Oh Arabs...
The English are the beginning, the middle, and the end of evil. They are like Satan, from them evil originates and to them it ends.
They excel over Satan by having their whispers take physical forms that hurt, harm, and kill.
They have poisonous tentacles that crush, destroy, and sabotage, not unifying, but rather dividing.
They have a touch that wounds and paralyzes, a whisper that deceives and then departs.
They exceed by not being repelled by seeking refuge, recalling the heart, being vigilant, but rather being repelled by what repels from the arrogant thief with slaps, pushes, stones, and insults.
They are repelled by the steadfastness during the confrontation, the determination to break away and cut ties, the firm will to boycott in actions, and the consensus held on one word like the word of faith: "The English are your enemies, so consider them as such." Every Arab should repeat it with their tongue, make it the creed of their conscience, the bond of their soul, and the best offering they present.”
You have been deceived by the English from the beginning, so I warn you not to be deceived by them in the end after their evil has been exposed, their secret revealed, and their true nature unveiled, from all their cunning and thorns.
They strategized and learned from you the weaknesses and vulnerabilities within your souls, before they even knew such things within your own lands.
They identified the flaws within your souls before they were able to exploit the vulnerabilities of your country and turn the Arab princes into a submissive class, indebted and dependent on foreigners.
The ominous promise
You know well that they promised Zion and strengthened its cause. If it wasn't for their promise, Zionism today - just as it was yesterday - would have been nothing more than a dream exploited by the cunning.
You know well that they assumed authority over Palestine and became the judge and jury in its affairs, only delegated to fulfill their promises, achieving their dreams through oppression, forcefully taking away your land, manipulating the weak with fear, and manipulating the poor with financial threats, until they forced many of you out of your homes, turning you into laborers and commodities, constructing cities with your hands, exploiting your resources, and building their industries and markets, extracting wealth from your lands.
Encouraging Zionists Immigration
You know well that they encouraged immigration, allowing the Zionists to multiply on your lands.
When you realized the danger, they deceived you with both legitimate and illegitimate means, making you overlook their deceit.
They fooled you from the English side, and you did not learn from their deception. They deceived you just as they deceived your ancestors, winning over your leaders and elites, enticing you with their luxuries, and found you always offering politeness, continued interactions, only displaying eagerness when it suited them, and clinging to their ways.
They are rich as long as they rob
You have been warned because the English may be rich and you poor? Or because they are strong and you weak?
No... They are rich because of you and others like you who they exploit, not rich without your resources. They are powerful because they derive their strength from your land and your pockets.
Cut off their resources, so they wither and weaken. They should feel neglected in opinions and strength, build your island so that theirs crumbles.
The roar of the lion comes from instilling fear in the hearts, but the roar of the British lion is an imitation, if every nation were to retrieve their hair from the mane behind which fear lies, the lion would become a neck-bare cat, with a hollow chest, displaying frailty and exhaustion.
Wealth is work and management … Strength is will
Wealth is work and management, so if you work, you would be rich; and the beginning of wealth starts with the richness of the self by refraining from luxuries and abstaining from desires. Strength is will, not compulsion, so if you want to be strong, you can. The beginning of strength comes from the strength of morals and unity.
The rest of them
These are the first English that you knew, do you know the rest of them? They were tools of division in the past and were helping the time against you. When they saw your unity and gathering, they gathered all their schemes and traps against you.
They aim for your major interests, and in their pockets are things that the sly fox doesn't have. They have the veins of the Arab body in their hands, they press on them as they please, they have the Egypt issue to negotiate and maximize, the Sudan issue to wave and contradict, and the Libya issue to instigate and challenge.
In their grip is the East of Jordan with all that it entails, and the East of Jordan is nothing but a noose and a hangman's rope, they killed it with their own hands and ordered its death at their own will. They have Iraq and its resources, Yemen and its accessories, and they have an indebted hand over Syria and Lebanon, within which lies deceit and manipulation, and in their hands are the keys to the peninsula and its princes, they have prepared a key for each lock of it, and a reign for each prince from either desire or fear.
You are not Weak
Despite all of this, among you are watchful eyes and sharp tongues, and among you are listening ears and ambitious spirits, in their records are your debts, aspirations, and values, they have estimated them carefully and analyzed them thoroughly.
They only move forward with the Greater Syria project at known times to incite you against each other and lure one house against another, Quraysh against Tameem, causing discord and disunity.
The highest level of English cunning
This point is the highest level of English cunning and the hardest test for the Arab conscience, which wishes for unity among Arabs but due to their own inclinations not at the hands of their enemies.
The English are capable of inciting other divisive conflicts, and you - Arabs - should not challenge them without uniting against them, stopping their aggression, and establishing your gathering according to the interest of the Arabs and the Arab homeland, above individual interests and personal gains.
Create a united front
You should not counter their schemes with the strength of the Arab League alone, but reinforce it with the unity of the Arab peoples. Create a united front that will scare and deter them.
He who conceals his disease kills himself
In this statement, we have touched upon bitter truths and hinted at issues that we do not wish to exacerbate further. But what excuse do we have if we refrain from explanation, even if it causes harm; we have inherited from our Arab ancestors this precious wisdom: "He who conceals his disease kills himself."
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Published in issue number (24) of the "Al-Basa'ir" newspaper, February 23, 1948.
