Difference and variation have always been and still are part of human nature, in addition to being necessary for creativity, Difference and variation can only be discovered with the availability of freedom of opinion, i.e., allowing for frankness, which then allows for the correct or incorrect recognition of opinions and positions, and thus allows for correcting the crookedness of some of them or following the example of others.
There are obstacles to the exercise of freedom of opinion, including intellectual purity and sectarian purity, Purity has formally eliminated sectarianism by preventing discussion of it under penalty of punishment, In practice, it has been covered up, and under the veil, it has grown, flourished, and festered until it exploded, and life exploded with it, Eliminating the discussion of the issue of sectarianism does not mean eradicating sectarianism, but rather protecting sectarianism from criticism and ensuring its transfer to secret practice, Thus, peoples moved from the deception of sectarian purity to the reality of sectarian cleansing, As for intellectual purity, which was imposed in the context of combating freedom of opinion , it was deadly in another way, Most forms of imposition were based on the concept of unity, that is, one opinion, one position, one belief, one God, and most importantly, one dictator, who must be protected from being afflicted by the disease of freedom, for the dictator of the stagnant swamp dies in pure, clear water.
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: the Caliphate and a thousand years of Arab Bedouin rule, then four Ottoman centuries, and after that, dictatorships and their ability to abolish time, The Ottomans put the human being and his thought in the cave for four centuries, then came internal colonialism to complete the cave-ification of man, his mind, and his thought, When this man awoke as a result of the innovation of freedom, which mainly created democracy, he found himself facing another world, which he could not understand, nor could the world understand the newly awakened,The awakened one became a stranger in this world, and one of the most important features of his alienation was the strangeness of his thoughts, Thus, modernity and patient democracy had to embrace the worthless in its abundance and the precious in its scarcity, and encourage cross-fertilization between them… perhaps !
People cannot live in the absence or suppression of freedom without an alternative, And the alternatives to freedom are many, some of which are of the same kind and some of which are its opposite and antithesis, Obedience may be the alternative, obedience as an alternative to freedom…how??? Here freedom is concentrated and intensified by the sultan who has monopolized it, The sultan is free in his decisions,He decides and the subjects obey willingly, passionately and with fervent faith. 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 sultan of the country is better than the people of this country, for in the mind and heart of every individual of these people dwells a sultan similar to the sultan who rules over the people, indeed, he is a carbon copy of him.
Obedience is a way of life practiced by these people with great skill, while freedom is the exceptional exception, something they struggle to practice and don’t truly understand. Obedience is the way of life for the family and the neighborhood; it is the authenticity that manifests itself most profoundly in the supreme obedience to the ruler, obedience to the text that serves the ruler in turn, These texts are deeply ingrained in people’s minds, transforming the individual into a tyrant who oppresses and colonizes himself, Around this self-colonization, fortresses are built, standing against openness, modernity, and perceived pollution,Pollution from others is unacceptable because it implies the possibility of what the infidels have done seeping into people’s hearts. Modernity is a satanic heresy and the people’s primary enemy,The ruler is not alone in considering it an enemy or an ally of the enemy; many people in these lands consider it an ally of the enemy who seeks to divide people and distance them from their faith and from the sacred texts with which they colonize themselves, The populist demand is the right to obey, not the right to object. And the rebellion, all of that with an impulse that is equivalent to defending the right to life and the right to refuse death!
Freedom is a tiring process of creation and innovation, while obedience is mere submission and compliance, For centuries, nations have languished in the swamp of stagnation and rigidity, practicing obedience to heaven and its representatives,The results of all this have been disastrous and catastrophic, a disastrous reality we can clearly see. Freedom, along with the challenges of development and innovation, is essential, We are not referring to the freedom bestowed by rulers upon their people, a freedom defined by their whims in every way, Rather, we primarily mean liberation from the tyrannical self that colonizes itself through the tools of scripture and obedience. The scripture demands unquestioning obedience, It also mandates jihad, a continuous struggle in some form throughout time, One practical form of jihad is combat, and combat is the only remaining aspect of the jihadist system,Combat leads either to the victory of the mujahid over the polytheistic enemy—that is, killing him—in which case the obeyed and trusted scripture tells this mujahid, “Fight the polytheist, and Paradise and all that is in it is yours.” Or, the polytheist may manage to kill the mujahid, thus transforming him into a martyr, Martyrdom in the path of God is considered the opening of the gates of Paradise, In short, Paradise is the final refuge for the mujahid, whether he kills or is killed. The mujahid must fight and he must kill or be martyred.
Therefore, any dispute must end with either a killer or the killed to guarantee paradise, The text and obedience do not allow any alternative to the duality of killer and killed , Indeed, man of this era clashes with positions 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 sleepers of the people of the cave, Despite that, there is no alternative to cross-fertilization and interaction, however difficult it may be, and there is no escape from trying to answer the questions of life, There is no hope that heaven will inspire us with the answers that man must provide, Every failure to awaken the minds of the people of the cave will lead to their return to sleep, Then their sleep will be eternal, and they will drag us with them into an eternal sleep as well.
Difference and variation have always been and still are part of human nature, in addition to being necessary for creativity, Difference and variation can only be discovered with the availability of freedom of opinion, i.e., allowing for frankness, which then allows for the correct or incorrect recognition of opinions and positions, and thus allows for correcting the crookedness of some of them or following the example of others.