Love and Yemen

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That love which is like a duty — yes, like homework. How is it classified as love? How can a person love another from a distance?

There must be a look, and then a smile (if a girl smiles at you, there is a high chance she gave you the green light to talk to her — the green light is a phrase used in military war operations against nations).

Back to love: I used to wonder, when listening to songs and watching movies, that the topic must always revolve around woman, love, romance, the lovesick lover and Qais bin Sa'id (the current president of green Tunisia) and Layla — and what do you know of Layla: her words, her beauty, her honey-like nature, plus her cooking. Oh, how I crave it.

Back to the topic of love: when I watched American movies on the Middle East channel MBC2, I used to ask a childish question: can there possibly be a movie without a heroine? I found the answer: it rarely exists, or if I may say so, seldom ever.

So the purpose of the existence of songs — which are not music — and movies: to fill people's minds and steer them in a specific direction; and the more affected people are, the easier it is to control them.

Let us return to love and completing half of the religion: yes, half of the religion is completed by marriage, and the other half by morals, good treatment, and then the physical acts of worship and so on.

If you want to know that you love the person before you and want to spend your life with them in this fleeting world (fleeting means it will end one day, whenever God wills), then imagine them without sexual desire (and note: sexual desire was placed in humans to preserve and protect the progeny).

As al-Jahiz said in al-Bukhala' about a man of nearly eighty years, or so it is said ninety: "Whoever needs something, his resolve is stirred."

As is well known, necessity is the mother of invention — but we do not see this thing effective in Yemen. Why?

Under oppression and injustice, a person from within — that is, the human soul — avoids waging war with the oppressor, and begins to be satisfied with what he has, cocoons himself in his surroundings, and forms a comfort zone. If the oppressor's injustice toward the oppressed increases, the tables turn on the sorcerer, because we live in the world of "the universe and corruption": if the energy of injustice increases and overwhelms the energy of justice, a submissive generation arises, content with humiliation, wary of death because it has never tasted freedom. To raise freedom, the people must be educated through specific, useful, short and beneficial messages; and the individual must bear the responsibility himself — first toward himself, then toward his family, then toward his community — and begin, set the goal before his eyes, give it a timeframe, take the initiative, and be the change he wants; and avoid waiting for the war to stop, for the war will not stop on its own — for those unaffected, war is a quick profit and a lucrative trade, so why would you want to stop their trade? Therefore education became a duty. My initiative may be a post, but be, through your own initiative, the person you wish would reform Yemen and lift it from the triad (backwardness, ignorance, and poverty) to awareness, development and wealth — which enables us to establish a state capable of utilizing its resources in the best possible way.

And peace be the seal.

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