Nabil Al-Sufi writes: The professor and the general... Double loss
English - Tuesday 18 July 2023 الساعة 04:20 pm
NewsYemen, Writen/ Nabil Al-Sufi:
Ali Hassan Al-Shater and Faisal Al-Sufi, congratulations for both of you moving to the expanse of God, to a place where people do not need anyone, and none of them can be neither unjust nor oppressed..
There is a lot of difference between you, but from my little interaction with each of you, I saw determination and persistence in common
Mr. Ali did not leave his daily personal program despite all the circumstances.
My last meeting with him was on the eve of the second of December.. when we arranged the last communication for the leader, and it was the only time we sat together alone, he said that it is a war of courage and duty and its outcome does not matter.
He was calm and alone in his place, which had always brought together all the intellectuals of Yemen, even during his last years during the war. Those of them who remained in Sana'a you would find in the "Professor's" diwan.
Then I did not hear his voice after that until a week before his death. I wish I had a longer time talking, but fate had another decision.
His departure from Sana’a was a great gain, in our perception, this is how we thought him, and when I heard his feeble voice, I did not know what to say. I was personally betting on his departure to reunite the prestige of the republican memory only as a memory that we contribute to transmitting to future generations, and when I told him he laughed quietly as if he was saying: Even in such circumstances you expect me to do something like this.
Your departure broke my heart, Professor.. Our country, present and past, leaks from us. What a failure our generation has had in preserving even the past..!
The republic is in its greatest qualities, it opens the way for perseverance and competence, in the face of all the hierarchies that man makes to protect the achievements of families and collectives within him.. “Al-Shater” was one of the manifestations of this republic, just like the leader himself, the son of an ordinary family who relied on himself from nothing until he became The first man in his field.
The disciplined soldier who was the truest and purest link between the supreme authority and the figures of the modernist national action, both left and right.
We thought his success was related to the capabilities available to him in moral guidance, then events revealed that the management of military media institutions is not just capabilities. And that "Ali Hassan Al-Shater" is a law for this success with human spaces for error and right, agreement and disagreement.
While I did not recover from the shock of Al-Shater's departure, we were saddened by the death of the "General".
Our deceased, who passed away in the same week, "Faisal Al-Sufi".
This is how we used to call Faisal in our first media group that joined the "Bir Ahmed" camp in Aden with the formation of the First Brigade, Republic Guards, after the agreement between Major General Aidarous Al-Zubaidi and Brigadier General Tariq Saleh, under the auspices of the brothers in the coalition.
We were not aware of the nature of the task that we, as journalists, could perform within a military group that would be reconstituted from scratch after the completion of the episodes of the fall of the republican state and citizenship.
So Brigadier General Tariq decided to introduce us to a military course within the brigade, and "Faisal" was the oldest and most enthusiastic, disciplined and interactive.
And we redefined ourselves in the field of soldiery, and here we bid farewell to the second of us after the first: Ahmed Al-Ramy.
We thought the general's description was a joke exchanged by Al-Soufi and his comrades in the service ward, but our move to the West Coast revealed to us what we had not known before about the real "fighter" Faisal Al-Sufi.
We lived through circumstances and we are still living through some of them, extremely cruel, crowded with claims by some of us that we are statesmen and that we are the only ones, and claims that were restrictions that further confuse us in a reality with which allegations are of no use at all..
I have not seen a committed realist like Professor Faisal, who looked around him as if he were a young man in the prime of his life, rebuilding his awareness and knowledge of time and place. A man of his age would surrender to the obligations of time, reduce his movement, increase his conditions, and complain a lot, but this “old man” who used to call us all “my son” was none of that. He lived in the balcony of an abandoned house on the fronts of al-Duraihimi, and he used to talk about his place as if it were the whole house.
He Lectures.. writes.. researches.. blogs.
He managed the Media Center of the National Resistance for months, and returned to its daily program after changing it, as if nothing had happened.
By God, Faisal, we have no right to blame your departure.. God has freed you from the disease that ravaged your liver, but you will leave a void that can only be filled by loss and pain.
