My Friend "Thalaba" at an Istighaba Session

30-9-2018
Only clumsiness and stumbling speak for my friend "Thalaba"... and the running to police stations and centers for bail and intercession...!!!... to get him out of repeated detention.. So one time I told him, my friend, let your tongue be quiet.... do not try to babble... and استغابة the elders... in this time..... and act by the phrase that one of the imams in our village `Azzun used to say... in the old days... in the Friday sermon or the religious lesson. From the village of Miska in Palestine 1948.... I do not remember .. where he used to say... "O children of Adam... guard your tongue at the changes of states".... So I asked him that day while I was a young man.. What are the changes of states, O my sheikh?. He said.. the change of rulers and those in authority on the chairs...!!.. O son... so stay, my friend... with your children's bread... it's better to beg for salt!!!... He said to me... my friend .. do not be sad... they will not continue to transform me into more than this image.. I am a human ape... I was transformed... in the time of successive Arab politics.... which know neither mercy... nor religion... but rather interests... So take for example... Mr. Al-Jubeir, Saudi Foreign Minister... he justified killing the Yemenis... the innocent... in Yemen... and says there are illegitimate people there.... so he burned the green and the dry... the living and the dead.. until the white thread is distinguished from the black thread.. except that the darkness with the smoke of their bombs... the dawn sun will not rise from it.. to see the whiteness of the thread..... and cholera... is creeping there in Yemen.. to reap lives.. perhaps, maybe, so that legitimacy returns.!! For the war is long... because among the rubble there are the people of the mighty..... brothers of our people here.... who... regard death as trivial.... and who see the oppression of their near ones... reaching them..!! What legitimacy is this!.. and you yourself said that Bashar Al-Assad must be removed.. from Syria so that it returns to its natural state... many times and again ... even though he is legitimate according to international law dictionaries..... And it seems that the word legitimate has two completely contradictory meanings.. just as the word wine in our holy book has two meanings.. wine that one must avoid.. in this world.. and wine that is a delight for the drinkers in the Hereafter..!!

And my friend Thalaba continued speaking... although I tried to respond to him and refute what he said.. he did not listen.... He said that... here in Palestine... we hung our hopes... on the platform of the General Assembly.. so hopes were disappointed... in sorrow...!! ... except that Gaza.. and its siege.. were absent from its papers... that were recited.. and were not mentioned except.... to attend the house of obedience... and end its discordant notes....!!... So I told him.. why do you interpret matters like this.. this is an international platform... and in politics.. the speech is not recited with Eastern ardor as here.. there it must be done calmly and coldly.. so that your enemy is left bewildered by you.. like this

matters are.. so do not listen to this or that.. The Palestinian paper... in the General Assembly was a charter... for the cause... and the Gaza authority... was deprived... by the matter... so it did not come to its senses... time has been long.. and it is a shame on us.. to keep saying oil and Lord and Lord and oil... twelve years .. and the wound has not healed... so what do you expect...!! I point to it.. from the standpoint of treatment and not from spite! So do not throw words loosely...!! ... in this rotten time... in which the owner of the border crossing does not open it... to allow those seeking treatment and education.. for the people of the Strip.. and although they are bound by brotherhood in all fields.. yet he cannot open the crossing... because the matter is not in his hand.... May God console him.! For his economic situation... was classified.. in the public auction in the international markets... as unsafe... for investment.!!!.... And does water speak from the mouth of the one in it!!!!

I beg you, my friend Thalaba... from today on.. do not engage in politics... leave politics to its people and trust them.. for trust is required in the first place...!! in front of the real enemies.. and do not continue to استغيب the elders.. It is true that the ceiling of freedom with us.. its limit is the sky.!!!. But in some of your words, my friend.. they cause trouble and headaches... stay with your affairs.. pay the installments you owe on the car and the apartment... and beware of getting into trouble !!.. tomorrow they will cut your salary.. and you will wander the streets.. why .. do you always intervene ... in the new theories of management... If an employee comes to the manager complaining that someone slept and sought forgiveness.. for one of his superiors.. the instructions to the manager from above.. say.. Fire this employee immediately.. and promote the supervisor who was sought forgiveness for. This is a theory.... in the Middle East... to fight the undermining of confidence in officials.. so that we go to international forums as one voice..... not two voices... and this is a right... you, Thalaba, do not know people!!!

Stay away, my friend.... he muttered ... and said .... I will not surrender.!!!.. and I will not hold the stick from the middle.....!! For the stick from its beginning to its end is ours... we will strike the occupation with it.. for it is a means of legitimate resistance.. internationally!!.
I bade him farewell. And my heart is with my friend.... whatever he may be ... he will remain my friend...!!