My comment on what’s happening

I don’t know where to start. So many mixed feelings that block your vision, therefore can affect your judgment on things. I no longer know what’s good, which is the right way, what is the right path, and where are we going.

After the Portsaid massacre, there was a lot of rage in our heart, I myself felt so angry that I wanted to stand in the street and just shout as loud as I can down with military rule. I expected an angry reaction from revolutionaries and that’s what happened. Four days now clashes are erupting near the ministry of interior. As a result we lost more Martyrs and people are dying every day.

Inside of me, or maybe inside us all, there is a war going on. Part of me is saying this is useless and that we’re fighting the wrong battle and losing lives for nothing. Another part is telling me that this is a reaction for what happened, and that people are full of rage, and that this is the right thing to do, to fight tyranny and continue our resistance and struggle for freedom.

Both ways I respect and care for those pure Egyptian faces I’ve seen in Mansour or Mohamed Mahmoud street. These youth no longer hesitate to die; they go to the street “peacefully” and stand in the face of armed soldiers trained to kill. Some will ask why they do that?? Well that’s a very wrong question in my simple opinion. The question is why there is no real trial for those who killed our brothers till today? Why we still can’t find bread? Why the political parties have sold the revolution for their interests? Why 75 from our youth were butchered in PortSaid? Before asking people why you are angry, why you rage, why do you go and demonstrate in front of the ministry of interior, Ask the people ruling all these questions. If you get an answer, just let us know please we don’t want to die every day for nothing!

The Political situation in Egypt is so complicated that it will need pages to discuss. My focus in this post was to show why people are resisting tyranny, why people no longer care about living more than they care about freedom. The people ruling this country should know that a revolution can never be broken and that in the end it will prevail whether they like it or not.

Beautiful and Inspiring Quotes by the Great Helen Keller

“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”

“As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”

“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”

“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”

“It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.”

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

“Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.” :’)

“Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”

“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”

“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.”

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”

“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”

“We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.”

“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”

All the love and prayers for the soul of Helen Keller, who’s gone from us in body, but whose soul will live forever ..

My thoughts for Tomorrow..

“To be or not to be, that is the question” I begin my post with this immortal saying by Shakespeare that have influenced a lot of lives since the 16th century.

The future is unknown, that’s simply why we are afraid from it. The unknown is mysterious, unpredictable, uncontrollable, and yet we always look forward to it.

“The most beautiful things in the entire universe, are the most mysterious” a quote that I happen to agree with. The world we see in front of us presented in a flourished over hyped way, is actually so pale, uninteresting, and ordinary. We live the life presented to us and try to make ends meet until our day comes. On the other hand the world of tomorrow although unknown, is far more interesting. The world of tomorrow is where our hopes lie, where our dreams lie, where our wishes lie. It’s a world full of adventure and expectations. When we walk in a long street we always look ahead never backwards or sidewards, we always look ahead. We look ahead because we want to reach its end and see what’s up there down the road.

What I’m trying to say in this note is that we should look to the future with a positive feeling not the opposite. The future is where our hopes lie, where our dreams of a new life full of happiness lie. The future is always a chance for a new beginning. Every sunrise there is a new opportunity for us, we should never let it slip away, we should hold to it as much as we can. Moreover everyday passes from our life without grasping it, never returns. Therefore never let go of the future, never let go of your hopes, dreams, and wishes. If you believe in yourself, nothing will stop you.

I hope my post finds you, and finds you well. I hope we can try as much as we can to be optimistic and look forward to our future, I hope we can live every moment of our life happily, I hope we can all find the peace we search for. I hope..

“Remember hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies” The Shawshank Redemption.

28th of January 2011, The Greatest Day of our Lives..”In the loving memory of all Martyrs who passed away”

So many tears… In our life, we witness happy days, sad days, days full of joy and days full of boredom. Yet, we don’t witness great days often. During a lifetime spent in a corrupt country that makes of football teams’ victory a great day, I can confess that the only great day I’ve witnessed in my life was January 28th and of course January 25th.

I’m sure years from now, when we have a true, honest, and respectable state that appreciates our January revolution, I’m sure that they will stand in front of January 28th a lot and consider it not only a national holiday, but the most important day in the history of Egypt.

Some will argue that 6th of October is the greatest, I differ with that saying. In my own opinion starting 14 and 15 October 1973 the importance of this day to me at least was gone. The October war was a miracle, yet the unmoral, unprofessional administration of Sadat during the war, made it all fade away to me at least. Therefore we have an incomplete war, the mastermind behind the success of the initial strike and one of the greatest generals in the history of Egyptian Warfare Saad el Shazly firstly thrown out of the country, then detained and imprisoned by the inhuman, criminal, murder Hosni Mubarak, and last but not least Camp David Accords that began our fade away from the international scene and led to our downfall after being followers to the US administration and the Zionist state. A lot to argue in this topic, but that’s not the issue now, maybe another day.

January 28th. Why I consider it the greatest day in the history of Egypt. There are many reasons that I can’t state here, but to me only one reason is enough, Breaking Fear in our hearts.

Before January 28^th we lived in fear. Fear of everything fear of our neighbors, fear of our coworkers, and even fear from ourselves. Egyptians were afraid to talk about politics or about what’s happening in our country from corruption and murder. When someone talked about it, people usually asked him or her to change the topic or say a joke!! That was our life before January 28^th. When this day came Jan 28^th, the Friday of Anger something changed inside us all, we became fearless.

When you stand against this day you’re just left speechless, it’s one of those few moments where talking or writing can’t add anything, just watch the pictures and see the bravery of our people  that day, something that will put you in awe all your life. Nothing in this life is worse than living in fear. Freedom is a very rare commodity in our world, and the curse of freedom is that when you touch it or feel it, you give it away only when you die. That’s one of the problems we’re facing now because these forces of evil can’t understand that we touched freedom, they don’t understand that they can’t take it from us and that we changed, we’ve become Free its now part of our soul, something within cannot be touched. .Of course I mean the free Egyptians not the people still living in their own fear waiting for a new tyrant to bring them security and don’t mind to lose their Freedom again.

I don’t want to write much, I can’t find words. I know that all our Martyrs who passed away this day are all in heaven watching over us and hoping that we continue our struggle against this corrupt regime and military dictatorship. I have only one request from them, to ask Allah to lighten our road and bless our country that deserves a lot, a lot better than what happened to its land. I wish this pure land can forgive us for what we’ve done to it all these years. Our struggle continues for Freedom, and it will continue until we can find Freedom Forever..

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم . الحمد لله رب العالمين . الرحمن الرحيم . مالك يوم الدين . إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين . اهدنا الصراط المستقيم . صراط الذين أنعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم و لا الضالين

Some of the quotes I love

“We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.” Malcolm X… All of Taxi Driver’s quotes specially:”You talkin’ to me?” Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver… “Life’s a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you’re gonna get” Sally Field, Forrest Gump. “There is no point of living if you can’t feel alive” The world is not enough.  “There is no place like home” “Rosebud” Charles Foster Kane.(Citizen Kane) “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” Sydney Carton, A Tale of Two Cities. Movies Don’t Give us only Reality…They Give us Hope For A Better Future.. “Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.” Alfred Hitchcock. “Here’s looking at you, kid.” Humphrey Bogart. “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”  “I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. I miss you, Jenny. If there’s anything you need, I won’t be far away. ” Tom Hanks,Forrest Gump. ” The Heart is an organ of fire..” Count Lazlo de Almasy,The English Patient. “Life can only be understood backward…It must be lived forward..” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. “You was my brother Charley, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn’t have to take them dives for the short-end money…You don’t understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a Contender. I coulda been Somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let’s face it” Marlon Brando,On the Waterfront. “We’re meeting in the middle….we finally caught up with each other…” Benjamin and Daisy,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”. “For anybody who’s on the downside of advantage and relying purely on courage: It’s possible.” Russell Crowe upon winning his Academy Award.. Memento Mori .. “Remember you will die.”  “Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies..” Andy Dufresne ,The Shawshank Redemption. “Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t.” Forrest Gump. “Fear can keep you prisoner…Hope can set you free” Tagline for The Shawshank Redemption. “Fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!” William Wallace, Braveheart. “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” David Copperfield. البر لا يبلى والذنب لا ينسى والديان لا يموت, افعل ما شئت فكما تدين تدان

A Powerful message of Hope..

“It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and apologized to no one. I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An inch. It is small and it is fragile and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must NEVER let them take it from us. I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the worlds turns, and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that, even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”

مسحراتى فى الطريق الصعب – فؤاد حداد

مسحراتى فى الطريق الصعب
منقراتى و كل دقه بقلب
إحنا الشعب
المصرى أول سيرة الإنسان
احنا من صخر العزيق والصبر
واحنا من طل وندى المواويل
زى ما اتعود علينا النيل
زى ما اتعود علينا العطش
يمكن خطأنا فى الزمان الطويل
كان من سبيل الرحمه والحنيه
يصعب علينا فى يوم نفارق عيالنا
وماجاش فى بالنا
زى العرق‏:‏ الدم يبنى البيوت
يا اللى الشقا من ست آلاف حبنا
اللى يزرع واللى يصنع خير بيعرف ربنا
واللى يعدل فى نصيب اليتيمه يعرف ربنا
واللى بينوّر طريق المدينه يعرف ربنا
واللى يضرب فى قلوب الأعادى يعرف ربنا
سجدت لله الكريم الهادى
والمشى طاب لى
والدق على طبلى
مسحراتى من جنود الأرض
منقراتى كل دقه بفرض
أطلب غنايا زى أب ضناه
القدس لاحت فى الطريق حاضناه
يا رب علمنى العطش والجوع
واجعل لعينى دموع
واجعل لقلبى ضلوع
واجعلنى صوت الشهيد
فى النبض والتنهيد
شريان فلسطينى شجر مزروع
فى الأرض جدر وفى الليالى فروع
يسمعنى خال فى كل بلده وعم
جرح الملاجىء عمره ما يتلم
تفنى الليالى ولا يبور الدم
ولا طيارات الأمريكان تمنع
النور من المصنع
ولا كل ريف تحت السما يسمع
طير الحمام يسجع
ولا ابن إنسان الأمل يرضع
ولا ليل شجاع يولد نهار أشجع
ولابد يوم أرجع
ويمد فى كل العرب حبلى
المشى طاب لى
والدق على طبلى
مســحـراتى يا مؤمنين
مـنـقـراتى مد الأنين
الله على رعشة الحنين
عمره ما كان الأمل ضنين
يا قدس نوارة السنين
كأن عينى فى ميتمى
يا قدس ما يحتمل دمى
الا أشوفك وأرتمى
وأبوس ترابك المريمى
أبوىَ وابنى على فمى
ما اتوهش يا قدس فى المطال
يا عاصره مهجة الرجال
سقاكِ من دمعته الهلال
يا قدس يا سبحة الشقا
الأعمى فى سجدتك رأى
والفجر من صخرتك سقى
يا قدس تتفجر الجراح
والصبر حرب وأيوب صلاح
يا أخت من مكه والبطاح
قلبى انضرب للعرب وصاح
لابد من فتح فى الصباح
المشى طاب لى
والدق على طبلى
ناس كانوا قبلى
قالوا فى الأمثال:
“الرجل تدب مطـرح ماتحب”
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وانا صنعتى مســحـراتى فى البلد جوال
حبيت ودبيت كما العاشق ليالى طوال
وكل شبر وحته من بلدى
حته من كبدى
حته من موال
لما تقول أجمل ما فى الدنيا، الميه للعطشان
يعرفوك عربى
أما للراوى ريحة البرتقان فى مداخل يافا
يعرفوك عربى
لما تقول ابنى اتولد لاجئ
يعرفوك عربى
لما تقول يا رب
يعرفوك عربى
لما تباشر جهادك، ترمى أوتادك
فى قلب دابح ولادك
يعرفوك عربى

الدكتور مصطفي محمود رحمه الله – مسرح العرائس

أشعر بالندم يا إلهي حتى نخاع العظم من أني ذكرت سواك بالأمس و هتفت بغير اسمك و طافت بخاطري كلمات غير كلماتك
سمحت لنفسي أن أكون مرآة للسراب و مستعمرة للأشباح
جهلت مقامي و نزلت عن رتبتي و ترجلت عن فرسي الأصيلة لأركب توافه الأمور و لأمشي مع السوقة و أزحف على بطني مع دود الأرض

خدعني شيطاني و استدرجني إلى مسرح العرائس الذي يديره و إلى تماثيل الطين و الزجاج و الحلي المزيفة
استدرجني إلى بيوت القماش و قصور الورق و قدمني إلى ناس يبتسمون للمصلحة و يحبون للشهوة و يقتلون للطمع و يتزاوجون للتآمر
رجال وجوههم ملساء مدهونة و نظراتهم خائنة و لمساتهم ثعبانية و نساء تغطيهن المساحيق فلا تبدو ألوانهن الحقيقية بشرتهن مشدوة و وجوههن مكوية و خطواتهن حربائية و أيديهن تتسلل إلى القلوب يسرقن كل شيء حتى الحقائق

عالم جذاب كذاب يضوع بالعطور و يبرق بالكلمات.. عالم لزج معسول تغوص فيه الأرجل كما يغوص النمل في العسل حتى يختنق بحلاوته و يموت بلزوجته
و الأصوات في هذا العالم كلها هامسة مبللة بالشهوة تتسلل إلى ما تحت الجلد و تخترق الضمائر و تأكل الإيمان من الجذور

تذكرتك يارب و أنا أمشي في هذا العالم فشعرت بالغربة و الانفصال و لم أجد أحدا أكلمه و يكلمني و أفهمه و يفهمني.. نبذوني كلهم و رفضوني كما نبذتهم و رفضتهم.. و أحسست بنفسي وحيدا غريبا مطرودا.. ملقى على رصيف أبكي كطفل يتيم بلا أم
و سمعت في قلبي صراخا يناديك
كانت كل خلية في بدني تتوب و تئوب و ترجع و سمعتك تقول في حنان.. لبيك عبدي
و رأيت يدك التي ليس كمثلها شيء تلتقطني و تخرجني من نفسي إلى نفسك
و اختفى ديكور القماش و الورق و ذاب مسرح الخدع الضوئية
و عاد اللا شيء إلى اللا شيء

و عدت أنا إليك
لا إله إلا أنت
سبحانك
و لا موجود سواك
القرب منك يضيف
و البعد عنك يسلب
لأنك وحدك الإيجاب المطلق
و كل ما سواك سلب مطلق

علمت ذلك بالمكابدة و أدركته بالمعاناة و عرفته بالدم و العرق و الدموع و مشوار الخطايا و الذنوب و أنا أقع في الحفر و أتعثر في الفخاخ.. و كلما وقعت في حفرة شعرت بيدك تخرجني بلطف و كلما أطبق عليّ فخ رأيتك تفتح لي سبيلا للنجاة.. و كلما وضعوني في الأغلال و أحكموا عليّ الوثاق شعرت بك في الوحدة و الظلمة تفك عني أغلالي و تربت على كتفي في حنان و إلهامك يهمس في خاطري.. أما كفاك ما عانيت يا عبدي
أما اتعظت.. أما اعتبرت.. أما جاء اليوم الذي تثبت فيه قدمك و تتقر خطاك على الطريق

فأقول باكيا
سبحانك يارب و هل هناك تثبيت إلا بك و هل هناك تمكين إلا بإذنك
أنت وحدك الذي أصلحت الصالحين و ثبت الثابتين و مكنت أهل التمكين
تعطي لحكمة و تمنع لحكمة و لا تسأل عما تفعل
شفيعي إليك صدقي
و عذري إليك حبي للحق
و ذريعتي إلى عفوك رغبتي في الخير
فمن خطيئاتي نبتت الحكمة كما تنمو أزهار الياسمين من الأرض السبخة
و من دموع ندمي علمت الناس فصدقوني حينما كلمتهم لأنهم رأوا كلماتي مغموسة بدمي و من عثراتي و سقطاتي أضأت مصباحا هاديا يجنب الناس العثرات
و كل من عبر طريقي قلت له كلمة صدق و دللته على السلامة

ربنا ما أتيت الذنوب جرأة مني عليك و لا تطاولا على أمرك و إنما ضعفا و قصورا حينما غلبني ترابي و غلبتني طينتي و غشيتني ظلمتي
إنما أتيت ما سبق في علمك و ما سطرته في كتابك و ما قضى به عدلك

رب لا أشكو و لكن أرجو
أرجو رحمتك التي وسعت كل شيء أن تسعني
أنت الذي وسع كرسيك السماوات و الأرض

Welcome Note

Dear Everyone,

My name is Mostafa Tamer and this is my blog spot. Here you can find many things that might interst you and help you know more about what’s happeing in our world. My focus will be on History, Politics, Entetraiment, and Arts. I hope you enjoy my blogspot and make sure to come visit again

All the best,

Mostafa

Palestine

Reblogged from :

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Don’t cry my beloved Palestine You’re the cradle of religion you’re the jewel of the region. Don’t cry my beloved Palestine brutes have occupied your sacred land but your children rose up stones in hand. Don’t cry my beloved Palestine Your womb is so generous your foe’s future is surely perilous. Don’t cry my beloved Palestine Keep on fighting and resist never compromise , give up or quit. Don’t cry my beloved Palestine You’ll free your holy land al intifada is your magical wand. Don’t cry my beloved …

A beautiful poem about my beloved Palestine (Re blogged not mine)