{"id":42505,"date":"2025-02-08T16:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T13:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=42505"},"modified":"2025-02-08T16:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T13:24:32","slug":"in-the-presence-of-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/in-the-presence-of-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Presence of Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By: Sanaa Hamad Al-Awad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writing in this moment, in these immortal days\u2014days of triumph\u2014Sudan is being remade, with a new spirit and a new essence.<\/p>\n<p>We once gained our independence with ease, through negotiations between the two colonial powers. Though it was a significant historical event, it came too easily; it did not forge a deep national spirit or an overwhelming sense of belonging. But today, everyone feels the true value of having a homeland\u2014a place to which even birds return after seeking their sustenance. A homeland is a sanctuary of dignity, security, pride, and contentment. Even if one struggles for a livelihood, it grants a profound sense of freedom\u2014the feeling of standing on your own land as its rightful owner, living on your own terms.<\/p>\n<p>This war was waged to drive you out so that strangers\u2014heartless and ruthless\u2014could seize your home, your land, and your means of living. They came from places you had only encountered in geography books, from societies where they were oppressed minorities, and so they sought to oppress you.<\/p>\n<p>This victory is a celebration of a battle for existence, for dignity, for survival against displacement. A battle for justice and truth, one that has given Sudanese people a new purpose\u2014the mission to defend their land and their right to exist, to protect their homeland.<\/p>\n<p>For this victory to be realized, this land was watered with the blood of thousands of martyrs, with grief settling in thousands of homes, embracing widows, orphans, and the bereaved.<\/p>\n<p>In the presence of victory, this war has brought us back to God in surrender and devotion. We all knew that every door had closed before this nation, leaving only the face of God, and so we placed our trust entirely in Him.<\/p>\n<p>O people\u2014O you, O she, O they\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In the presence of victory, we stand before our Lord with bowed heads, in humility and gratitude, in prostration and praise.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on your victory.<br \/>\nCongratulations on your homeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Sanaa Hamad Al-Awad Writing in this moment, in these immortal days\u2014days of triumph\u2014Sudan is being remade, with a new spirit and a new essence. We once gained our independence with ease, through negotiations between the two colonial powers. Though it was a significant historical event, it came too easily; it did not forge a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42507,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42505\/revisions\/42507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}