From which Point…?

By: Ali Askouri

Mr. Adil El-Baz preceded me by writing an article in which I borrowed the last words of the heroic martyr, Mohammad Siddiq, and here I am on the path of El-Baz, a prisoner. This is a question that will continue to resonate and resonate in our history as long as the sun rises and generations succeed…!
In order to be fair, the expression does not belong to Mr. El-Baz or to myself. Rather, he was immortalized by a true hero, who rose from the rock of pride and nursed the milk of pride. His martyrdom embodied and immortalized those meanings.
The martyr, as the chronicles of his last moments say, was a steadfast knight, composed and steadfast, who conquered his killers with a question that will remain immortal for the rest of time.
He did not hesitate, while he was seconds away from death, to possess a courage that was unparalleled except among people like him, who were few.
Courage is not acquired, but rather born in the individual’s genes.
He did not hesitate in his last moments to prove his endless courage by interrogating his killers instead of interrogating him! Instead of answering their question; He had the courage to question them, and thus he put his killers in a difficult and unenviable position. If they answered, they would put themselves in the position of the person being questioned, which is humiliating for them, and if they evaded the answer, his question remained filled with sarcasm, contempt, and irony against them, and he cracked down their false pride! He disdained them and ridiculed them in the last words of his life, so they rushed to do their usual tricks to end his life, so they accomplished their crime by liquidating him. In their minds, they forgot that bullets do not kill heroes, but rather immortalize them! If those killers knew the chivalry, courage, and heroism in the skinny hero’s soul, they would have lined up to salute him even after they assassinated him. He defeated them in a duel and interrogation. But they are people (and cheaters) who do not know the value of men or the morals of soldiering!
No hero of his stature would have been martyred in any other way, as if heroes and distinguished braves chose their unique endings to be a separate chapter in history. The history of nations and peoples in its entirety is the sum of the lives and records of heroes. The record of traitors, murderers, and their group of broken and negligent people.
As scenario writing specialists say, reality and the details and facts of the conflict are the best screenwriter. It is as if we are watching a movie about a fantasy epic, with a hero teaching traitors and murderers the meanings of heroism and manhood. The best screenwriters, no matter how talented, could not have predicted the hero’s martyrdom in this amazing, heroic way after he was discharged from his profession for violating its regulations. However, a hero remains a hero no matter how reality changes, engagements arise, paths cross, visions become blurry, night situations engulf you, and conception mixes with arrows. Heroism does not come artificially, because it is based on insightful vision, steadfastness in the principle, and death in accordance with it. This is a position that the Creator grants only to the honest among His servants. The martyr was honest with himself and loyal to his principles. He was martyred defending the pride and dignity of his people. The twists and turns of the conflict did not move him one bit from his principles.
All of us and the young generation who led the December Revolution have the right to be proud of the martyr. For me, he is their undisputed leader, as he distinguished himself above all their many leaders and martyrs. He stood tall like a mountain among them in the sit-in square to announce his bias towards them (against Your Excellency), a position he knew would cost him his professional future if not his life. Then he sided with the truth and drew his weapons, siding with his people again after the tension had heated up and the torrent of failure and defeat of many had been swept away, and he was a leader and a guide for them. He illuminated the dark path for them with his heroic martyrdom. This is a record that places him above everyone else. He was a hero in both situations. His insight never deviated from the truth at any moment. He was honest with his Lord, with his people, and with himself, and he entered history as a legendary hero whose record will remain immortal in the history of our nation. Thus, he planted his foot to become a strong pillar and pillar of our nation’s history in its long struggle for national dignity and pride.
As it is said, only men of their stature know the worth of men. There is a difference between the hero Mohammad Siddiq and the cheaters of the Sahara desert, who were forced by fate and coincidences to fight men who cannot reach the soles of their feet!
But it is the will of God and the irony of fate. In a question of one letter and two words, the martyr revealed all their shamelessness and the decline of their morals. He emphasized that the cheaters came from the bottom of the source of moral decadence, without manhood, without origin or class, cut off from the means of decent living that they had never known in their lives, so they ended up as a group of bandits who revel in shame and disgrace every morning and celebrate their shame. Shame is of one degree, meaning that there is no first-degree shame and second-degree shame! Shame is the opposite of virtue and good morals. The prophecy came only to complete good morals, but they were naked from it. Their moral and ethical decline, ugliness, and barbarism are more even the Tatars.
My brother is of no benefit to the world by looking at him
If light and darkness are equal to him
They equate shame with virtue! What is their value as human beings? It is lower in status than cattle and insects, and cattle and insects have many benefits.
Just as there is no sin after disbelief, there is no fall after disgrace. Shame is the bottom of the fall, and they have reached it in all their crimes, and there is no longer anything they can fall to, and whoever is at the bottom does not fall.
Bastards for whom virtue is equated with shame. They plunder people’s property and take it to their communities to celebrate and receive them with sacrifices and singing…! They document their shame and crimes themselves and publish them publicly, believing that it is heroism. This is the goal of their understanding of heroism and virtue. They emerged from the dark corridors of history to prove to the world the fact that they live in prehistoric times. They came from the lonely caves of history to remind humanity of the ages of barbarism and savagery. They provide a wonderful model for pre-Islamic times and the dark ages!
God wanted to reveal the misery of their condition and their barbarism, so He empowered our knight over them and revealed their shame in a question of only eleven letters! A prisoner interrogates his killers! This is how God shows us the difference between truth and falsehood.
Standing tall, the martyr stood before his killers, full of faith and certainty, composed, knowing in advance his inevitable fate, but he decided, as he left the world, to interrogate his killers, not to interrogate him! This is how he left, and that is a status that only those like him who have determination, composure, and an unwavering faith in God and the cause can attain.
Who are they coming from? It will remain immortal in us and in our history like the Nile River… and it will remain linked to the history of our country. As long as people mention those bastard Tatars… you have taught them a lesson in shame, pride and arrogance.
Sleep in your heavens with the immortals. It will grow, O Mohammad, in our generations from every side, in every village and in every city.
May peace be upon your soul in all respects.
What a hero you are to embody our nobility and pride
You have risen in the battle of dignity and pride to a difficult level… Our daughters will continue to give birth to heroes, generation after generation, and our land is pristine and fertile, and our aspirations are above the chandeliers .
From every side, heroes will emerge from the nation’s lairs.
Sleep peacefully, hero. The heroes will continue the battle from every side… and we will prevail, even if the road is long.
May God’s peace be upon you as long as the rain falls and the call is raised from the minarets.
This land is ours