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Bristi
The third person to whom I dedicate my book “An Invitation to Reflection” is Professor Khaled Mohamed Khaled. My relationship with him was exceptional. We were friends despite the difference of 31 years in age.. I was thirty-five and he was close to seventy when we met. I had read his books “The Crisis of Freedom in the World”, “Democracy Never”, “Citizens Not Subjects” and Men around the Messenger. My knowledge of him increased due to his frequent visits to the Nile Badrawi Hospital, which I and my family owned, for treatment and convalescence, and we had time for dialogue, which increased my knowledge of life, added to my sentiments, and influenced it.
Then he would invite me to his house with my father-in-law, Hassan Abu Pasha, the former Minister of the Interior, and Sheikh Tantawi, the Grand Mufti, and then the Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mosque after that, and some of his friends, in conversations in which I was the young man who learns and listens more than he speaks.
After his death, his son came to me with all his books, the last of which was “My Story with Life,” as his father had recommended. In his last book, he talked about his friends, and I was honored to be one of them. A saying he used to say to me affected me greatly, which made me discover something in myself and hold on to it and develop it to this day. He formulated what he used to say to me and to those around that in his book, saying:
“Dr. Hossam Badrawi is a brilliant and auspicious physician, who grants a passport to everyone who comes to life from sperm and wombs. He also runs his hospital based on the immortal banks of the Nile with excellent efficiency, then he is a human being, sweet in spirit, pure in bed, chaste of the tongue, reminding people of the goodness of what is in them And praises thanks to those who are credited with them.”
He used to repeat this sentence to me and others, as if he was shining a light inside me so that I could see my heart with his eyes, so I tried all my life to rise to the level he thought of me, and to always be the person that Mr. Khaled used to see, so the adjective took root, and it became one of my subconscious qualities.
And because I really see the best in people, and I see the beauty in everything around me, a constant sense of optimism and good thinking of others has deepened within me.
Yes, the influence of Khaled Mohamed Khaled was profound in my human makeup, because it also pushed me to rise to the level of what I call for in terms of values and principles.
Professor Khaled Mohamed Khaled was a contemporary Egyptian writer with a high-level style, but he was also a politician and courageous in his opinion and positions, and I was politically influenced by his dialogue in front of the masses with President Abdel Nasser in the preparation sessions for the public dialogue on the Charter, which is the document that Abdel Nasser and his men were preparing for the contract The social community of the nation in the early sixties.. so read, and learn as I learned..
What did the writer do when he found himself in confrontation with a leader like Gamal Abdel Nasser? And in front of a large audience that supports the leader or at least does not dare to oppose him. In such moments, people usually maintain the virtue of silence, but one man, Khaled Mohamed Khaled, stood steadfastly and with faith opposing President Abdel Nasser and responding to him with an argument with an argument in one of the strongest and rarest dialogues between a leader and a citizen, in front of a large audience of statesmen, and those present were all holding their breath. The audacity of the writer who confronts a ruler of the size and tyranny of Abdel Nasser.
The facts of the confrontation took place before the Preparatory Committee for the Popular Forces in November 1961, which met to discuss President Abdel Nasser’s request for the political isolation of many social forces that Abdel Nasser saw as the reason for the failure of the union with Syria, and Sadat was the Secretary General of this conference.
At the beginning of the meeting, one of the bidding speakers, like many of them to this day, got up and said, “Why are you dismissed, Chief? They want nooses!”
So Khaled Muhammad Khaled stood up and said with all courage: The revolution should never shiver from one or two families, nor from opposition or dozens of opponents. Let us fear God as much as we can in carrying out this responsibility. I know that before the revolution there was a political life that involved a lot of corruption, but I also know that it involved a lot of serious work. I am the son of this people, and the July Revolution is the result of this people, the result of their past and struggle, and the result of their mistakes and right. I demolish the people and stab them in the back when I strip them of every political advantage before the revolution.. Never.. I had fathers of whom I was proud.
And here President Abdel Nasser got up and said: The social revolution did not succeed, and it is at the beginning of the path to achieving social justice and eliminating the differences between classes, and we must secure our backs from the enemies of the people who have no interest in this revolution.
Khaled Mohamed Khaled got up and said: I wanted to speak as the president spoke, but believe me, it is not in the interest of the people to arm themselves with violent slogans. We must arm them with their good nature full of vigilance, loyalty and love. When I asked for mercy for those we call the enemies of the people, I asked for justice for them.
Jamal Abdel Nasser replied, saying: The freedom of speech exists, and for you in particular, it existed, and you were writing in Al-Ahram, and no one prevented you. I would have liked to hear from Mr. Khaled Mohamed Khaled if he said something or wrote something and it was not published. All the books he wrote have been published, and freedom of speech is widely available.
Our enemies are trying to show that we have a system that intimidates, and God has not frightened anyone until now, never, but if you are going to battle, you must be assured of the army that will fight.
We did not wrong, some judged us, so who are they who judged them?
Our ruler, the Muslim Brotherhood, are we talking about openness, and why? Did we judge them for slander? Or because they had an armed army used to pounce on this people?
The people whom we pardoned reappeared when they learned that the Americans, the British and colonialism would intervene in this country and the regime would end and they would become the new regime.
Khaled Muhammad Khaled replied: In fact, I do not deny that I personally enjoyed the freedom of speech during the era of the revolution to the furthest horizons of freedom. And I swear by God without perjury that half of my courage during the ten years in expressing my opinions came from my good faith in you. And if you please
Greats made conscience
(2)
Bristi
The third person to whom I dedicate my book “An Invitation to Reflection” is Professor Khaled Mohamed Khaled. My relationship with him was exceptional. We were friends despite the difference of 31 years in age.. I was thirty-five and he was close to seventy when we met. I had read his books “The Crisis of Freedom in the World”, “Democracy Never”, “Citizens Not Subjects” and Men around the Messenger. My knowledge of him increased due to his frequent visits to the Nile Badrawi Hospital, which I and my family owned, for treatment and convalescence, and we had time for dialogue, which increased my knowledge of life, added to my sentiments, and influenced it.
Then he would invite me to his house with my father-in-law, Hassan Abu Pasha, the former Minister of the Interior, and Sheikh Tantawi, the Grand Mufti, and then the Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mosque after that, and some of his friends, in conversations in which I was the young man who learns and listens more than he speaks.
After his death, his son came to me with all his books, the last of which was “My Story with Life,” as his father had recommended. In his last book, he talked about his friends, and I was honored to be one of them. A saying he used to say to me affected me greatly, which made me discover something in myself and hold on to it and develop it to this day. He formulated what he used to say to me and to those around that in his book, saying:
“Dr. Hossam Badrawi is a brilliant and auspicious physician, who grants a passport to everyone who comes to life from sperm and wombs. He also runs his hospital based on the immortal banks of the Nile with excellent efficiency, then he is a human being, sweet in spirit, pure in bed, chaste of the tongue, reminding people of the goodness of what is in them And praises thanks to those who are credited with them.”
He used to repeat this sentence to me and others, as if he was shining a light inside me so that I could see my heart with his eyes, so I tried all my life to rise to the level he thought of me, and to always be the person that Mr. Khaled used to see, so the adjective took root, and it became one of my subconscious qualities.
And because I really see the best in people, and I see the beauty in everything around me, a constant sense of optimism and good thinking of others has deepened within me.
Yes, the influence of Khaled Mohamed Khaled was profound in my human makeup, because it also pushed me to rise to the level of what I call for in terms of values and principles.
Professor Khaled Mohamed Khaled was a contemporary Egyptian writer with a high-level style, but he was also a politician and courageous in his opinion and positions, and I was politically influenced by his dialogue in front of the masses with President Abdel Nasser in the preparation sessions for the public dialogue on the Charter, which is the document that Abdel Nasser and his men were preparing for the contract The social community of the nation in the early sixties.. so read, and learn as I learned..
What did the writer do when he found himself in confrontation with a leader like Gamal Abdel Nasser? And in front of a large audience that supports the leader or at least does not dare to oppose him. In such moments, people usually maintain the virtue of silence, but one man, Khaled Mohamed Khaled, stood steadfastly and with faith opposing President Abdel Nasser and responding to him with an argument with an argument in one of the strongest and rarest dialogues between a leader and a citizen, in front of a large audience of statesmen, and those present were all holding their breath. The audacity of the writer who confronts a ruler of the size and tyranny of Abdel Nasser.
The facts of the confrontation took place before the Preparatory Committee for the Popular Forces in November 1961, which met to discuss President Abdel Nasser’s request for the political isolation of many social forces that Abdel Nasser saw as the reason for the failure of the union with Syria, and Sadat was the Secretary General of this conference.
At the beginning of the meeting, one of the bidding speakers, like many of them to this day, got up and said, “Why are you dismissed, Chief? They want nooses!”
So Khaled Muhammad Khaled stood up and said with all courage: The revolution should never shiver from one or two families, nor from opposition or dozens of opponents. Let us fear God as much as we can in carrying out this responsibility. I know that before the revolution there was a political life that involved a lot of corruption, but I also know that it involved a lot of serious work. I am the son of this people, and the July Revolution is the result of this people, the result of their past and struggle, and the result of their mistakes and right. I demolish the people and stab them in the back when I strip them of every political advantage before the revolution.. Never.. I had fathers of whom I was proud.
And here President Abdel Nasser got up and said: The social revolution did not succeed, and it is at the beginning of the path to achieving social justice and eliminating the differences between classes, and we must secure our backs from the enemies of the people who have no interest in this revolution.
Khaled Mohamed Khaled got up and said: I wanted to speak as the president spoke, but believe me, it is not in the interest of the people to arm themselves with violent slogans. We must arm them with their good nature full of vigilance, loyalty and love. When I asked for mercy for those we call the enemies of the people, I asked for justice for them.
Jamal Abdel Nasser replied, saying: The freedom of speech exists, and for you in particular, it existed, and you were writing in Al-Ahram, and no one prevented you. I would have liked to hear from Mr. Khaled Mohamed Khaled if he said something or wrote something and it was not published. All the books he wrote have been published, and freedom of speech is widely available.
Our enemies are trying to show that we have a system that intimidates, and God has not frightened anyone until now, never, but if you are going to battle, you must be assured of the army that will fight.
We did not wrong, some judged us, so who are they who judged them?
Our ruler, the Muslim Brotherhood, are we talking about openness, and why? Did we judge them for slander? Or because they had an armed army used to pounce on this people?
The people whom we pardoned reappeared when they learned that the Americans, the British and colonialism would intervene in this country and the regime would end and they would become the new regime.
Khaled Muhammad Khaled replied: In fact, I do not deny that I personally enjoyed the freedom of speech during the era of the revolution to the furthest horizons of freedom. And I swear by God without perjury that half of my courage during the ten years in expressing my opinions came from my good faith in you. And if you please
