The incense

The incense was not the scraper of a smoke which carries a good smell or cure ness that popular use , it was in the old times the perfect perfume of the kings and the dream of the poor people which requires a lot of efforts to get it .
It was not a smoke that flows under the rooftops of the temples and between their piles that the presbyters burn in it like a decor or integral for a rituals of the worship.

The tree of the brickmaker and the incense

The incense is stretching gummy that flows from glorified tree at it stumps .
The gum of the incense plant is famous by it's smell during the liturgies and it is also a favor by it is distinguished shelf and it is the recovery of the gashes , it also can stop the hemorrhage and the nosebleed and used as an antidote like an opposite for the simoom .
The place which production kind brickmaker is by censorious form the middle coast for south of the Arabian peninsula , and especially Hadhramaut's area , and Dhfar's area , and Soqatra's island , and the Somalia coast where they report in a libelous manner the brickmaker and the traffic on board of Eden's gulf .

The kinds of the incense and the goodness which was written on hidden censer in positions of a different archeologist in Yemen :

Like ( quest , rand , thahab , naam , lubna , sabkhat , kamkam , dharo , qalam , hathik )

The kinds of the incense

1 - the censer's creator from partial height a self four and being raised to eminence and a bottom by conic body and a and a level rule , and this the found kind multitudinously .

2 - the censers of an eminent , a self of an one body are section and round by the shapes very much geometrical on her the piles section the prominent and the shapes are geometrical another .

3 - the censers of a bronzy a self of a rounded body the three of mule dears precedes it stands on it's lists forehand .

4 - the censers stony round by three foots which usually comes short .

5 - the censers are being raised to eminence on it's writings of the goodness names and it has four foots short .

The way of the incense work

The formatives :


( Two leaves of aloes , galloak , ambergris , musk , khutab , dhafri , ladnh , collection of perfumes , one and half pound of sugar , and one cup

And half of rose water )


Method :

First : the aloes , galloak and ambergris must grinded together very well .

Secondly: We begin to dissolve the sugar in the rose water then we put them on low heat of fire , then we add khutab and ladnh to the dissolved sugar in the rose water and then we add the grinded aloes , galloak and ambergris.

Finely after we take the mixer away of the heat we add some of perfumes and we put the mixer in molds rubbed with some perfumes and then we leave them till they become solid .