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Badrawi in Al-Masry Al-Youm writes:
Gibran said, and I said about half
“Do not sit with half-lovers, do not make friends with half-friends, do not read for half-talented people, do not live half-life, do not die half-death, do not choose half a solution, do not stand in the middle of reality, do not dream half a dream, do not relate to half a hope. If you are satisfied, express your satisfaction, do not fake half satisfaction, and if you refuse.. Express your rejection, because half of the refusal is acceptance.. Half is a life you did not live, a word you did not say, a smile you postponed, a love you did not reach, a friendship you did not know Half is what makes you weird. Half is to arrive and not arrive, to work and not to work, to be absent and to attend.. Half a road will not lead you anywhere, and half an idea will not give you a result. Half is the moment of your helplessness and you are not helpless.. Because you are not half a human being. You are a human being who exists to live life, not to live half a life.”
And I say: Are we ready to choose, and are we ready for a political decision that serves the economy and changes the shape of the country’s future politically, socially and culturally… Or do we want half open and half closed?
Do we want a strong private sector that creates jobs, or do we want a public sector controlled by the state and its organs, or half of that and half of that selectively?
Do we want to get rid of poverty and be rich, or do we want equality in poverty because we are in the middle?
Do we want a strong civil society and sustainable civil associations that support and grow, or do we impose laws that kill it in its cradle and prevent it under the pretext of security?
We are in the middle, we want and we don’t..Unfortunately, what we want changes according to events, as reactions, not as initiatives.
Are we a civil state or a religious state? Everything that happens in front of me says that we are in the middle. We are neither a religious state in its full sense nor a civil state in its full meaning. We do not clearly prevent religion and its men from interfering in politics. Rather, the regime uses their terms and phrases sometimes to assert authority Repeatingly saying that accountability is only from God and not from society.
We are in the middle of getting the control of religion in politics without declaring it, and we call for citizenship and our actions include a ridiculous distinction between citizens who differ in religion, and we do not accept anyone who dares to say otherwise. We are in half. Are we a security state or a modern civil state, as the constitution says?! We are in half. Our words are civil, and the truth of our actions is an unequivocal security state.
Do we want to reward the capable and committed producer, or do we favor everyone and distribute profits to those who do not earn, those who do not work, and those who do not excel? We are in the middle. Whoever stands in the middle does not reach any finish line and does not achieve a life. Let’s set our goals and go for it and not stop in half. Do we really respect freedom of expression, or do we only respect freedom of expression if the regime supports it, and we do not respect it if it opposes it, but rather prevent and punish it? We are in the middle.
In defense of the half inspired by a poem by Akkad in defense of Satan. The true half is the point of balance in the universe and in man. The half is the meeting of two identical, complementary, or opposite parts, and development occurs. Half is the meeting of opposing ideas and agreement occurs.
The half may be the pomegranate of the scale by which justice is achieved in the judiciary, for example.
Tribal and sectarian political systems of all kinds, monarchy of all kinds, and republic of all kinds must converge on agreed-upon bases.
In it, the forces are balanced and converge on moderate foundations. We do not find a pure dictatorship, pure communism, pure monarchy, pure republic, pure military, pure police, pure capitalism, or even pure civility. This is not part of the complex nature of creation. compositions. It is necessary to find systems that respect balance by designing and devising a constituent assembly that is enlightened and familiar with the circumstances, traditions, history and experiences of this country, so that it creates a system in which all segments of society work in productive harmony and mutual benefit. For example, the invented Swiss system due to the circumstances of Switzerland in particular, which on its paper is not suitable for application in Egypt. The real effort now is not only in the decision to stop swinging on both sides of the mid-point, but is in creating a real middle civil/military system suitable for operation in Egypt, with a middle genius of course composition, wealth, and location, so what prevents us from being a civil and military republic, if we can choose from the middle of all these roads with an enlightened political and economic craftsmanship?
The suffering of the peoples has been proven under fully communist, fully capitalist, fully dictatorial, fully tribal and fully monarchical regimes. As well as semi-randomized systems. The time has come for the emergence of a harmonious system between civil and military, suitable for operation and leading to sustainable development and the ability to compete, both civilly and militarily, in Egypt in particular.
“Basically inspired by Kahlil Gibran’s poem On the Half”.
