I
wrote two consecutive articles during the last two weeks in Al Ahram newspaper
about the issue of amending the constitution. It looks like Mr. Newton does not
read but Almasry alyoum newspaper, or he reads the other ones but considers
what is not published in Almasry alyoum as nothing!
From
this specific point to our life in general, I would like to say that one of our
public life’ evils –in specific regarding the political and cultural aspects–
is the ego, to a degree that may reach denying the other party and what may
accompany such thing of claiming to own the truth and pushing the other party
to abandon his opinion to believe in or adopt what that egoistic party wants,
otherwise, this other party would be described as intellectually-retarded, superficial
and what he writes is useless!
In
the same context, I would like to mention that what was said that some point
their weapons and rush to write if someone talked about or tackled a certain
époque or character while they do not bother to follow the current events and
discuss the serious issues that deserve paying attention to, is an abrupt wording.
As the matter started with those who kept attacking a certain époque, with each
one of them stabbing based on his own motives and background. Some of them are
of political backgrounds that are not different in their contents to the
biological backgrounds. Adding to this, there is someone playing the role of
Maestro; directing and encouraging them. Moreover, he suggests the point they
should target with their stabs. When talking about thought and politics, one
may say that for every action, there is an opposite reaction that may exceed the
action in its power; that is why talking about history and going far in
defending a certain époque in a just way came as a reaction for what Mr. Newton
used to be the maestro for!
Anyway,
I now beg your pardon to discuss a specific issue; that is how prepared we are
as a society –specially the politicians, thinkers, intellectuals and owners of
huge interests in this society– to think about scenarios of imminent dangers
that surround us on the domestic level and abroad, specially that there are
regional powers that have and will never cease to break the Egyptian will and
destroy the active Egyptian existence to guarantee their own superiority… not
to mention the huge amount of our domestic problems and issues that I doubt any
one has paid any effort in listing, describing or even detecting their future
course or results.
I
believe that the issue of the Egyptian political composition; meaning the form
of the regime, core of its philosophy and role of its institutions, including
the constitution, all this should be considered in the context that we
question, in order to see the controversial relation between our reality, the
imminent domestic and foreign threats, also the future ones, and between that
political composition that should accommodate responding to those challenges… As
to getting busy with consecrating the texts, this is part of an old issue that
has to do with both; getting busy with and working on, texts since the Mihna
or the ordeal regarding the creation of Quran that erupted thousand years ago
and whose repercussions still exist. As I have already written in an article
published in another newspaper, those who always called to prove that the
divine text is a historic one that can be dealt with like any other text are
the same people fighting staunchly for consecrating the constitution texts and
calling for the sanctity of not getting close to it, not even with
interpretation, except for what they want!
I
still confirm that like it was once said that wherever the nation’s interest
is, this is God’s law. It is also possible to say that wherever the country’s
interest is, this is the essence of the constitution’s texts.
Regarding
our discussion about threats – away from the theory of conspiracy, I believe
that studying the current courses and future orientations of the regional
powers in our region comes in the heart of studying our own future. In clearer
words, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Ethiopia have all declared some
of their goals for the few coming decades. It is also certain that they have
other goals they have not declared in such context, just because such goals
depend on other countries like Egypt, where the Egyptian role was and will
always be a point of concern for everyone, whether when it is powerful and at
its peak, or even when it is weak. What confirms how important the matter is, is
what Egypt witnesses currently of signs of economic recovery, foreign
relations, and also in fighting terrorism.
I
do not exaggerate when I say that the political and media discourse for
president Sisi in the Arab-Euro summit that took place recently in Sharm
Ash-Sheikh was a sign of that recovery. I know that it is better for Egypt’s
relations towards the region and its powers, which I pointed to some of them,
is to make a skillful balance so that we do not have a severe hostile rupture
of relations among the different courses over the common interests. However, it
should be managed in a smooth and agreeable manner in a way guaranteeing that
Egypt will finish the recovery process it started and will not go through what it
has been through in the nineteenth and twenty centuries; meaning the
renaissance projects of Muhammed Ali, Ismail Pasha and Nasser.
Translated
by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article was published in Almasry alyoum newspaper
on March, 13, 2019.
To see the original article, go to:
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