إن الأطفال الصغار يتحولون إلى طيور في الجنة, أما الشهداء فهم طيور الدنيا الجميلة, لأنهم أكثر الناس حباً للحرية, تظل تناديهم, يجرون وراءها, و لأنها تحبهم تواصل اللعب معهم, تعلو و تهبط فيصعدون خلفها و ينزلون, يفتشون عنها في كل مكان, و هم لا يعرفون أنها مختبئة في أجسادهم.
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The Message of the kids to the world
With the name of the merciful Allah…
Peace be upon you all…
A good greeting…
At first, I was afraid…
I wasn’t used to listening… I wasn’t used to watching…
I wasn’t used to neither talking nor thinking…
I wasn’t willing to change…
But now Egypt is new…
And I have to make something useful…
And if I am going to start, I will start from my place…
Because if I am going to make a change, I will have to start by myself…
That’s why I am going to change and…
I am not going to throw rubbish on the ground…
I am going to say the truth and I am not going to be afraid…
I am going to finish all the food in my plate…
I am going to eat more vegetables…
I am going to drink a lot of milk…
I am going to listen from people not about them…
I am going to know about the elections’ programs of all the candidates before deciding…
I am not going to pull my sister’s hair again…
You cannot… =D
I am going to clean my room…
I am going to make all the prayers at the Masjd…
I am going to go to the Masjd and learn more Quran…
I am going to follow the orders of my mother and my father even if it was hard…
I am going to follow Allah’s disciplines because Allah loves me and knows where the good is for me…
That’s what I am able to do…
I am willing to do more things…
But I am still young…
What about you the elder…?!
Where is the change…?!
This is the message of the Egyptian kids at the Shooting Club to the world… They are trying to make a change in Egypt after the revolution…
And I will keep on saying: “Children are here in order for us to learn from them not the opposite” =))
من كتابات الشيخ محمد الغزالي
فقدان المناعة النفسية أو الخلقية يعود إلى ضعف التربية أو سوء التنشئة ونمو الطفل وهو محروم من ضوابط الخلق الزاكى والعبادة السامية والعادات والتقاليد التى تحرس عقله وتصون مسلكه وتشعره بأن هذا حسن يستمسك به، وهذا ردئ يبتعد عنه، وهذا امرؤ فاضل يحترم وهذا امرؤ فاشل يزدرى…
والأسرة بلا ريب هى المهاد الأول لهذا التكوين الأدبى، إن الإنجاب المجرَّد ليس وظيفة الأسرة، فإن الدواب والطيور والزواحف تتناسل وتتكاثر، وميزة البشر أنهم يلدون ويعلمون ويربون، وعندما تفقد الأسرة قدرتها على حماية الطفولة وتزويدها بالخصائص الرفيعة فلا قيمة لنتاجها.
Entering the Nubian village… By my first steps on its land… I saw him sitting there… With all the kids’ innocence… Playing with the drum…
On seeing him, I got a spirit of joy and happiness… I got a feeling of inner peace… I got a kind of freedom…
I smiled at him… So he smiled too…
I asked him about his name and he answered me with his Nubian accent saying;”Abd El-Razak”… I asked him to take a picture of him and he accepted gratefully… I took it and I got a feeling of extreme satisfaction…
Then, on my way back from the village… Through the great Nile… I began to wonder…
Since those kids are born in such kind of nature, Great Nile… Strong mountains…. Green Valleys…. Why aren’t they grown up as innovators?… Why don’t we hear that one of them is the best writer in the world?… Why don’t we get to know that one of them invented something new?…
Those questions aroused in my mind… I think that those questions should be answered… I think we have to take an action…
(It was captured on the first days of September, 2010 at Aswan and it was originally written on the 14th of September, 2010).
“Now Woody, he’s been my pal for as long as I can remember. He’s brave, like a cowboy should be, and kind and smart. But the thing that makes Woody special is he’ll never give up on you…ever. He’ll be there for you, no matter what.”
- Andy talking to Bonnie in the final scenes of Disney Pixar’s, Toy Story 3.
Feeling safe…
Where…?! When…?! How…?!
Yes, I feel it… I feel it when your tiny hand is in mine… When you were taking your first steps on the ground… When you were learning to walk… You were feeling safe because I am holding your hands in mine… You were feeling safe because I will never let you down… You were feeling safe because you will never be ruined because I am there…
But, I felt safe too… I felt safe because you were, my little tiny, beside me… I felt safe because you were smiling for just holding your hands… You were smiling for carrying you up in the air and flying you out…
You, your hands, and your smile made me feel safe… Made me feel happy… Made me see hope…
Your smile, my little tiny, shines my world =)
(It was originally written on the 8th of June, 2010).
