Blessed be a king

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President Mubarak is a revealing example of good luck and tragic ending. Completely for forty years, and he is at the peak of glory, moving from one peak to another, without interruption for even a single moment, then he sits on the throne of the Pharaohs for close to a third of a century, reassured and stable. The world shakes around him, and he is steadfast, firm, and powerful. From April 1972, where he sat at the top of the Egyptian Air Force in difficult days, to April 1975 as Vice President of the Republic, representing and elevating the officers of the October War generation to the pinnacle of power, then in October 1981, President of the Republic for a period of thirty years that ended on February 11, 2011. And had it not been for the emergence of the idea of succession, which disturbed the foundations of the state itself before it disturbed the people, he would have remained in a stable position until the date of his death on February 25, 2020, at the age of adulthood. He was 91 years old, while President Abdel Nasser died at the age of 52, and President Sadat died at the age of 62.

For forty full years from 1972 to 2011, and Mubarak moved from one summit to another without interruption for a single day, and it is a privilege that good luck brought to him alone, as an exception to all the officers, whether they were from the generation of July 23, 1952, or from the generation of October 6, 1973. Rather, it is a privilege that has been unique to him from all those who have worked in the industry of governance and politics in Egypt since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Forty years in high positions - the Air Force, the Vice President, the President - is sufficient and completely sufficient to give its owner the reassuring feeling of automatic, spontaneous perpetuity at the top of power without his effort, effort, personal distinction, or extraordinary superiority that makes him different and then deserving of others. Rather, it is the will of the divine decrees that arrange the paths of our lives for us, whether we realize it or the lights of our insight are dimmed and we are unable to see or feel it.

Anyone who holds any high position in Egypt, even in a police station, in a health unit, in a school, in a real estate office, a tax office, or any modest government bureaucratic unit, knows how much value, prestige, and appreciation the position brings to its holder, which he does not receive before he is in the position or after he no longer holds the position. Our common traditions and culture - we Egyptians - tend us to exalt the chair and then to exalt the status of the person sitting on it, regardless of our true evaluation of it. It is important because the chair itself is important. The chair to us is mysterious and frightening. We cannot be safe from it or be reassured except by showing it compliance and submission, and offering it flattery and flattery. For more than two thousand five hundred years, the chair has been traded by strangers, passed from stranger to stranger. When it was passed from strangers to the children of peasants, the names changed but the contents remained.

We will continue tomorrow, God willing.

Quoted from “Al-Masry Al-Youm”