Ashraf: The dialectic of ethics and politics! – The face of the truth – ✍️ Ibrahim Shaqlawi

At a time when interests are mixed with principles and politics rides morality, humanitarian crises become a criterion of sincerity of values. Where the suffering of journalist Ashraf Abdel Aziz, publisher -in-chief of the Al-Jarida newspaper, with renal failure, due to the complications of high blood pressure, represents a difficult test for everyone: how can we approach the human dimension and controversial situations?

In such circumstances, it is difficult to separate clear moral law and complex policy accounts. An important question arises: is mercy simply a circumstantial response or a vision that goes beyond the stories, and re-detests the limits of moral action? Can sympathy be practiced as a humanitarian duty regardless of a memory overwhelmed by shameful positions towards the country?

I write these words for my personal knowledge of Ashraf Abdel Aziz since the end of 2017, when I was responsible for the media coordination council for the electricity and irrigation sector, at the end of Minister Dr. Moataz Musa. We had closed meetings with the newspaper editors of the newspaper to discuss sensitive files, and it was one of the most important and acute of dialogue and understanding, without prejudice to the professionalism of the situation or the reserve requirements.

Ashraf was more than a simple opposition journalist. Behind his media experience, an inseparable personal story extends from his career; In the 90s of the last century, people knew him as a fighter among the young people of the Islamists, who saw the fight against southern rebellion as a national and religious duty, then became famous for the title of “Ashraf Doshka”. Before that, he was the leaders of Islamic students at the University of Khartoum. This inheritance, with all that he and what he has, should not be erased and does not lose sight of when reading his current positions, no matter how the controversy occurs.

The president of the recent decision of Al -Burhan to ensure his treatment, sparked a broad discussion in the environment of the press: was the decision a pure humanitarian response? Or a decrease to an opposition letter described as a bias at the quick support militia?

But the most worthy question: are humanitarian positions measured by the balance of political loyalty? Is the state right to choose who is treated according to their positions, or should it rise above the programming and embrace all the inhabitants of the country?

The state of health that Ashraf crosses cannot tolerate interpretation, neither medically nor human. It is a patient who needs an urgent treatment, and perhaps for continuous care that exceeds their own capacities. Consequently, giving him treatment does not mean adopting his positions or justifying them, but can be the opposite: a position based on the values of justice and tolerance, and to differentiate the person who needs care and between his ideas which remain subject to debate and legal responsibility.

In a society like Sudan, it was historically known as the cultivation of forgiveness and solidarity, it is not correct for medical care to transform into arena to settle accounts. It is a country in which the neighbor was nourished by his opponent if he fell ill, and the blood is repeated with amnesty and reconciliation despite the sorrows. Is it suitable for us to waste these values in a moment that requires the testimony of history?

The “conquest of Mecca” was the moment when the state was founded on the basis of overcoming political counteratthe and an example of re-producing. The forgiveness that the Prophet Muhammad gave his opponents at the time, was not weak, but rather an adult policy which aimed to end the conflict and to build a fair state. In the Sudanese context, war has shown that zero conflicts and revenge speeches have only been led to fragmentation, division and entry from foreigners.

Perhaps the time of the treatment of Ashraf Abdel Aziz to use the idea of the “full national project”, which can accommodate the difference without rewarding violence, and embraces the error without justifying the error. A project which is based on the examination of political thought, with the fragility of the war, and the will to many to slip into the speech of hatred and exclusion.

In this context, we call the saying of the philosopher Nipur and Mile: “The homeland is not a party, neither an army, nor an leader. The homeland is what remains when slogans are turned off and values remain. ”

These words remind us that real affiliation is not based on speeches of enthusiasm or circumstantial situations, but rather values that bring us together, the ability to forgive and contain, and to face the other as an examined human whatever the difference in difference.

The country seeking to build the future does not begin to exclude the different and does not kill the spirit of tolerance, but that it refines it with justice, examination, transparency and the rule of law. In the same context, the great sovereign, who realizes his historical role in the direction of the nation, should not be drowned in identification with his supporters or his opponents, but must always be held at the same distance from everyone.

With this understanding, according to the face of the truth, the support of treatment for those who did not agree with you on the opinion does not become a reward or a repentance, but an expression of the responsibility of the leadership which sees among citizens, equal in rights and duties. As for the moral classification – which is the hero and which is disgraced – it is not the power to determine it, but rather people have the right to formulate it by the testimony of history, law, collective conscience and political experience. Consequently, when power is aware of this precise balance between mercy and justice, and between responsibility and discipline, it has what weapons do not give it and do not give it songs.

Urgent recovery for brother Ashraf, healing does not leave a disease, O God, Amen.

You are fine and well.

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