Adel Al Ashram bin Ammar *
Every nation has the elements of survival, if lost, the destiny without a doubt would be ramshackle. The fall of nations is not as the fall of regimes or countries or civilizations that can be overcome, but the fall of nations leads to its end, and the treatment is useless with it . Since approximately two thousand and five hundred , the nucleus of Arab formation began to take its shape in its progressive development , and although the name has emerged as an idiomatic pronunciation which has nothing to do with the name of the race itself , but this term took its name as a reference to ethnic origin. Thus Arabs emerged as a nation before Islam nearly a thousand years that they were like many other nations living stages of social formations in the same race, more than the implications of the national outlook in the same thought.
But the entry of cohesion element remained vacillating in spite of the fact that the morality of ethics reached a supremacy over other nations, the basis of the oscillation was internal rivalry that generates the thought of egoism, which didn’t allow to translate the positive qualities to take its leading superiority on all other nations. But Islam came and ended this oscillation in a solid ideological framework, to move from the special nation to the general nation that allowed to build a broader and more inclusive nation, based on the religion element, not on the race element.
Although the substance of this basis was the Arabs themselves, who were the nucleus of composition of the Islamic nation, and the substance of Islam, but this has been in the process of the first creation of the composition, which has not translated after the Rashidi -period with advantages of solid leadership that keeps the secret of its survival of the extent of superiority, even though there were qualitative shifts of the geography and social expansion beyond the country’s first cradle, carried out by Islamic caliphates , but the decline was an accompanying feature of the scene at each stage. In all of these eras, the Genesis of Arabs was accompanied by the case of negligence in the search of reasons of weakness and decline, Arabs attributed their weakness to external reasons, in essence of its interpretation is the right of other nations in the competition, strength and superiority. The imbalance in the Arabs was that they don’t accept the real leadership of the same race, for accumulated psychological reasons fueled by ethnic interactions with the tendency of leadership, with social affiliations of hybridization tendency.
All of this allowed to delay the Arabs at every stage and era from other nations, but allowed the existence of a distance of approach between the Arabs and other nations moving towards the high leadership in human procession, and even allowed it up in the last of this era in which we live today to the stage of pre- final fall. Other nations found Arab climate is fragile and messy and retrogressive, so it has sought to the fragmentation of it through weakening and marginalization of it, and make it a scattered followers , and the drawing the political structure in a way that it does not allow the presence of strong leaders stem from the same race. For this reason, it is not strange to find a weakness and deterioration in the Arab situation we live in succession. Historical classes and stages of rule grew up in some of our areas, poor, lacks the Charisma of the required and desired leadership and the manner of a leader and speech of the official doesn’t upgrade to the reality of his stage . These are disastrous reasons surrounding the nation, and serious signals in its erosion and extinction.
The survival of the Arabs as a divided and fragmented nation, that do not have a presence in the real sense of nation, serves its competitors. Arabs today do not have the ability in the face of major and regional nations and countries that they do not have the survival elements in front of it , Arabs ‘s will is subject to the factors of weakness that don’t allow them to take their proper place . The most prominent element of survival and cohesion of nations is the presence of the nucleus of cohesive polarization in the origin of the composition of the nation, and it was based on it through the factors of ethnicity, language, geography and religious belief , and the ideological trend , mixed between history and common destiny, is the most important tools for building the basis in the phase of formative nations . But we, Arab miss it .Thus we find Nations enjoy with elements and foundations which are needed for the survival of nations. When the nation lose the formative nucleus, it will inevitably fall. Regimes succeed each other, but the nation, no one comes to succeed it . Arabs may fall as a national concept within what we see of clear data for us as human beings, because they are today the weakest nation and ethnic faction exists on the face of the earth, but Arabs will not fall as a substance for Islam as a universal cosmic religion, because this is a special affair of something that we have nothing to do with it as human beings, God Almighty to ensure the preservation of it. And God is the best to take care of it.
Arab Studies Unit
Rawbet Center for Research and Strategic Studies