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Familiarization Of Slavery
*Israa Sayed , Fourth Year Political Science Student
E V E N T P H O T O G R A P H E R A N D V I D E O G R A P H E R
“The Qur’an is almost all of Moses!” When we to conquest the people to his slavery, but on
think over the Qur’anic stories, we will find that the other hand, he had his own methods
the story of the Prophet Moses with the “sons of than violence and intimidation, basically a
Israel” has been repeated in it as no other story psychological methods, in which he ensured
did, because they were, in my opinion, more that slavery was rooted in the hearts of his
than just a nation or a human community that people, the slavery that does not perish by
Qur’an narrates the details of its story the annihilation of the tyrant and does not
throughout history, but they could be cease to obtain freedom, and that by
considered as representing a special entity, in consolidating his authority over them with
which the psychological complications are words, it may seem simple, but its effect was
manifested in its deepest forms, an entity in very deep on them, such as saying: "O
which humiliation was combined with pride, people, do I not have the ownership of Egypt"
vulnerability with empowerment, cowardice and and ”O eminent ones I have not known you
negligence with courage and initiative, all at to have a god other than me"
different times in different stages of their
history in which the Qur'an shows us how deep These words represent the highest levels of
is The human soul, the difficulty of analyzing it control over them on the one hand, and the
and standing in one condition For a group of necessity of their submission to it on the
people for a long time, and one of those other hand, because he is not just an
complications that arouses exclamation for that ordinary ruler, but rather a king and a god,
nation is their familiarization of their slavery and the aura that surrounded his rule made
and their longing for itز it impossible to rebel against him, even just
thinking, and in doing so, he completely
the question that arises becomes: "How is it succeeded in assassinating them
possible for a person to love slavery and to psychologically, and planting slavery in their
familiarize it , and even to yearn for, if it is given minds and souls.
an opportunity to be free from it?" But I
discovered that the formulation of the question That slavery that was stronger than the
is not correct, there is no place for the mind Snake miracle, and the deeper cleavage of
here, and the question should not start with the sea. And by this we can say that the
"how is it possible", because when we talk about psychological impact of tyranny on peoples
"the familiarization of slavery" we are referring goes beyond the person of the tyrant
to a deep corner of the feelings of the human himself, to become a firm belief held by
soul that the mind has no control over, The mind individuals that controls their behavior, and
had been absent in advance, or in other words, it compels them to long for the condition of
was manipulated, so it is true that Pharaoh - slavery itself, regardless of who will be
with all his crimes related to the oppressed of subjected to it this time, then there is no
the people of Egypt - was using all the means of difference between an Egyptian pharaoh or a
intimidation calf made by the Samaritan!.
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