A Cup of Tea with Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

He hugs you asking about your personal state and your country's situation as if he didn't forget one detail or one word of our last meeting which took place four years ago. He reviews with you the major changes and developments and hopes that you can be frank with him and say what you think and believe whether right or wrong.

This is the man who preoccupied the minds of all people, the man who militarily and morally defeated the "Israelis". This is the man who changed the balances on the ground, starting with defeating the panic, dismay, weakness, and hesitation within us. This is the man whose tone of voice implies that he wishes to be exempted from fighting on the other political and security fronts, but at the same time controls all his movements internally and externally, in accordance with the occurrences on the southern arena, and who doesn't hesitate to soften his stances to safeguard the real front.

In an unknown place, I met him... He put his hand on my chest, asking: "How's the heart now?" His dignity and solemnity precedes his presence and his smile precedes his shaking of hands, his friendliness and sincere affection, spreading comfort and confidence in the place. His intelligence was higher than ever and his mood was even greater... just as if the eternal, continuous, and low profile confrontations with "Israel" boost him more and more...As far as this prohibited topic is tantamount to sanctities, he becomes more open to the other's opinion, dialogue, criticism, and review concerning all items... from Beirut to Cairo. You feel that he sometimes hates the necessity, yet resorts to it to protect the "path of the Mujahideen" or even under the umbrella of the "last treatment."

He feels pain as to all those who fall in the wrong arena and in the wrong way and maintains that infighting and internal strife weaken the weapons of the resistance. He dreams that a confrontation plan against "Israel" would be the national and confessional identity of Lebanon. He dreams that its scope becomes wider at the Lebanese and Arab levels, not at the levels of the sects and regions.

He dreams... and knows that there are difficulties preventing this dream from being reality. He believes that capabilities, differences, stances and principles, hinder it.

Yet, he doesn't retract and doesn't surrender to boredom. All sacrifices are easy for him vis-à-vis the land, dignity and religion given that he even offered his own son, Hadi, who was honored with martyrdom. Talking about Hadi is something else. The eyes shine with crystals of sadness combined with glory and pride, reflecting another picture of the Resistance-and-Liberation Sayyed who refuses to give "Israel" a picture that could raise the morale of its defeated soldiers.

He asks me about Kuwait and the Kuwaitis from the perspective of a person seeking to be informed. His heart is with the special and exclusive experience and his eyes are set on how to counter sedition schemes. He calls on Shiites and Sunnis to look upon the state as their authority.

With his eminence, the cup of tea has a special taste. It's always filled with things, some of which can be published and some of which cannot. You feel how much he desires to make direct meetings with the people, communicate with his smaller and bigger families, how much he'd love to share moments with the Mujahideen and to pray in the holy Al-Quds.

The cup of tea becomes empty because the Sayyed's preoccupations are too many. However, words are endless. Yet, the upcoming developments started to emerge as Abu Hadi is promising us a lot... but this time in the battlefields!