In recent years, the city of Tripoli, Lebanon has witnessed remarkable transformations in media discourse and political and economic decisions concerning it. After years of deliberate marginalization and the unjust labeling of the city as “Lebanon’s Kandahar” and a stronghold of extremism and terrorism, the image has suddenly shifted to that of “the bride of the revolution” and a city of coexistence and peace.

The story of the Firawn (Pharaoh) was not an isolated historical event that ended with a tyrant drowning in the sea. Instead, Allah (swt) made it a recurring sign, its images repeated in human life whenever the meaning of truth weakens, people remain silent in the face of injustice, and nations accept submission to tyrants and the arrogant.

The history of Muslims is distinguished by the great and honorable stances taken by the men of the Ummah. These stances, adopted in defense of the Ummah and the Islamic belief, made them shining stars in their Ummah’s history and paragons of pride and honor. In every crisis that befell the Ummah throughout its various eras, the Ummah was distinguished by the readiness of a select group of its sons…

This verse is from Surah At-Tawbah, also known as Surah Bara’ah (Disavowal), because it begins by declaring Allah’s and His Messenger’s (saw) disavowal of the polytheists...