Against Collapse
Amal Ahmed Tibidi
It is said:
(How naïve we are when we believe that the law is a vessel for justice and truth. Here, the law is merely a container for the ruler’s will, or a garment tailored to fit him perfectly.)
Political systems derive legitimacy through justice, development, the fulfillment of rights, attention to economic issues, education, healthcare, and the establishment of security.
Legitimacy is stripped away when corruption spreads, the economy collapses, rights are violated, the balance of justice is disrupted, and the outcome is a rise in suffering.
Our political reality is beyond description. Regimes have failed to develop and uplift their countries despite available resources, while opposition movements draw their strength from external support, openly slipping into the realm of dependency and betrayal. The majority even declare and justify this through false slogans. This narrow-mindedness has driven us into a phase where everything has become permissible.
We have halted the engines of production, allowing the voices of disputes and conflicts to rise. Each party follows its own agenda—one from which the homeland and the citizen have been deliberately erased.
The mindsets controlling decision-making centers remain barren. There is an absence of renewal and development, clearly reflected in the tools used for reconstruction: a lack of modern mechanisms and the absence of a strategic vision.
We still stand at the station of reform in a primitive manner. When we attempted to beautify the capital, modern painting mechanisms could have been used to save time and effort. Instead, dust is removed in backward ways—why not put an end to this dust that is cleared in the morning only to return at night to paved streets?
We operate outdated trains that time has long surpassed. Why is this sector not developed, when it plays a major role in advancing trade and industry? Any political system incapable of building the nation, driven by deficient mindsets and reliant on oppression, will not endure.
If resources were properly channeled, the capital and the states would witness urban and industrial development comparable to that of major countries.
Our backwardness and economic collapse stem from corruption and civil wars, for which the political regimes that ruled bear responsibility—especially those that weakened the army by creating militias.
The survival of any political system is tied to genuine reform, not to statements and political maneuvering. We must commit to speeches that unite rather than divide, and to plans that build and reconstruct.
Let the era of farce come to an end, along with minds that think only of their own interests.
(A nation prospers only through three things: a just ruler, a sincere scholar, and a devoted worker.)
