How many people these days memorize beautiful things…!

Yemen

Yamanat

Ghassan Amin

I was surprised by a call from someone asking to meet me, and a sheikh of about 84 years old from Al-Dhalea governorate came to me. He came from there specifically to visit the father’s grave, recite Al-Fatihah and offer condolences. How hurt he was when he learned that the father was buried in his hometown of Al-Abous. He decided to move there immediately without my insistence and that of his grandson that the road was long for him. He was convinced after an hour of discussion, then he told me his story with the father, may God have mercy on him. On that.

He said he was arrested in the 1980s and held for 9 months on charges of spying with the South.

He said: “I was certain that I was going to die in detention because my family did not know about my arrest, and I had said goodbye to them that I was going to move to Saudi Arabia through the north, in addition to the torture during the investigations, until your father, who was in my cell and knew my story, was arrested and released two months later. I was surprised, a few days after his release, that he came back to visit me, which they stopped him from doing, so he sent the guard with clothes for me, food and lunch.

After that, he continued for months to review, mediate, and contact everyone he knew until they summoned me to the agency agent’s office. I entered and found your father present. He had obtained my release order and a commercial guarantee from his company and he took me to his house. I wanted to return to Al-Dhale’, but he insisted that I stay with him for a few days to rest.

On the day of my trip, I was surprised by your father who gave me a travel bag containing clothes for me and gifts for my children and my wife so that I would not enter my children’s house empty-handed. He gave me some money in a sealed envelope and took me to the sorter.

While we were on the way, I remembered the commercial guarantee and said to him, “My brother Amin, how can I travel when the guarantee is your right? They will arrest you.” He smiled and said to me, “It doesn’t matter if things are resolved. You travel and I will take action.”

I traveled, but the attitude and memory of your father did not escape me, and I kept telling it to my children and grandchildren so that they would remember the kindness of your father if I did not want to, but death preceded me and I burst into intense tears, and how those tears filled me.

They were tears of loyalty to the beautiful (and how many people today preserve the beautiful) for the love of God.

I insisted that he be my guest, but due to special circumstances, he insisted on returning to his village and gave me a paper containing the names of his children and his brothers’ children. He said: “These are your men, my son, in Aden. » He left, leaving me stunned. I ask God to give you good health and a long life, Uncle Saleh.

I am amazed that a person of this age would endure the hardships of the road and the dangers for him in returning from a long journey to recite Fatihah to someone in response to a favor that lasted more than 40 years and has not been forgotten or gone mad. I am amazed that someone would follow and review for months and including a person he only knew in prison, and I remembered the verses I had read.

Beauty stays forever

Loyalty to loyal people over the years

Purity and goodness are no one’s property

Other than those who are pure and good

May God have pity on the father, may the righteous have pity on him, forgive him and place him in his vast gardens.

Yemen