the Ka’b state that fell to the occupation of the Persians in 1925, and the martyrdom of Emir Sheikh Khazal Al-Ka’bi, the last ruler of Ahwaz. Falah is the most prominent city of the occupied Arab state of Ahwaz, called Falah and the judiciary is called Al-dauraq , and the most prominent clans, the clans of Bani Kaab and Bani Tamim, it is located about 97 kilometers from the Ahwaz capital.

The area of ​​Al-Falaiya is 3600 square kilometers. It is located east of the city of Muhammarah, the last capital of the Emirate of Al-Kaabi, and west of the city of Ma’shour. It has a maritime border with the Arabian Gulf through the port of Al-Falaiya, and slightly below it is the city of Abadan. It also rises from sea level from 6 to 10 meters and passes from the city center a river called the River The farmer, in addition to the Jarrahi River.

This city was named by Sheikh Salman, the prince of Banu Ka’b at the time, after he arrived with his companions to the area, where he made this statement among his companions (this is the farmer), meaning we escaped to a safe area, who then ordered the rest of the clans of Banu Ka’b from those on the outskirts of the Karun River and Shatt al-Arab With the advent and stability and the construction of a fortress on the outskirts of the city, which was built in 1160 AD around the farmer, and the farmer’s river was passing through that city.

Al-Falaiya is called the city of writers, poets, historians and linguists in relation to the large number of Ahwazi poets who graduated from this city, most notably Ibn Al-Sakiet Al-Durqi, Al-Haj Hashem Al-Kaabi Al-Durqi, Mulla Mahdi Al-Shweiki, owner of Al-Shweiki Diwan and the late poet Mulla Fadel Al-Sakrani. And beauty in terms of artistic systems and beautiful poetic images until its artistic level reached what the great poets in the homeland and abroad sang for the tenderness and sweetness of his popular poems. He has more than 2,500 verses in sentimental, moral, social, satire and elegy.

Mulla Fadel Al-Sukrani praised the farmer with his famous poem “I love you, my Falaiya”, who says at the beginning of it:
I love the one who slept in the palms of the tree, our uncle Sbeity
I love that we built a building of gold, clay, that broke my house
The city of Al Falahiyah also contains one of the oldest and largest family libraries specialized in preserving manuscripts and the heritage of scholars of the city and the region in the name of the Al-Mohsani Library, which was founded by the jurist Sheikh Ahmed bin Sheikh Muhammad bin Sheikh Mohsen bin Sheikh Ali Al-Ahsa’i (1157 – 1247 AH).

Al-Falahia farms are one of the main centers of date production in Al-Ahwaz. The cultivated area is more than 57,000 hectares of arable land, but due to the drying up of Nahr Al-Jarhi, only half of this land is cultivated.
Environmental activists in the area believe that the drinking water of the people of Fellahia has become saline and depleted due to the reduced flow of water from the Karun River, and as a result the treatment plants have been closed. Because the treatment plants fear that their equipment will be damaged by the high salinity.

Ahwaz’s water needs in the field of agriculture, drinking, industry, environment, etc. are estimated to be about 32 to 33 billion cubic meters, and the water supply in upstream dams is about 29 billion cubic meters in dams, which does not meet Ahwaz’s protests of water.
There are more than 12,000 hectares of farms in this city, with 3.5 million palm trees in this city, more than a million of them are subject to destruction and drying.
About 50 thousand tons of dates are harvested in Fellahia, of which more than 35 thousand tons are exported abroad, while 28 thousand tons of wheat are also produced in Fellahia.

The size of the agricultural farms’ crop of dates reaches more than 20 thousand tons of Samran, Al-Barhi and Al-Buraim.
The Date Sellers Market in Al Falahiyah City is one of the most famous markets, which are traditionally active every day and palm products are traded.
Al Falahiyah is also famous for producing all kinds of dairy products and animal products such as dairy products, wool and leather are among the animal products in this city.
Wheat, barley, rice and other agricultural crops are considered more important. In addition to these products.