far away

In those eras, we were free to think and say as we wanted to think and say. We were met with various types of resistance, which only increased our ambition for freedom and our deepening of it. We viewed jihad for the sake of opinion and freedom of opinion as one of the needs of life, and one of the necessities of free existence. So where are we now? We sometimes complained about the injustice of governments, their tendency toward tyranny, and their support for stagnation, but we always found the people favorable to us, granting us their victory, friendliness, compassion, and support. But now, the Sultan's violence has intensified and become so extreme that writers and preachers have been forced to think and evaluate, and to think and evaluate for a long time before they write or say, and the continuous official tyranny has found for itself supporters and assistants from the classes of the people that it had never had before. There were parties, no matter how small they were, that were of little danger. They are organized parties that support injustice and tyranny, and call for delay and backwardness, and there is nothing strange in this; Turmoil has increased in our political systems, and the country has long been governed by governments that did not value truth, justice, or the law, and did not fail to seek help or supporters, using the colors of enticement and intimidation. Taha Hussien