1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,230 Oppression is the transgression of limits and the violation of the rights of others. 2 00:00:05,790 --> 00:00:10,289 The most heinous form of it is oppressing one who has no helper but Allah. 3 00:00:10,919 --> 00:00:12,820 Umar Ibn Abd al-Aziz said: 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,719 Beware of oppressing one who has no one to defend them against you except Allah. 5 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:21,940 Indeed, oppression in this world will be darkness for those who commit it. 6 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:25,339 The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: 7 00:00:25,739 --> 00:00:27,039 Beware of oppression. 8 00:00:27,339 --> 00:00:30,440 For oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection. 9 00:00:32,060 --> 00:00:33,159 O you! 10 00:00:33,659 --> 00:00:38,159 The pleasures of the oppressors have vanished due to their oppression, while the shame remains. 11 00:00:38,659 --> 00:00:43,229 They have moved to the abode of punishment, and others have inherited their homes. 12 00:00:43,789 --> 00:00:47,789 They are left alone with the torment in the depths of those stones. 13 00:00:48,289 --> 00:00:50,289 There is no rescuer and no companion. 14 00:00:50,789 --> 00:00:53,289 No friend and no neighbor. 15 00:00:54,179 --> 00:00:57,679 The poet Hashim al-Rifa'i wrote this poem. 16 00:00:58,179 --> 00:01:00,179 From the perspective of an oppressed man. 17 00:01:00,679 --> 00:01:04,680 He sent it to his father on the night of his execution. 18 00:01:05,180 --> 00:01:10,040 My father, what can my fingers write? 19 00:01:10,540 --> 00:01:14,040 While the rope and the executioner await me. 20 00:01:14,540 --> 00:01:22,390 My father, what can my fingers write? 21 00:01:22,890 --> 00:01:29,890 While the rope and the executioner await me. 22 00:01:30,390 --> 00:01:37,390 This letter is to you from a cell. 23 00:01:37,890 --> 00:01:44,890 Cold, with walls of stone. 24 00:01:45,390 --> 00:01:52,420 Only one night remains for me to live. 25 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:59,420 And I feel that its darkness is my shroud. 26 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:06,420 It will pass, my father, I have no doubt. 27 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:13,419 And after it, my body will be carried away. 28 00:02:13,419 --> 00:02:21,969 The night around me is a deathly silence. 29 00:02:22,469 --> 00:02:28,969 And memories churn within my soul. 30 00:02:29,469 --> 00:02:35,969 My pain overwhelms me, so I seek comfort. 31 00:02:36,469 --> 00:02:42,969 In a few verses of the Qur'an. 32 00:02:43,969 --> 00:02:50,469 My soul within me is transparent. 33 00:02:50,969 --> 00:02:57,469 Humility has crept into it and shaken my being. 34 00:02:57,969 --> 00:03:01,469 I have lived believing in Allah. 35 00:03:01,969 --> 00:03:09,569 And only recently did I taste the sweetness of faith. 36 00:03:10,569 --> 00:03:20,490 The silence is broken by the clinking of chains. 37 00:03:20,990 --> 00:03:26,490 Which the fingers of the jailer have toyed with. 38 00:03:26,990 --> 00:03:33,490 From a slit in the door, he watches his prey. 39 00:03:33,990 --> 00:03:39,490 And returns in safety to his rounds. 40 00:03:40,490 --> 00:03:47,219 I do not feel any hatred toward him. 41 00:03:47,719 --> 00:03:53,219 What crime did I commit that his malice should touch me? 42 00:03:53,719 --> 00:03:59,219 The tear of the prisoner there in his shackles. 43 00:03:59,719 --> 00:04:05,219 And the blood of the martyr here will meet. 44 00:04:06,219 --> 00:04:11,719 And the succession of drops will descend after it. 45 00:04:12,219 --> 00:04:18,970 A torrent followed by the outpouring of a flood. 46 00:04:19,470 --> 00:04:28,779 My father, if the morning rises upon the world. 47 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:35,779 And the light of the sun illuminates every place. 48 00:04:35,779 --> 00:04:42,279 And the birds welcome the morning among the branches. 49 00:04:42,779 --> 00:04:48,279 A new day, bright with colors. 50 00:04:48,779 --> 00:04:55,279 And you hear the sounds of optimism flowing. 51 00:04:55,779 --> 00:05:01,279 From the mouth of the milk seller. 52 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:07,779 And a knock comes, as is customary at our door. 53 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:13,779 It will be the jailer knocking at the prison door. 54 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:22,670 And after a moment, I will be swaying. 55 00:05:23,170 --> 00:05:28,670 In the rope, suspended from the gallows. 56 00:05:29,730 --> 00:05:35,230 I do not want you to live broken. 57 00:05:35,730 --> 00:05:41,230 In the crowd of pains and sorrows. 58 00:05:41,730 --> 00:05:48,230 For your son, shackled in his chains. 59 00:05:48,730 --> 00:05:54,230 Has been led toward death, though innocent. 60 00:05:54,230 --> 00:06:00,730 So remember the stories of the morning days. 61 00:06:01,230 --> 00:06:06,730 That you told me about the love of the homeland. 62 00:06:07,230 --> 00:06:21,250 And if you hear my mother’s wailing in the darkness. 63 00:06:21,250 --> 00:06:27,750 Weeping for a youth lost in its prime. 64 00:06:28,250 --> 00:06:33,750 And she hides the heartaches in her depths. 65 00:06:34,250 --> 00:06:40,750 Pain she conceals from the neighbors. 66 00:06:41,250 --> 00:06:46,750 Then ask her to forgive me, for I. 67 00:06:46,750 --> 00:06:53,250 Seek nothing from her but forgiveness. 68 00:06:53,750 --> 00:06:59,250 The ringing of her voice still echoes in my ears. 69 00:06:59,750 --> 00:07:05,250 And her words spoken with mercy and tenderness. 70 00:07:05,750 --> 00:07:13,250 "My son, I have become frail." 71 00:07:13,250 --> 00:07:19,750 "I have no strength left for sorrows." 72 00:07:20,250 --> 00:07:25,750 "So gladden my heart by searching for." 73 00:07:26,250 --> 00:07:31,750 "A righteous wife, and leave your disobedience." 74 00:07:32,250 --> 00:07:38,100 She had a cherished wish. 75 00:07:39,100 --> 00:07:45,600 Oh, how beautiful her hopes and aspirations were. 76 00:07:46,100 --> 00:07:51,600 And now I do not know in what state. 77 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:57,600 You will spend the night, or in what heart. 78 00:07:58,100 --> 00:08:04,600 This is what I have written to you, my father. 79 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:10,100 Some of what is running through a suffering mind. 80 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:17,100 Until we meet under the shade of a justice. 81 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:23,100 Where judgments and the scales are sacred. 82 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:28,420 Until we meet under the shade of a justice.