Saudi today and the thirty -year wars
Dr. Abdullah bin Musa Al -Tayer
King Salman bin Abdulaziz – may God protect him – when he talks about the Saudi state, pronounces the tongue of the expert, qualified with historical knowledge and the public and private context of the formation of states. I do not think that anyone specialized in studying the Saudi state as he did, and it is fortunate for the researchers that he headed the King Abdulaziz House for a long time, and therefore he poured into the information sections the juice of his knowledge, especially in unification, management, and development of the modern Saudi state; The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since its announcement in 1932 AD after the thirty -year wars that started entering Riyadh in 1902.
The summons of King Salman theory in the establishment of the Saudi state, a theory based on two basic elements: the “call”, and the “political power” that sends inspiration in an era that witnesses divisions between countries and its components, and ascends in the severity of populism, from the weakening of the European Union’s unity due to the conflicting ideologies within the liberal-democratic entities, with what suggests that conflict from a dangerous fragmentation, up to serious controversy, up to the controversy, up to the controversy Polarization in America, which clearly indicates that the geopolitical map of the world that has stabilized a long period of human history is about to cross the updated crises that reshape them. Countries are not born from the womb of chaos or chance, but it is produced in the “Thought” laboratory, and I mean it by university ideologies, common identities, and collective visions, in addition to “power”, whether it is a brute military “overcoming Islamic thought”, or institutional authority. Without this combination of mating thought and strength, the states have not been born in the past, and will not be formed in the future.
Thought is the spark that delivers fire in the collective goal, and it generates a coherent global vision, led by a firm power, and the diaspora of societies collects from tribes and cities, and forms a viable entity. Without this, these societies remain rival, and competing with tribal loyalties and narrow local identities that cannot withstand or build as well as achieve security and stability.
King Abdulaziz launched in the thirty -year war and in his mind and conviction, a unified Arab Islamic idea, and in his right Hossam the power that removed those who stood in the face of his “unitary vision”, and the frequencies were tamed, and because he used by force the assumption of the universal vision, he never celebrated a military victory, but rather began to achieve the construction of the components of the civil state from the establishment of the elected municipal councils from the sons of Al -Hawad Shura, summoning dignitaries and consulting them in the responsibility of managing their areas, personally interested in the “prince installation” system, and justice appointing the judge.
The familiarity of the history of the United States of America finds that the Americans have set a constitution linking 13 states based on a deliberate narrative promising with life, freedom, pursuit and well -being, and thus mobilized the thought against British tyranny, so the vision that united the military power that defeated colonialism. Not only that, but it is the idea of a promise to a better life and freedom and economic prosperity that suggested the cuff of the units led by US President Abraham Lincoln to get America out of its civil war, and reaches what it is today. Likewise, the unification of Germany in 1871 AD, led by Bismarck, was not only linked to “blood and iron”; Rather, it was based on the organic, cultural, and spiritual ties of the German people represented in the common language, folklore, history, and a “unique” collective spirit, which are intellectual, cultural and linguistic ties that go beyond the regional competitions that divided Germany. It is the same premise that King Abdulaziz united the Arab Mazeen; We are tribes, cities, and sprawling regions, each component is holed up behind his tribal and interest -defense lines, fooling unified unified elements of one religion, common language, similar customs and traditions, and common destiny. With these unitary elements, in addition to the military force, the fragmented barriers receded in favor of the universal state.
Ideas are undoubtedly inspiring, but the power alone is the one that achieves visions and ideas. The English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, the owner of the theory of modern social contract, argued that individuals without organization will live in a continuous state of war and insecurity, and he saw that the social contract is necessary to create a strong central authority to maintain order and prevent chaos. Only the owner of sovereignty who has absolute power is capable of imposing order, and the imposition of submission to the sword. The French Revolution embodies this example, as the noble proverb that it called for freedom, equality, and brotherhood, was not fulfilled by its declaration and awareness of its importance in the building of man and the place, but the sword, and the armies of Napoleon were the ones that set the modern French state, suppressed the uprisings, and exported the republic out of its geographical borders.
The founder, may God have mercy on him, believed in an idea capable of uniting the rival states of the Arabian Peninsula, and possessing the skill of leadership, and means of military power to enable his unitary vision, and he fought for it for three decades, to celebrate the Saudi National Day 95 during the reign of King Salman and his Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, may God support them, and we are a strong Saudi nation, at the height of its glory and the climax of its ambition.
