History calculations are different to calculations of
a grocery shop… as the first contain no retail business, wholesale business, or
anything in between, meaning semi-wholesale… however, history calculations are
about introductions, courses, and results… they also include vicious fights
where blood may be shed, people killed, wills broken, and nations looted.
In grocery shop business, there is the clever merchant…
but in history, we have the historical individual… the first has his eyes fixed
over the cash drawer filled with the money… the second has all his senses fixed
over the country even if the drawer is empty and money was little.
The historical individual could be a charismatic hero
who enjoys the leadership talent and talent of communicating with the masses…
and he could be a person who was assigned the responsibility – according to all
given circumstances – of saving his country and leading it amid a very tough situation…
not only on the outside level but also on the domestic one as well… he accepted
the challenge and went on with his eyes fixed over the best interests of his
country… even if some yelled out loud saying that there is nothing; no water,
no supplies, no rest, and no clear vision… while he is steering his ship through
the right course realizing how to carefully maneuver so that his ship or
country does not get sucked in the turbulent sea.
This not a rhetoric speech trying to hide the problems
we suffer in our very own composition… but a reality we live every moment since
Abdelfattah as-Sisi became the leader and muslim brotherhood were ousted form ruling
the country.
According to grocery shop calculations, prices are
soaring high… the market is ruled by the evil people… people are financially
exhausted and about to beg… but according to history calculations, it is a tale
of people fighting along the leadership of their state a multi-level with
different sides battle… it is the same epic of struggle that this very same
people had been through many times before throughout history.
It is a matter of people being told in public that the
one occupying the highest position in the state will not be able to go on alone
through these tough circumstances… people being told that the circumstances are
difficult starting from schools, hospitals, factories, resources, to the rest
of all fields… and that all of us have no other solution but to exert efforts
and work hard day and night… in addition to the regional and international
situations that leave no chance for anyone to ignore or deny them… and that
there is no alternative to working hard in order to ameliorate the conditions
and remedy injustice
As the one who realized the lesson learnt from The
Convention of London of 1840 that stopped the renaissance project during the
time of Muhammed Ali… and later the international collusion against Ismail
Pasha… and what happened in June, 1967 to hit the renaissance project of Gamal
Abdelnasser… and who also realized the difference between surrendering to the
tough circumstances like in the times of Sadat and Mubarak, and skillfully
maneuvering to evade surrender… this one has to learn from history… if that one
understood, realized, and started to practice what he learnt on the ground, he
would become that historical individual I mean.
According to retail business calculations, we can have
an estimation of expenses… like how much was there in the Egyptian treasury,
what happened, and how much is there now?... how many mega projects were
accomplished?... what their feasibility studies recommended?... what is still
under progress?... what happened in the armed forces regarding arming, variety
of arms’ sources, training, fighting conviction, protecting the country against
terrorism, corruption…etc?... in the same manner, we can tell how many projects
are left and what is needed in more than one field?... there are specialists
who master the language of economy and finance in such regard.
However, I believe I am about to talk about history
calculations that start by analyzing the situation our country lived in the
last four decades… then focusing on the last six years; how were we on the
economic, social, and political levels and how were the region and the world?...
then what about our situation now?
Also, what about problems of social cohesion and
sectarian problems?... what about the national will and Egypt’s role in its
African and Arab regions and its relations with the rest of the international
community?... also, what about completing the constitutional building of our
country?... what about fighting corruption that hit every part of our
country?... what about the criminal and political security amid the current
situation of targeting our nation in more than one place and corrupting its
living cells so that it does not rise again… in addition to many big issues
that we should pay attention to alongside issues of living and situation of
parties and communities.
To me – and I believe I have a good knowledge of
understanding history – I see our country going through the most fierce phases
of engaging with those contexts… and it is not possible in any way for any fair
person who has a complete systematic vision, capable of spotting the
comprehensive courses we are in right now and not stopping before secondary
details, to give a thorough evaluation saying what was done and what is left…
all what any fair person can say is that we have the right weapons for the
battle… and that our will will not be broken… and that surrendering and letting
things go without accountability is definitely unlikable.
We are in the very heart of the battle and the
battlefield is in turbulent movement… I believe no one of those engaging in
this battle could take off his armor and put down his weapon to talk gibberish
about what is going on in the battlefield.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article was published in
Almosawwar magazine on May 24, 2017.
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