O Human...By My Soul and My Blood I Defend You!

I’m a Human….I support the human being; this is my duty towards my race. I even support the animal and provide him with my help if he is oppressed by another! I wonder does helping the oppressed require searching his ID card for the “Religion Column”?! Or to search for his “Thought”?! Or is “Injustice” “Darkness”?! I wonder will it be possible in the “Planet of Change” to fight every “Unjust Behavior”? To hold the oppressed hand without looking for a “Cross” in it or delve into his forehead for the “Mark of Prostration”?! Enough for us that it is a trembling hand from flesh and blood, a hand we want to calm down and rest…and it is enough for us that it is a panicked face that we want to pacify and make it smile!!

I'm a Human…When I see another human persecuted in the street or being robbed by a group of thieves, I try to help him and I don't ask about his identity or his religion to look if he deserves my help! As I don't also ask the thieves about theirs in order for them to obtain a share of my resistance! “Injustice” does not need to show the identity card in order to resist it, for our human nature alienates from it, and “Justice” does not require searching inside the chests in order to acknowledge it, because our human nature longs for it!

I’m a Human…I get the rights of the oppressed from his oppressor, from a human to another. Hence, aid cannot be provided only for humans who adopt the same religion as mine, in order to ask in the first place is that a “Muslim” or a “Christian”?!! Help is due to all those who apply the “Contents of Religions”, and seek to achieve the “Noble Values” ​​that elevate the human, whether they realized that what they practice of the “Human Values” ​​are religion or not, for religions are not slogans. Thus, those who apply “Justice”, sought to “Liberate” people from “Injustice”, and stick to the best ethics, are the ones who deserve support even If they believe in a religion that is different than mine. While those who stick by hatred and live for injustice and plunder the rights of others, deserve my enmity even If they were on my religion.

Religions are not slogans which can impose on me loyalty towards those who cheer them, for not every person who identify himself as a Christian is pious, as not everyone who holds the name Mohammad is a Prophet. “Noble Values” and “Classy Behaviors” are the “Contents of Religions”, so whoever embodies them achieves their intention even If he doesn't know that they are religion, he actualizes their goal in this world, and as for the Hereafter it is for Allah (God) to decide.

I’m a Human…I do not get myself occupied with assessing people based on how they view their Lord in the sky! For that is between them and God! What really concerns me is the way they look at their neighbors on Earth, and by this look they gain my sympathy and support, or my advice, or I declare war against them.

By Wael Adel

Translated by Rana Mohammed

January 23^rd, 2012