Autumn of Seville Taifas

Author's name: Walid Saif

Tyrants and invaders are two sides of the same coin; each calls for the other and is the reason for its existence. Whoever seeks to protect himself and his country from an invading enemy will find no stronger fortress after God than his people and his family, for they are the beginning and the end. Wars come and go, and kingdoms vanish, but the power of the hearts is eternal; no one can create it or remove it. It is a station that armies cannot reach, and weapons cannot violate. Let people witness what they wish. Where do empty, desolate hearts go when compared to a heart brimming with love and loyalty? Is this your security? Is this the security of the sincere, pure Murabitun, who inherited the call of the prophets and the path of the righteous forefathers? Or are the traditions of previous nations being repeated in you as they were in others? Its beginning is a call, and its end is kingdom, power, and spoils. Such is human nature; they forget the beginnings and the causes, and remember only the results and the ends. How many a noble person has been humiliated, and he was only humiliated when he did wrong, and his humiliation was the fruit of his own actions and the actions of those who followed him, so they brought the nation to the sources of humiliation and disgrace