In the euphoria of victory, joy is improvised in the form of a chant. The Druze knight, martyr, and poet #Ma'adha_Al-Maghoush (1880-1926) was the author of the chant 'Clear the Merjeh, for the Merjeh is ours.' As the rebels echoed his blessed hymn in the euphoria of victory:
The throne of injustice has fallen
And glory has visited our land
It is over for you, O Ajams (foreigners/Ottomans)
Engaging in battle is our habit
We are your protectors, O flag
With our souls and our hearts
This is the chant that the knights of the Mountain began repeating behind Ma'adha as they entered the Merjeh Square on the day of the liberation of Damascus from the Ottomans on September 29, 1918, after a fierce battle took place between them near the Deir Ali area.
Ma'adha, who was at the forefront of the rebels on the front lines, suffered injustice along with the rebels of the Mountain due to their role in the Great Arab Revolt. The martyr Ma'adha Al-Maghoush is the son of the martyr Abu Trudi Hamad Al-Maghoush, one of the mujahideen who were executed in Merjeh Square in March 1911 along with a large number of mujahideen such as (Zouqan al-Atrash, Yahya Amer, Hazzam al-Halabi, Muhammad al-Qal'ani...) by Sami Pasha al-Farouqi—that is, 5 years before Djemal Pasha the Butcher executed the second convoy of martyrs on May 6, 1916, which turned into Martyrs' Day.
These rebels were subjected to the injustice of being obscured. Ma'adha and his companions recorded many acts of heroism, culminating in his ascension as a martyr in 1926 during guerrilla warfare against the French army, immortalizing his name among the names of heroes engraved in our memory and the memory of history.
