talk about Egypt

Although I am not from Egypt , I am currently living here. It's been 3 years now and it didn't cease to surprise me until this point.
Where do you start to talk about Egypt? From the great history of a super old civilization or from the despicable state that it is in now? There's a big contrast inside of it. Old and new. Traditional and modern. Honesty and dishonesty.Like many 'unfortunate' countries in today's world you can easily see on the horizon a 5 stories fancy mall from the balcony/roof of one of the poorest familly in the city. Sunken in the dark part of the town , looking up towards the 'shiny' lights of a 'dream land' for them.
Not that there is no beauty in it. Lots of times when I feel that I'm done with it , that I hate it , I happen to fall in love again with it's peeople. They still have the famous hospitality of the middle eastern nations, where a guest is treated better than the host of the house. They are warm , helpful and thoughtful. It is not unusual for people to stop on the street to help a bus that has broken down. People who have been on the bus get down and start pushing. In my European country they would have all left on their separate ways , in a hurry to get to work because they are late. If the traffic is jammed , one or more drivers will get down and start giving people directions so they can allow the traffic to flow again ( because a lot of times they do not follow lanes or priority rules and they can get stuck in an intersection each car facing one of the cardinal points -and it looks much like a puzzle or one of those block games that you have to clear them out of the way in order to get to a point). That's what is cute about them. Buying breakfast for your colleagues is something you see often as well.It is probably  the cheapest breakfast ( like beans or cheese ) but boooy does it make you happy!
And there is that broken barrier between the people that makes you feel you can always start a conversation with random strangers in the bus station about anything. I like that. Where I come from, in most cases you are considered a freak if you just start talking with strangers- something is wrong with you.
They are proud of their nationality. The problem is that the 'educated' ones are not always that proud. They tend to listen to the other nations who only care to demoralize the Muslim countries by calling them all sorts of names like barbaric , old fashioned, unable to keep up with the modern times. And that's where we need to see the pride. The pride of being a muslim. At the time when islaam was eliberating women and teachimg people to be clean, Europeans were covered in mud and parazites  and there is no need to talk about the situation of the women because they have only recently received the rights that a man had all along.
So why don't we think about the situation of the western world? Their promiscuity, their interest based economic system, their alchool and gambling disaster. You can find all of that to some extent even here.But if we were to be proud of our islaamic inheritance , what a  huge difference that would be. The world could see the beauty of islaam in all aspects of life. But instead, we prefer the bad over the good.The ugly over the beautiful. The dirty over the clean.The slavery over freedom. Is that a wise choice? Or is that a blind choice? We know that if we were to leave something evil for the sake of Allah , then He will make a way out of it for us. While  drugs are being 'fought' against officially ,  why  are alchohol and cigarettes allowed in the country? I guess because people worship money. That's an easy answer. Money talks. Why do we need French law system when we have our Quraan and Sunnah? Wake up egyptians! You are muslims with a beautiful land ( mentioned in the Quraan I'm sure you all know that). Be proud of it and make wise choices. If nothing will change today , they might change for your children or for your grandchildren. And you know Allah will make a way out of it for you as long as you put your trust in Him and obey Him. And if not , we know very well what happens to nations that do not obey Allah. He replaces them with better people becuase He is in no need of us, while we are in desperate need of Him.
Praise be to Allah for the muslims that follow the Sunnah in Egypt and may He make their number multiply. And may He grant knowledge to all of us who want to learn, because knowledge is indeed th cure of everything. Amin
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