When will the message of blood and gunpowder be fulfilled? Part One of Two

 Mujahid al-Suraymi — Sana’a

Behind the smoke of empty clamor and the vapors of words released into the media sphere by unsteady pens, tongues full of complexes, and ideas that signal intellectual desertification and spiritual drought in their authors, a revolutionary impulse is emerging: a necessity to dispel all those veiling phenomena that obscure penetrating vision, comprehensive creative thought, and positively effective action across fields of endeavor — especially now, as we have just emerged from a round of confrontation with the illegitimate Zionist entity and “America the great devil” and the entire edifice of evil and hegemonic arrogance with its principals, agents, and instruments in West and East. Alongside a cadre of the free, we were aboard the ship of the deluge, leading the battle of the promised conquest and the sacred jihad, and together we came ashore on an island surrounded by threats on every side — which convinces us that this is merely a respite to catch our breath and renew our energies to resume the path of struggle until we reach the shore of victory and liberation.

We, as a resistance axis from Sana’a to Baghdad, from Gaza to Tehran, are obliged to exert great and continuous effort to build powerful and capable intellectual, literary, media, and social institutions that stand on par with the armed forces and security and intelligence agencies. True principles, higher values, and religious, human, and national constants and axioms are not rooted and sustained by blood and gunpowder alone; the pen must accompany every drop of blood and sweat to translate and preserve their effects from erasure or oblivion. Blood without genuine bearers vanishes and evaporates; thus sacrifice becomes futile, and any remaining remembrance of its perpetrators is but a faint flash unable to replicate the spirit of the martyred heroes in the consciousness of the present generation, let alone future ones. And because the launched missile and the drone that traverse the heavens pierce through all obstacles together to reach their targets, there is an urgent need to produce equivalents in the arena of thought and the field of the word. The purpose of weaponry is not complete until it is transformed from a purely material instrument into a means for producing the most important weapon: the moral or ideological weapon — which insists that true victory occurs only when ultra-sonic pens are manufactured and tongues are fashioned with logic that transcends continents, sects, creeds, and geography. Thus victory is consummated and everything becomes light upon light.

Indeed, not every actor in the axis of resistance is at the same level. Some have advanced in acquiring an arsenal of the “moral weapon,” such as the Islamic Republic and Hezbollah; others lag far behind, particularly we in the Ansar of Yemen, who mistakenly assume that seasonal campaigns on social networks can substitute for literature, fiction, theater, and cinema, and that multiplying television channels, radio stations, and newspapers — all operating at the same rank and converging in form and content while presenting specific programs to certain audiences — is the sole path to preserving religion, identity, and revolutionary-jihadi achievements. All this stems from the overwhelming dominance of a rigid jurisprudential outlook that has yet to awaken to reality and to enter the age with its tools; hence it has deprived reality of the Quranic outlook that came in its name, and once it gained ascendancy, it suppressed and turned against it in every sense of the word.