Freedom of opinion means freedom of criticism,There is no need for freedom of opinion without freedom of criticism, which means the interaction of different opinions with each other, to produce another opinion that leads to a better life, i.e., to progress.
Difference and variation have always been and will always be part of human nature,They are essential for creativity, A people who do not create in one or more fields are a people who do not think or criticize, and therefore do not progress, Difference and variation can only be recognized through the practice of freedom of opinion, which then allows for the identification of what is right and wrong in opinions and positions, and thus the ability to correct, evaluate, or emulate!
What is called intellectual purity has eliminated pluralism and difference, just like sectarian purity, which has eliminated sectarianism formally, It has prevented addressing sectarianism under penalty of punishment, In practice, it has been covered up, and under the curtain it grew, flourished, and festered until it exploded, and exploded life with it, Eliminating the dismantling of sectarianism does not mean the absence of sectarianism, and eliminating intellectual purity does not mean the absence of different ideas, Thus, the transition was made from the deception of sectarian purity to the reality of sectarian cleansing, As for the intellectual purity that was imposed, it was deadly in another way, for example, at the hands of the concept of monotheism, which is considered the basic pillar for imposing one opinion, one position, one belief, one God, and most importantly, one dictator, who must be protected from being afflicted by the disease of the intuition of difference and pluralism.
Monotheism is an enemy of human nature and a close friend of the distortions of this nature, In practice, monotheism and its dictatorships were able to survive for very long periods, It began with the Caliphate and lasted for a thousand years, then it moved for four centuries to the Ottomans, and after them came the internal dictatorships and were able to cancel time, as the conquerors of the Hijaz and the Ottomans did by putting the human being and his mind in the cave, Internal colonialism completed the cave-making of man, his mind and his thought, And when this man woke up as a result of the innovation of freedom that characterized the early era of the establishment of independent states after the First World War, here man found himself after independence, after he had lived in the cave of the Caliphate and the Sultanate, in another world very strange to him, which he could not understand, and the world could not understand this newly awakened one from the sleep of the people of the cave.
The one who has awakened after a colonization that lasted 1440 years has become a stranger in this universe, One of the most important features of his alienation was the strangeness of his ideas and their distance from realism and modernity, For example, some of them, and they are many, did not realize that they live in a state or even a quasi-state with a quasi-penal code and a quasi-judiciary, etc. So when the Arab-Ottoman cave creature, for example, is asked about the punishment for apostasy, he answers: The apostate is killed! The cave creature and the creature of the punishment for apostasy have not yet grasped the existence of a law and the existence of a state, and that he cannot apply the punishment for apostasy as he pleases. This person does not yet imagine any consequences of killing an apostate by another believer, These people still live in an atmosphere that is 1440 years old.
Life without freedom is a bitter oppression, but despite that, some live without freedom, that is, with an alternative to freedom,And the alternatives to freedom are many, some of which are of the same kind, such as anarchy, and some of which are its opposite and antithesis, such as obedience and submission. Obedience as an alternative to freedom! How??? Here freedom is concentrated and intensified by identifying with the sultan who has monopolized it. The sultan is free in his decisions; he decides, and the subjects obey willingly, passionately, and impulsively, If the sultan succeeds thanks to his exceptional talents, then he deserves praise, thanks, and glorification. And if he fails, it is said that it is the will of God or the will of a vile conspiracy, and the sultan, accordingly, deserves thanks, praise, and glorification as well, In truth, it can be said that the dictatorial sultan of the country is better than the likes of the people of this country, for in the mind of every individual of these people dwells a sultan similar to the sultan who rules over the people, indeed, he is an exact copy of him.
Obedience is the rule, practiced by these peoples with doctrinal certainty, Freedom is the exceptional exception, which tires those who practice it somewhat, especially when they do not know how to practice it, Obedience is the way of life in the family, according to the concept of the head of the family, and in the neighborhood and on a personal level,It is the authenticity that is represented in its greatest form in practicing the greatest obedience to the Sultan, then obedience to the text that exchanges service with the Sultan, The text has taken root in souls around the individual as a tyrant who oppresses himself and colonizes himself, and around the self-colonization, fortresses were built, which stood in the way of openness, modernity, and pollution. Pollution from others is rejected, because pollution means the possibility of the infidels’ thought seeping into the hearts of the cave dwellers!
Modernity abolishes obedience, therefore it has turned into a satanic heresy and the primary enemy, The Sultan is not alone in considering it an enemy or an ally of the enemy, but many human beings in this region consider it an ally of the enemy, who wants to divide the believers and distance them from their religion that commands obedience and submission, by which peoples colonize themselves. The demand is to exercise the right to obey, not the right to object and rebel! All of this with a high fervor that is equivalent to defending the right to life. Freedom is a creation and innovation that is tiring for some, Obedience is submission and compliance. And for centuries, these peoples have been resting in the swamp of stagnation and rigidity and practicing obedience to heaven, or to those who act on its behalf!
The results of all this were bad, and we see the badness even with the naked eye, Freedom and the troubles of creation and innovation are necessary, We do not mean the freedom that the sultan bestows upon his subjects, which is determined by his mood in terms of quantity and quality,Rather, the intention is liberation from the tyrannical self that colonizes itself with the tool of the text, The text is obligatory to obey without question or answer, The text is also obligatory to jihad, a jihad that continues in some way throughout eternity, Jihad in one of its practical forms is fighting, and fighting is the only form that remains of the system of jihad, Fighting leads either to the victory of the mujahid over the polytheist enemy, i.e., killing him. Thus, the obeyed and trusted text says to this mujahid, “Fight the polytheist, you will have Paradise and everything in it.” Or, the polytheist may be able to kill the mujahid, thus turning him into a martyr. And martyrdom in the cause of God is like opening the gates of Paradise wide open.
In conclusion, Paradise has become the last refuge for the mujahid, whether he kills or is killed, The mujahid must fight, and he must kill or be martyred, Any conflict must end with jihad, and Paradise is guaranteed for the mujahid, whether he kills or is killed. The text and obedience do not allow any alternative to the duality of killer and killed.
In this region, a person encounters attitudes and concepts that are impossible to understand and very difficult to deal with,It is not certain that cross-fertilization with them will produce a new generation that is not related to the lineage of fossils and the people of the cave,Despite this, there is no alternative to cross-fertilization and interaction, however difficult it may be, and there is no escaping the attempt to answer the questions of common life. There is no hope that the heavens will reveal the answers to the basic questions. Any negligence in paying attention to the minds of the people of the cave will lead to their return to sleep. Then their sleep may be eternal, and they will drag us with them into an eternal sleep as well.
