You are not alone O’ Sayyed

Khalil Harb

Were you ever a guest in their castles, kingdoms, and sheikhdoms, such that they forbid you and your family from them now?! Did they even once come to you as a brother, supporter, or ally, so that they betray you and your lovers now?!

Did they not betray you and play down (the ability) of your men every time they rose to ward off the snake bite of the enemy? Do you remember the day when they distanced themselves from "your adventure" in 2006, and when you and us persevered, some of them came in celebration of the huge national event? Did you not tell them to exclude us from their evil and leave us alone, and that we know best how to fight our enemy (who is also their enemy)?

Did they not accuse Gaza after you of carrying out an "adventure" when it rose to demand milk for its children?

Whoever slaughters a Sheikh such as "al-Nimr" because he roared in the faces of those who violated his rights, whoever whips a poet for (writing) a poem, or a blogger who complained, is not able to put up with your truthfulness, words, and might.

How similar is today to yesterday. You (lead) the funeral procession of our martyr Hajj Alaa al-Bosni in Ansar, while they gather behind you in order to strike you with one treacherous blow. Likewise, during the age when you were still a child - and when "Hezbollah" was not around, nor were you being accused of meddling in their affairs - Jamal Abdel Nasser was lamenting our martyr Khalil Izzedine al-Jamal, as his funeral procession extends from the Jordan Valley to Syria and the Bekaa, and the Omari Mosque, reaching all the way to Tariq al-Jadideh. At that time, they were uniting their daggers, and their voices, in fighting him and labelling him a disbeliever!

How similar is today with yesterday? Sheikh Ragheb Harb roams around with his worn-out religious garb, collecting money from the benevolent of this vast nation to provide orphaned children with a decent shelter, while firing the bullet of (the famous line) "shaking hands is recognition", and he does not find as you - who does not seek neither money or prestige - find today, neither a king nor prince from them, as a helper or supporter for our defenceless people who are under the rifles of occupation.

Was not Damascus and Tehran the only brothers of his, like they are for you today? Were not the rifles of our misguided brothers aimed sometimes at the "Iranian Revolution", and sometimes at the Soviet "infidels", while at other times against all the opponents of "imperialism" throughout the world? They are the same "brothers", and their daggers are the same daggers too.

All this time you were alone O' Sayyed, while they are ashamed of their Arabism, Islam, homelands, and often their people, so they lead them into losing, miserable, and misguided battles, just as they themselves are. How many times have they played tricks, sometimes in the name of "peace", in order to fight you, and at other times in the name of "sects", in order to besiege what you and your companions stand for, and what all your friends who preceded you stood for, on the path towards true Arabism and Palestine? Gangs of ignorance which they have created today as a weapon against you - did they not come out of the wombs of their misguidance? Were they (the gangs) not crowned in their media, podiums, and capitals, as revolutionaries and angels, in the fires of Basra, Damascus, Sanaa, Benghazi, and Algeria...?

Did they not say earlier that Kabul has precedence over al-Quds? Did they not say that Khoramshahr, Abadan, and Tehran are more worthy of destruction than the Zionists?

Tomorrow history will say you were alone. A loud voice in a world silent towards the shedding of Yemeni, Syrian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Egyptian, and Libyan blood. History will also say that the hands of the killer will always be stained with blood, and he will not be victorious. And you, you O' Sayyed, if you were in a time and place other than ours, you would have been crowned as a king over the land, authentic, loyal, and noble.
No, you are not alone O' Sayyed...perhaps we are a minority, just like the orphans of Sheikh Ragheb. However, we are with you.