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| Late Muhammad Mursi |
It leaves one to wonder how important a figure the man was. Muhammad Mursi became the first democratically elected president of Egypt on 30th June 2012 after secularist dictator Hosni Mubarak was ousted by popular protest on 11th February 2011.
The First Betrayal
It wasn’t an easy 12 months for Mursi’s Islam inclined government as all anti-Islam forces domestic and foreign, Arab and non-Arab came for him.
He was overthrown in a coup by then defense minister, al Sisi, as Egyptian Muslims sat down at home watching TV. It was almost as if they felt they were doing Mursi a favour by voting for him and the Islamic party.
That was the first betrayal, leaving Mursi to face the insults and defamations of the rebels alone.
The Muslims of Turkey learnt from this. When atheists and secularists attempted a coup on 15th July 2016, Turks poured onto the streets to defend their leaders and government.
It wasn’t until the coup was announced that the Muslims of Egypt knew they had to come out to defend their government; it was too late.
All kinds of ludicrous and spurious allegations were leveled against Mursi just to keep him chained. All these, under the watch of the so-called OIC (Organization of Islamic Co-orperation).
Only the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey stood solidly behind Mursi’s government; Iran spoke only little largely due to their falling out with Mursi over Bashar al Asad’s government in Syria.
The Second Betrayal
After the first two years of Mursi’s detention, the Muslim world went silent. Pro-Mursi rallies across the globe stopped, pro-Mursi warriors on social media went dormant, Masajid across the Muslim world that were constantly speaking against the atrocities in Egypt moved on to ‘other issues’, and even the Muslims who used to wake up for tahajjud just to pray for Mursi and the Muslims of Egypt went back to their normal sleeping routines.
Not even anniversaries of the overthrow were held.
Personally, I don’t remember making du’a for Mursi even once in the last Ramadan.
It is possible the Sisi regime saw this deafening silence as a green light to eliminate the head of the Egyptian Islamic revolution, Muhammad Mursi.
One has to have ambivalent feelings towards the events that have followed after the death of Muhammad Mursi was announced on 17th June 2019.
All of a sudden, social media went on fire . The warriors were resurrected; showing their love and scorn for Mursi and Sisi respectively but, to what net gain?
Global pressure compels even the worst tyrant to acquiesce and listen. It turned out that the Muslim’s 1.8 billion population was of no use to Mursi.
We failed Muhammad Mursi, we can only pray for Allah’s forgiveness for indeed cowardice and laziness are very despicable qualities.
We should not forget that there are several members of the government of Muhammad Mursi who are still in chains under the Sisi regime, if we failed Mursi we should not fail the others too.
Prominent members of the Islamic government still in prison are:
- Mohammed Badie (Supreme guide of The Muslim Brotherhood)
- Mohamed Beltagy (Secretary of the Freedom And Justice Party)
- Mohammed Khairat Saad el-Shater (Deputy Supreme guide of The Muslim Brotherhood)
- Mohamed Saad Tawfik El-Katani (Speaker of the People’s Assembly)
- Essam Mohamed Hussein el-Erian (Vice chairman of Freedom and Justice Party)
To mention just a few.
May Allah grant ease to his loyal servants, Ameen.
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