اَللُّبْنَانِيُّون تُفَرِّقُهُم اَلسِّيَاسَة وَتَجْمَعُهُم فَيْرُوز، فَحِينَمَا تُغَنِّي يَتَوَحَّدُ لُبْنَان، فَيُعَانِقُ ٱلسَّهْل ٱلْجَبَل، وَيُخَاصِرُ ٱلْجَنُوب اَلشَّمَال، فَلا صَوْت فِي بَلَد ٱلْأَرْز وَٱلسِّنْدِيَان يَعْلُو عَلَى صَوْت فَيْرُوز، حَتَّى ٱلْخِلاف ٱللُّبْنَانِيّ اَلَّذِي يَمْتَدّ إِلَى كُلّ ٱلْجِهَات يَتَوَحَّد حِينَمَا تَتَّجِه بَوْصَلَةُ ٱلنِّقَاش صَوْبَ فَيْرُوز، فَفَيْرُوز مِفْتَاح ٱلْفَرَح، تُغَنِّي فَتَرْحَلُ قُطْعَان ٱلْهُمُوم بَعِيدًا، وَتُحَلِّق أَسْرَاب ٱلْحَمَام، وَإِذَا أَرَدتَ إِطْفَاء حَرَائِق ٱلنِّقَاش فِي لُبْنَان فَأَدِر مُؤَشِّر ٱلرَّادِيُو عَلَى صَوْت فَيْرُوز، فَلَيْسَ ثَمَّةَ لُبْنَانِيّ يَتَمَرَّد عَلَى ٱلْإِنْصَات لِصَوْتِهَا، فَٱلْكُلّ يَرْفَعُون لَهَا تَاجَ «ٱلسَّلْطَنَة»، وَإِمَارَةِ ٱلْفَنّ، وَٱعْتَبَرَهَا نِزَار ٱلْقَبَّانِيّ «رِسَالَةَ حُبٍّ مِن كَوْكَبٍ آخَر»، وَقَالَ عَنهَا مَحْمُود دَرْوِيش إِنَّهَا اَلَّتِي «تَجْعَلُ ٱلصَّحْرَاء أَصْغَر وَٱلْقَمَر أَكْبَر»، وَقَالَ عَن صَوْتِهَا أُنْسِيّ اَلْحَاجّ إِنَّهُ «يُشْبِه رَنَّةَ ٱلثَّلْج فِي ٱلْكَأْس»، وَنَعَتَهَا سَعِيد عَقْل بِأَنَّهَا «سَفِيرَتُنَا إِلَى ٱلنُّجُوم».
The Lebanese - politics divides them but Fairouz brings them together. For when she sings Lebanon unites:- The [Beqaa] valley [lit. plain] embraces the mountain and the south puts its arm around the waist of the north. No voice in the country of the cedar and oak rings out louder than the voice of Fairouz. Even the Lebanese differences which extend to all areas/parts become one when the compass of the discussion/debate points towards Fairouz. For Fairouz is the key to joy. [When] she sings the herds of worries move far away [and] the flocks of doves circle in the air. And if you want to put out the fires of dispute in Lebanon then turn the needle/pointer of the radio onto the voice of Fairouz. For there is not one Lebanese person who would rebel against listening to her voice. All raise aloft onto her the crown of the sultanate and emirate of art. Nizar Qabbani [Syrian poet d.1998] considered her a message of love from another planet Mahmoud Darwish [Palestinian poet d. 2008] said about her that she is who makes the desert smaller and the moon larger Ounsi el-Hajj [Lebanese poet b. 1937] said about her voice that it is like the clinking of ice in a glass and Saeed Aql [Lebanese poet b. 1912] described her as being our ambassador to the stars.
اِنْضَمَّ رَئِيس ٱلْوُزَرَاء ٱلْفِلَسْطِينِيّ اَلدُّكْتُور سَلام فَيَّاض أَمْس إِلَى قَاطِفِي اَلزَّيْتُون فِي حُقُولِهِم اَلَّتِي تَتَعَرَّض إِلَى هَجَمَاتٍ يَوْمِيَّة مِن جَانِب ٱلْمُسْتَوْطِنِين. وَوَجَّهَ مِن عَلَى شَجَرَةِ زَيْتُونٍ فِي قَرْيَةِ عِرَاق بُورِين قُرْبَ نَابُلُس شِمَال ٱلضِّفَّة ٱلْغَرْبِيَّة رِسَالَةً إِلَى ٱلْمُسْتَوْطِنِين، قَائِلًا: «رِسَالَتُنَا لَهُم إِنَّنَا عَلَى أَرْضِنَا بَاقُون، إِنَّنَا بَاقُون كَمَا ٱلزَّيْتُون». وَقَرْيَةُ عِرَاق بُورِين وَاحِدَةٌ مِن ٱلْقُرَى ٱلْفِلَسْطِينِيَّة اَلَّتِي تَتَعَرَّضُ لِهَجَمَاتٍ يَوْمِيَّة مِن ٱلْمُسْتَوْطِنِين اَلَّذِينَ يَقْتَلِعُون أَشْجَار ٱلزَّيْتُون أَوْ يَقُصُّونَهَا أَوْ يُضْرِمُون ٱلنَّار فِيهَا أَوْ يَعْتَدُون عَلَى ٱلْمُزَارِعِين. وَكَانَتْ تَعَرَّضَتْ أَمْس إِلَى هُجُومٍ مِن ٱلْمُسْتَوْطِنِين اَلَّذِينَ أَلْقَوا ٱلْحِجَارَةَ عَلَى قَاطِفِي اَلزَّيْتُون وَطَرَدُوهُم مِن أَرْضِهِم، إِلا أَنَّ ٱلْفَلَّاحِين تَصَدَّوا لَهُم، فَدَارَتْ بَيْنَ ٱلْجَانِبَيْن اِشْتِبَاكَاتٌ بِٱلْحِجَارَة.
The Palestinian Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad yesterday joined with olive pickers in their fields which are subjected to daily attacks on the part of settlers. And he sent from up an olive tree in the village of Iraq Burin near Nablus in the north of the West Bank a message to the settlers saying: Our message to them is that we will remain on our land - we will remain [on our land] just like the olive tree. The village of Iraq Burin is one of the Palestinian villages which are subjected to daily attacks by the settlers who uproot olive trees or cut them down or set fire to them or attack the farmers. [The village] was subjected yesterday to an attack by settlers who threw stones at the olive pickers and drove them from their land. However the farmers opposed them and there took place between the two sides clashes with stones.
دَبَّ ٱلتَّعَب فِي جَسَدِهِ، وَبَدَأَ يُعَانِي مِن ٱلْحُمَّى، وَٱلصُّدَاع، وَمِن آلامٍ فِي ٱلْمَفَاصِل، وَمِن ٱلنُّعَاس وَٱلْخُمُول. ظَنَّ أَنَّ مُعَانَاتَه سَبَبُهَا ٱلرَّشْح أَوْ دَاء ٱلْاِنْفلُوَنْزَا، وَهِيَ حَتْمًا سَتَرْحَل فِي غُضُون أَيَّامٍ قَلِيلَة بِعِلَاجٍ أَوْ مِن دُون عِلَاج. وَلَمْ تَمْضِ سَاعَاتٌ قَلِيلَة حَتَّى تَدَهْوَرَتْ حَالَتُهُ ٱلْعَامَّة، فَصَارَ يَشْكُو مِن عَوَارِض شَتَّى: غَثَيَان، تَقَيُّؤ، وَٱضْطِرَابَاتٍ سُلُوكِيَّة وَشَخْصِيَّة، وَٱخْتِلاجَاتٍ، وَرَجَفَان، وَٱخْتِلاطَاتٍ ذِهْنِيَّة، وَهَلْوَسَة، وَٱزْدِوَاج ٱلرُّؤْيَة، وَعَدَم ٱلْقُدْرَة عَلَى ٱلتَّحَكُّم فِي ٱلْحَرَكَات ٱلْإِرَادِيَّة، وَضَعْف ٱلْإِحْسَاس فِي بَعْض مَنَاطِق ٱلْجِسْم، وَعَدَم ٱلْقُدْرَة عَلَى ٱلنُّطْق، وَتَدَهْوُر ٱلْوَعْي، أَمَامَ هٰذِهِ ٱلصُّورَة، نُقِلَ ٱلْمُصَاب عَلَى عَجَل إِلَى أَقْرَب مُسْتَشْفَى، وَبَعْدَ إِجْرَاء ٱلْفُحُوص ٱلضَّرُورِيَّةِ لَه، خُصُوصًا اَلشُّعَاعِيَّة وَٱلْمَخْبَرِيَّة، اِتَّضَحَ أَنَّهُ يُعَانِي مِن اِلْتِهَابٍ فِي ٱلدِّمَاغ.
Tiredness spread through his body and he began to suffer from fever and headache and from pain in the joints and from drowsiness and lethargy. He thought that the cause of his suffering was a cold or influenza and it would undoubtedly go within a few days with treatment or without treatment. But there hadnt passed [just] a few hours when his general condition deteriorated and he started complaining of various symptoms: Nausea vomiting behavioural and personality disturbances convulsions tremors mental confusion hallucination double vision the inability to control voluntary movement weakness of sensation in some regions of the body the inability to speak and a deterioration in alertness/consciousness. In light of this [lit. before this picture] the casualty was taken hurriedly to the nearest hospital and after carrying out the necessary examinations on him especially radiation/X-ray and laboratory [examinations] it became clear that he was suffering from an inflammation in the brain.
بَدَأتُ أَضِيقُ ذَرْعًا مِن ٱلْقَرْن ٱلْوَاحِد وَٱلْعِشْرِين وَكُلّ مَنْ فِيه، مُتَمَنِّيًا لَوْ أَنَّ رَبِّي قَد خَلَقَنِي وَأَوْجَدَنِي بِٱلْقَرْن ٱلثَّامِن عَشَر، وَهُوَ ٱلْقَرْن ٱلْمُفْعَم (بِٱلرُّومَانْسِيَّة) حَيْثُ ٱلْعَلاقَات ٱلْاِجْتِمَاعِيَّة ٱلْحَنُونَة اَلَّتِي يَتَعَاطَاهَا ٱلْعُشَّاق تَحْتَ أَضْوَاء ٱلشُّمُوع، وَحَيْثُ رَقَصَات (ٱلْفَالْس)، وَتَقْبِيل أَطْرَاف ٱلْأَصَابِع، وَقَرْع ٱلْكُؤُوس، وَٱلْمُبَارَزَة بِٱلسُّيُوف إِلَى دَرَجَةِ ٱلْمَوْت مِن أَجْل ٱلظَّفَر بِحَسْنَاء مَجْدُولَةِ ٱلشَّعْر وَنَاهِدَةِ ٱلصَّدْر وَمُوَرَّدَةِ ٱلْخَدّ، وَٱلَّتِي تَلْبَسُ فِي قَدَمِهَا ٱلْيُمْنَى فَرْدَةَ حِذَاءٍ بَيْضَاء، فِيمَا قَدَمُهَا ٱلْيُسْرَى حَافِيَة عُرْيَانَة (كَسِنْدَرِيلا) اَلَّتِي هِيَ حُبِّي اَلْأَوَّل وَٱلْأَخِير فِي ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱلْآخِرَةِ مَعًا.
I have started getting fed up with the twenty first century and all who are in it wishing if only my Lord had created me and made me exist in the eighteenth century. That was the century full of romanticism where there were compassionate social relations which lovers would practise under the light of candles. And where there were the dances of the waltz and the kissing of the tips of fingers and the touching/striking of glasses. and duelling with swords to the death for the sake of winning a beautiful girl with braided hair and full breasts and rosy cheeks and who wore on her right foot a white shoe while her left foot was bare and naked like Cinderella who is my first and last love in both this world and the hereafter.
نَسِيَ مُحَامٍ شَابّ فِي مَدِينَةِ ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّة ٱلْمِصْرِيَّة طَبِيعَةَ مِهْنَتِه، وَتَحَوَّلَ تَحْتَ غَوَايَةِ ٱلثَّرَاء ٱلسَّرِيع إِلَى مُتَّهَمٍ يُدِيرُ أَكْبَر شَبَكَةٍ لِتَرْوِيج ٱلْمُنَشِّطَات ٱلْجِنْسِيَّة اَلْمَمْنُوع تَدَاوُلُهَا فِي مِصْر. ضُبَّاط ٱلْمَبَاحِث فُوجِئُوا عِنْدَ تَوَجُّهِهِم لِتَوْقِيف ٱلْمُحَامِي ٱلشَّابّ بِأَنَّهُ يُدِير شَبَكَة كَبِيرَة، تَمْتَدّ فُرُوعُهَا إِلَى أَغْلَب ٱلْمُحَافَظَات، وَيَعْمَلُ فِيهَا أَكْثَر مِن سِتِّين مُوَزِّعًا يَنْشَطُون بِصُورَةٍ مُكَثَّفَة فِي بَيْع هٰذِهِ ٱلْمُنَشِّطَات بِأَسْعَارٍ بَاهِظَةِ ٱلثَّمَن. اَلطَّرِيف أَنَّ ثَلاثَة مِن زَبَائِن ٱلْمُحَامِي، وَهُم اَلَّذِينَ كَانُوا مَوْجُودِين مَعَهُ لَحْظَةَ تَوْقِيفِه، كَانُوا مِن ٱلْمُسِنِّين، أَحَدُهُم يَبْلُغُ ٱلثَّامِنَة وَٱلسَّبْعِين مِن ٱلْعُمْر، وَقَد رَفَضُوا جَمِيعًا وَبِشِدَّة اَلْإِدْلاء بِشَهَادَاتِهِم ضِدَّه، «مِن بَاب ٱلْاِعْتِرَاف بِٱلْجَمِيل»، وَ«اِمْتِنَانًا لِلْخِدْمَات اَلَّتِي قَدَّمَهَا لَهُم» عَلَى مَدَى ٱلْعَامَيْن ٱلسَّابِقَيْن اَللَّذَيْن اِحْتَرَفَ خِلالَهُمَا هٰذِهِ ٱلتِّجَارَة!
A young lawyer in the Egyptian city of Alexandria forgot the nature of his profession and changed under the tempation of quick wealth into an accused who runs the largest network for selling/distributing sexual stimulants which are forbidden from being circulated in Egypt. Officers of the Investigations [Directorate] were surprised on their heading to arrest the young lawyer that he was running a large network whose branches stretched to the majority of governorates and working in it were more than sixty distributors working eagerly in an intensive manner in the selling of these stimulants at exorbitant prices. The curious thing is that three of the lawyers customers and they are those who were present with him at the moment of his arrest were elderly one of them was seventy eight years of age and they all firmly refused to give evidence against him out [lit. from the door] of recognition of a favour/good turn and in gratitude for the services which he had rendered them over the two previous years during which he had practised [professionally] this trade!
مَشْهَدٌ يَتَكَرَّر فِي كُلّ شَارِعٍ وَزُقَاق، عَشَرَاتُ ٱلْأَطْفَال يَعِيشُون فِي مَنْزِلٍ ضَيِّق لا يَتَّسِع لِخَمْسَةِ أَشْخَاص وَيَفْتَقِر إِلَى ٱلْمَاء وَٱلْكَهْرَبَاء. هٰكَذَا هِيَ ٱلْحَيَاة فِي مُدُنٍ عِرَاقِيَّةٍ كَثِيرَة. عَلِيّ، فِي ٱلسَّادِسَة مِنِ ٱلْعُمْر، وَاحِدٌ مِن أَحَد وَعِشْرِين طِفْلًا لِثَلاث عَائِلات تَعِيشُ فِي مَنْزِلٍ لا تَتَجَاوَز مِسَاحَتُهُ مِئَة وَأَرْبَعَة وَأَرْبَعِين مِتْرًا. تُقِيم فِيه كُلّ عَائِلَة دَاخِلَ غُرْفَةٍ لا تَكْفِي لِٱحْتِوَاء أَجْسَاد ٱلصِّغَار اَلْمُمَدَّدَة عَلَى فَرْشَاتٍ صَغِيرَة اِخْتَفَتْ أَلْوَانُهَا مَعَ مُرُور ٱلزَّمَن. وَفِي زَاوِيَةٍ صَغِيرَة مِن مَدْخَل ٱلْمَنْزِل، تَتَكَدَّسُ بَعْض قَوَارِير ٱلْمَاء ٱلْفَارِغَة اَلَّتِي تَسْتَخْدِمُهَا عَائِلَةُ عَلِيّ لِسَدّ حَاجَتِهَا ٱلْيَوْمِيَّة مِن ٱلْمَاء، بَيْنَمَا شَكَّلَتْ بَاحَةٌ صَغِيرَة دَاخِلِيَّة مَطْبَخًا وُضِعَ فِيه أُنْبُوب ٱلْغَاز وَطَبَّاخٌ صَغِير، عَلَتْ سَطْحَهُ كُتَلٌ مِن ٱلدُّهُون وَٱلْأَوْسَاخ.
A scene which is repeated in every street and alley; Dozens of children living in a cramped house which is not big enough [even] for five people and lacks water and electricity. Such is the life in many Iraqi towns. Ali in his sixth [year] of age is one of twenty one children from three families living in a house whose area is no more than one hundred and forty four metres [squared]. Every family lives in it [the house] inside a room which is not sufficient to hold the bodies of the young ones lying on small mattresses/foam mats the colours of which have disappeared with the passing of time. In a small corner of the entrance to the house there are piled up some empty water bottles which Alis family uses to meet its daily need of water while a small internal courtyard forms a kitchen in which has been placed a gas cylinder and a small cooker on top of whose surface are lumps of fat and dirt.
تَحَوَّلَتْ مَدِينَةُ أُمّ ٱلْفَحْم، ثَانِي كُبْرَى ٱلْمُدُن ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة فِي إِسْرَائِيل، إِلَى نُقْطَةِ تَمَاسّ بَيْنَ مُوَاطِنِيهَا ٱلْعَرَب وَبَيْنَ ٱلشُّرْطَة ٱلْإِسْرَائِيلِيَّة اَلَّتِي كَانَتْ تَحْرُسُ مَسِيرَةً اِسْتِفْزَازِيَّة لِيَهُودٍ مُتَطَرِّفِين مِن أَنْصَار حَرَكَةِ «كَاهَانَا» اَلْعُنْصُرِيَّة. وَأَسْفَرَتْ ٱلْاِشْتِبَاكَات عَن اِعْتِقَال مُتَظَاهِرِين فِلَسْطِينِيِّين وَإِصَابَةِ بَعْضِهِم ٱلْآخَر، خُصُوصًا نَائِبَان عَرَبِيَّان فِي ٱلْكْنِيسِت. كَمَا تَزَامَنَتْ مَعَ تَمْرِير قَانُون عُنْصُرِيّ جَدِيد فِي ٱلْكْنِيسِت يَسْمَحُ لِبَلَدَاتٍ يَهُودِيَّة صَغِيرَة مَنْع «مَنْ لا يُلائِمُون ٱلنَّسِيجَ ٱلْاِجْتِمَاعِيّ لِسُكَّانِهَا»، أَيْ غَيْر ٱلْيَهُود، مِن ٱلْإِقَامَةِ فِيهَا. وَتَتَزَامَنُ ٱلْمَسِيرَةُ ٱلْمُثِيرَةُ لِلْجَدَل اَلَّتِي حَصَلَتْ عَلَى إِذْنٍ مِن ٱلشُّرْطَة وَٱلْمَحْكَمَة ٱلْعُلْيَا ٱلْإِسْرَائِيلِيَّة، مَعَ ٱلذِّكْرَى ٱلسَّنَوِيَّة ٱلْعِشْرِين لِمَقْتَل ٱلْحَاخَام مَئِير كَاهَانَا اَلَّذِي كَانَ يَدْعُو إِلَى طَرْد ٱلْعَرَب مِن إِسْرَائِيل وَإِقَامَةِ دَوْلَة تَوْرَاتِيَّة. فِي ٱلْوَقْت نَفْسِه، قَالَ مُنَظِّمُو اَلْمَسِيرَة إِنَّهَا تَأْتِي فِي سِيَاق ٱلْمُطَالَبَة بِحَظْر «ٱلْحَرَكَةِ ٱلْإِسْلامِيَّة».
The town of Umm al-Fahm the second largest of the Arab towns in Israel turned into a point of contact between its Arab citizens and (between) the Israeli Police who were guarding a provocative march of extremist Jews from among the supporters of the racist Kehane movement. The clashes resulted in the arrest of Palestinian demonstrators and the injuring of some others in particular two Arab [parliamentary] representatives in the Knesset. And it coincided with the passing of a new racist law in the Knesset which allows small Jewish towns to prevent those who do not suit the social fabric of its inhabitants that is non-Jews from living in them. The controversial march which had obtained permission from the Police and the Israeli Supreme Court coincided with the twentieth anniversary of the killing of Rabbi Meir Kehane who was calling for the expulsion of the Arabs from Israel and the setting up of a Torahic state. At the same time organisers of the march said that it came in the context of calling for the banning of the Islamic Movement [i.e. Hamas].
لِلْوَهْلَةِ ٱلْأُولَى يُذَكِّرُونَكَ بِحَيَاةِ «ٱلْغَجَر» عَلَى أَطْرَاف ٱلْمُدُن وَٱلْبُلْدَان، فَحَيَاتُهُم سَفَرٌ دَائِم، بَيْنَ بَلْدَةٍ وَأُخْرَى، فِي كُلّ بَلْدَة يَحُطُّون رِحَالَهُم بِهَا، لا يَمْكَثُون سِوَى شَهْرَيْن، بَعْدَهَا سُرْعَانَ مَا يَشُدُّون ٱلرِّحَال إِلَى مِنْطَقَةٍ أُخْرَى. لا يَمْلِكُون شَيْئًا غَيْر مَا يُعِينُهُم عَلَى شَظَف ٱلْحَيَاة وَيَجْعَلُهُم قَادِرِين عَلَى ٱلْاِسْتِمْرَار فِيهَا، دُون أَنْ يَطْلُبُوا يَد ٱلْعَوْن مِن أَحَد. حَتَّى إِنَّهُ إِذَا مَرَّ عَلَيْهِم أَحَد اِعْتَقَدَ أَنَّهُم مِن ٱلْبَدْو أَوْ ٱلْأَعْرَاب، فَهُم يُشْبِهُونَهُم فِي ٱلْكَثِير مِن حَيْثُ ٱلْخَيْمَة اَلَّتِي تَجْمَعُهُم تَحْتَهَا، وَٱلْأَغْنَام وَٱلطُّيُور اَلَّتِي حَوْلَهُم، وَرُبَّمَا فِيمَا يَرْتَدُونَهُ مِن ثِيَاب، لٰكِنَكَ إِذَا جَلَستَ مَعَهُم وَٱقْتَرَبتَ مِنهُم أَكْثَر اِكْتَشَفتَ أَنَّهُم لَيْسُوا سِوَى مَجْمُوعَةٍ مِن ٱلْإِخْوَة وَرِثُوا مِهْنَةَ أَبِيهِم وَأَجْدَادِهِم فِي رَعْي ٱلْأَغْنَام وَٱلْمَوَاشِي، اَلْمِهْنَة اَلَّتِي تَتَطَلَّبُ ٱلتَّرْحَال وَٱلسَّفَر بَحْثًا عَن ٱلْعُشْب وَٱلزَّرْع اَلَّذِي يَجِدُون فِيهِ ضَالَّتَهُم.
At first glance [lit. instant] they remind you of the life of gypsies on the edges of cities and countries. For their life is constant travelling between one town and another. In every town they make a stop [lit. set down their saddlebags/baggage] they dont remain for more than two months after which they soon set out [lit. fasten their saddlebags/baggage] for another region. They dont own anything other than what helps them against the hardships of life and makes them able to continue in it [their life] without their asking for a helping hand from anyone. It is such that if someone passes by them he will think that they were Bedouins or [desert] Arabs as they resemble them in many ways - as regards the tent which gathers them under it the sheep and the birds which are around them and perhaps in what they wear in the way of clothes. But if you sit with them and get closer to them you will discover that they are nothing but a group of fellow men [lit. brothers] who inherited the profession of their father and grandfathers in tending sheep and cattle - a job which requires moving on and travelling in the search for grass and crops/vegetation in which they find the goal of their quest.
لا أَدْرِي مَا حُكْم هٰذَا؟! وَإِلَيكُمْ ٱلْحِكَايَةُ مِن أَوَّلِهَا، فَقَد قَبَضَتْ ٱلسُّلُطَاتُ عَلَى أَحَد ٱلْأَشْخَاص وَفِي حَوْزَتِهِ مَبَالِغ نَقْدِيَّةٌ مُزَيَّفَة، وَقَد دَافَعَ هُوَ عَن نَفْسِه بِٱلْحُجَّةِ ٱلتَّالِيَة قَائِلًا: إِنَّنِي عَثَرتُ عَلَى هٰذِهِ ٱلْمَبَالِغ فِي (طَرْدٍ) مُلْقَى فِي زَاوِيَةٍ مُظْلِمَة فِي إِحْدَى ٱلْمَحَطَّات، وَعِنْدَمَا فَتَحتُه وَجَدتُهُ يَحْتَوِي عَلَى هٰذِهِ ٱلنُّقُود، فَتَوَجَّهتُ لِلصَّحِيفَةِ (ٱلْفُلانِيَّة) وَنَشَرتُ ٱلْإِعْلان ٱلتَّالِي: يُوجَدُ لَدَيَّ طَرْدٌ يَحْتَوِي عَلَى مَبْلَغٍ كَبِيرٍ مِن ٱلْمَال، وَإِنَّنِي عَلَى اِسْتِعْدَادٍ أَنْ أُعِيدَهُ لِصَاحِبِهِ إِذَا أَعْطَى وَصْفًا صَحِيحًا لِمَا فِيه. وَقَد مَرَّتْ عَلَى إِعْلانِي ذٰلِكَ سَنَةٌ كَامِلَة بِٱلتَّمَام، وَعِنْدَمَا لَمْ يَتَقَدَّم أَحَدٌ لِإِثْبَات حَقِّه اِعْتَبَرتُهَا (لَقِيَّة) مِن ٱلنَّاحِيَة ٱلشَّرْعِيَّة، وَتَصَرَّفتُ بِهَا دُون أَنْ أَعْلَم أَنَّ تِلْكَ ٱلنُّقُود مُزَيَّفَة. فَهَلْ تِلْكَ ٱلْمَبَالِغ تُعْتَبَرُ حَلالًا زُلالًا عَلَى قَلْب ذٰلِكَ ٱلرَّجُل؟!، أَمْ أَنَّهُ يَجِبُ أَنْ يَنَالَ ٱلْعِقَاب؟!.
I dont know what the judgement on this is! Heres the story from the beginning: The authorities arrested one of the people and in his possession were [large] amounts of forged money. He defended himself with the following argument saying: I discovered these sums [of money] in a package thrown down/discarded in a dark corner in one of the stations and when I opened it I found it contained this money. So I went to the newspaper such-and-such and published the following announcement: There is with me a package containing a large amount of money and I am prepared to return it to its owner if he gives a correct description of what is in it. An entire full year had passed since that advertisement of mine. And when no-one had come forward to prove his right [to it] I considered it a found thing [which I could keep] from the [Islamic] legal side and I disposed/spent freely of it without knowing that that money was forged. So are those amounts considered lawful and [like] clear pure water on the heart of that man? Or must he receive the punishment?!
أَثَارَ ثُعْبَان «كُوبْرَا» ضَخْم حَالَةً مِن ٱلذُّعْر وَٱلْهَلَع بَيْنَ ٱلْمُوَاطِنِين فِي قَرْيَةِ «عَرَب ٱلشَّيْخ مُحَمَّد» بِمُحَافَظَةِ ٱلْمِنْيَا بِصَعِيد مِصْر، خَاصَّةً بَعْدَمَا شَاهَدُوه لِمُدَّةِ ثَلاثَةِ أَشْهُر يُهَاجِمُ ٱلْقَرْيَة وَيُطَارِدُهُم بَيْنَ ٱلْحِين وَٱلْآخَر ثُمَّ يَخْتَفِي. وَفِي أَعْقَاب فَشَلِهِم فِي ٱلْإِمْسَاك بِٱلثُّعْبَان اِسْتَنْجَدَ ٱلْأَهَالِي بِعَدَدٍ كَبِيرٍ مِن ٱلْحُوَاة وَٱلسَّحَرَة حَتَّى عَثَرُوا عَلَيْه. وَأَبْلَغَ ٱلدُّكْتُور مُحَمَّد خَلَف، بِمُدِيرِيَّةِ ٱلطِّبّ ٱلْبَيْطَرِيّ فِي مُحَافَظَةِ ٱلْمِنْيَا «اَلشَّرْق ٱلأَوْسَط» أَنَّ ٱلثُّعْبَان اَلَّذِي عُثِرَ عَلَيْه صَحْرَاوِيّ وَلا يَحْتَاجُ لِلْمَاء، وَيُعَمِّرُ طَوِيلًا، وَيَبْلُغ طُولُهُ مِتْرًا وَنِصْف ٱلْمِتْر، وَجِسْمُهُ أُسْطُواَنِيّ، وَعَيْنَاهُ صَغِيرَتَان، وَلَوْن ظَهْرِهِ أَسْوَد وَٱلْبَطْن أَصْفَر فَاقِع، وَهُوَ سَامٌّ يَتَغَذَّى عَلَى ٱلْقَوَارِض وَٱلطُّيُور وَٱلْحَشَرَات. وَتَمَّ ٱلتَّحَفُّظ عَلَى ٱلثُّعْبَان دَاخِلَ أَحَد ٱلصَّنَادِيق بِٱلْمُدِيرِيَّة.
A huge cobra caused a state of fear and panic among the citizens in the village of the Arabs of Sheikh Mohammed in the governorate of el-Minya in Upper Egypt especially after they had witnessed it over a period of three months attacking the village and chasing after them from time to time and then disappearing. And following their failure to catch the snake the inhabitants called out for the help of a large number of snake charmers and sorcerers until they found it. Dr. Mohammed Khalaf of the Directorate of Veterinary Medicine in the governorate of el-Minya informed Asharq Alawsat: that the snake which was discovered is a desert one and does not need water and lives a long time. Its length comes to a meter and a half and its body is cylindrical. Its eyes are small. The color of its back is black and the belly is vivid yellow. It is venomous and lives/feeds on rodents birds and insects. The snake is being kept inside one of the boxes/crates at the Directorate.
تَسَبَّبَ خَطَأٌ جَسِيمٌ لِأُمٍّ مِن مُحَافَظَةِ ٱلْإِسْمَاعِيلِيَّة (شَرْقَ ٱلْقَاهِرَة) فِي مَقْتَل ٱبْنِهَا، وَذٰلِكَ بَعْدَ أَنْ وَضَعَتْ جِسْمًا غَرِيبًا مِن مُخَلَّفَات ٱلْحُرُوب ضِمْنَ مَجْمُوعَةٍ مِن ٱلْأَخْشَاب اَلَّتِي تَسْتَخْدِمُهَا لِإِيْقَاد فُرْنِهَا ٱلطِّينِيّ مِن أَجْل صِنَاعَةِ ٱلْخُبْز بِمَنْزِلِهَا اَلْوَاقِع فِي إِحْدَى قُرَى ٱلْمُحَافَظَة. وَأَفَادَتْ مَصَادِر أَمْنِيَّة بِمُحَافَظَةِ ٱلْإِسْمَاعِيلِيَّة بِأَنَّ ٱلْمُعَايَنَةَ ٱلْمَبْدَئِيَّة لِجَسَد ٱلصَّبِيّ كَشَفَتْ عَن وُجُود شَظَايَا فِي أَنْحَاءٍ مُتَفَرِّقَة مِن جَسَدِهِ، وَأَنَّ ٱلْوَفَاة كَانَتْ بِسَبَب وَضْع ٱلْأُمّ (عَن غَيْر عَمْدٍ) جِسْمًا حَدِيدِيًّا مِن مُخَلَّفَات ٱلْحُرُوب بِٱلْمِنْطَقَة دَاخِلَ ٱلْفُرْن، وَعِنْدَ تَعَرُّض هٰذَا ٱلْجِسْم لِدَرَجَةِ حَرَارَةٍ عَالِيَة اِنْفَجَر وَأَدَّى إِلَى مَقْتَل ٱلصَّبِيّ وَجَرْح وَالِدَتِهٍ بِجُرُوحٍ طَفِيفَة. وَقَرَّرَ مُحَمَّد عُثْمَان وَكِيل نِيَابَةِ ٱلتَّلّ ٱلْكَبِير اِنْتِدَاب ٱلطِّبّ ٱلشَّرْعِيّ لِمُنَاظَرَةِ وَتَشْرِيح ٱلْجُثَّة.
A grave mistake by a mother from the governorate of Ismailia (to the east of Cairo) resulted in the killing of her son. This was after she placed a foreign body/object from the remnants of war among a collection of wood which she was using to light her clay oven in order to make bread at her house which lies in one of the villages of the governorate. Security sources of the governorate of Ismailia reported that the initial examination of the body of the boy had revealed the existence of splinters/fragments in various areas of his body and that the death was due to the mother (unintentionally) putting an iron object from the remnants of war in the region inside the oven. And when this object was exposed to the high temperature it exploded and led to the killing of the boy and the injuring of his mother with light injuries. Mohammed Othman attorney/authorized representative of the office of the Prosecutor of Tel el-Kabir decided to assign the forensics [department] to inspect and perform an autopsy on the body.
فَجْر ٱلْخَامِس مِن أَيْلُول (سِبْتَمْبِر) ٱلْمَاضِي، وَكَعَادَتِهَا مُنْذُ بَدْء شَهْر رَمَضَان، اِسْتَيْقَظَتْ هَالَة عَاصِلَة مِن قَرْيَةِ عَرَابَة فِي ٱلْجَلِيل، شَمَالَ فِلَسْطِين، مِن نَوْمِهَا، وَأَيْقَظَتْ أَطْفَالَهَا ٱلْأَرْبَعَة لِتُعِدَّ لَهُم طَعَام ٱلسَّحُور. لَمْ تَكُن هَالَة تَعْرِف أَنَّهَا لَنْ تَرَى بُزُوغ ٱلْفَجْر بَعْدَ ذٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْم، فَعَلَى حِينِ غِرَّة سَمِعَ ٱلْجِيرَان صُرَاخًا يَنْبَعِثُ مِن بَيْتِهَا، وَفِي تِلْكَ ٱللَّحْظَة، كَانَ زَوْجُهَا يَنْقَضُّ عَلَيْهَا بِسِكِّين وَيُمَزِّق جَسَدَهَا عَلَى مَرْأَى مِن أَطْفَالِهَا. كَانَتْ هَالَة حَامِلًا فِي ٱلشَّهْر ٱلسَّابِع، عَمِلَتْ مُرَبِّيَةً فِي رَوْضَةٍ لِلْأَطْفَال فِي ٱلْقَرْيَة، وَكُلّ مَنْ عَرَفَهَا يَشْهَدُ لَهَا بِحُسْن أَخْلَاقِهَا وَعَطَائِهَا. وَتَشْهَد وَالِدَتُهَا اَلَّتِي زَارَتْهَا فِي بَيْتِهَا لَيْلَةَ وُقُوع ٱلْجَرِيمَة أَنَّهُ لَمْ تَظْهَر عَلَى ٱبْنَتِهَا أَوْ زَوْجِهَا أَيّ بَوَادِر صِرَاعٍ بَيْنَهُمَا، وَلا أَحَد يَعْرِف حَتَّى ٱلآن مَا اَلَّذِي حَدَثَ فِي بَيْت هَالَة فِي تِلْكَ ٱلسَّاعَةِ ٱلْمُبَكِّرَة.
Dawn on the fifth of last Ayloul (September) and as was her habit since the start of the month of Ramadan Hala Asila of the village of Araba in Galilee in the north of Palestine woke from her sleep and woke her four children to prepare for them the food of sahur [last meal before daybreak in Ramadan]. Hala did not know that she would not see the break of dawn after that day. Because all of a sudden [lit. unexpectedly] the neighbors heard screams coming out from her house. At that moment her husband was attacking/pouncing on her with a knife and slashing her body in the sight of her children. Hala was seven months pregnant. She worked as a teacher at a kindergarten in the village. All who knew her testified in her favour as to her good morals and giving [nature]. Her mother who had visited her at her house on the night of the happening of the crime testified: that there had not been showing on her daughter or her husband any signs of a fight between them. And no-one knows until now what happened in the house of Hala at that early hour.
لَمْ يَسْتَطِع سَائِق حَافِلَةِ أُجْرَةٍ صَغِيرَة «مِينِي بَاص» تَحَمُّل وَطْأَةِ ٱلْغَرَامَة ٱلنَّاجِمَة عَن سَيْرِهِ بِعَكْس ٱلْٱتِّجَاه فِي ٱلطَّرِيق ٱلْعَامّ، تَبْلُغ أَلْف وَخَمْسُمِئَة جُنَيْه، فَحَاوَلَ ٱلْهُرُوب مِن رِجَال ٱلْمُرُور ٱلْمُطَارِدِين، لٰكِنَّ عَجَلَةَ ٱلْقِيَادَة اِخْتَلَّتْ فِي يَدَيه وَسَقَطَتْ ٱلْحَافِلَة فِي تُرْعَةِ ٱلْإِسْمَاعِيلِيَّة قُرْب شُبْرَا ٱلْخَيْمَة، شَمَال ٱلْقَاهِرَة، فَتُوُفِّيَ غَرَقًا. وَلٰكِن إِثْرَ وَفَاةِ ٱلسَّائِق عَبْد ٱلرَّحْمٰن مَحْمُود (ثَمَانِي عَشْرَةَ سَنَة)، ظُهْرَ أَوَّل مِن أَمْس، تَجَمَّعَ فِي ٱلْمَسَاء مِئَاتٌ مِن أَقَارِبِهِ وَجِيرَانِهِ وَأَصْدِقَائِه فِي «مَوْقِف عَبُود» أَكْبَر مَوْقِفٍ لِسَيَّارَات «ٱلسَّرْفِيس» وَٱلْأُجْرَة فِي مِصْر، وَمِن ثُمَّ قَطَعُوا ٱلطَّرِيق، وَمَنَعُوا حَرَكَةَ ٱلسَّيَّارَات لِأَكْثَر مِن سَاعَتَيْن، قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَمَكَّنَ رِجَال ٱلشُّرْطَة مِن ٱلسَّيْطَرَةِ عَلَى ٱلْوَضْع وَفَضّ ٱلْمُتَظَاهِرِين. أُسْرَةُ ٱلسَّائِق اِتَّهَمَتْ، فِي بَلاغٍ رَسْمِيّ، أَمِين شُرْطَة بِمُلاحَقَةِ اِبْنِهَا، بَعْدَ سَحْب رُخْصَتِهِ وَمَرْكَبَتِهِ، مِمَّا جَعَلَهُ يَقْفِزُ فِي ٱلْمِيَاه فَزَعًا.
The driver of the small taxi bus (minibus) could not bear the pressure of the fine resulting from his going the wrong way on the main road which came to 1500 [Egyptian] pounds [approx. USD250]. So he tried to escape from the pursuing traffic police. But the steering wheel became unbalanced/faulty in his hands and the bus fell into Ismailia Canal near Shubra el-Khaima north of Cairo and he drowned. But following the death of the driver Abdel Rahman Mahmoud (18 years old) at noon the day before yesterday there gathered in the evening hundreds of his relatives neighbours and friends at the Aboud taxi stand the largest stand for service taxis [i.e. shared taxis] and [regular] taxis in Egypt and then they cut off the road and prevented the movement of cars for more than two hours before the police were able to take control of the situation and break up the demonstrators. In an official statement the family of the driver accused a policeman of chasing/hounding their son after taking away his licence and vehicle which made him jump into the water in panic.
بَاعَةٌ مُتَجَوِّلُون، أَدِلَّاء سِيَاحِيُّون، شُعَرَاء أَوْ مُؤَرِّخُون... هُم أَطْفَالٌ يَشْحَذُون مَوَاهِبَهُم وَيَسْتَعْرِضُونَهَا لِإِقْنَاع زَائِر ٱلْعَاصِمَةِ ٱلْيَمَنِيَّة صَنْعَاء بِأَنَّهُم يَسْتَحِقُّون كُلّ فِلْسٍ يَمْنَحُهُم إِيَّاه. يَنْتَشِرُون فِي ٱلْأَمَاكِن ٱلسِّيَاحِيَّة مِن «بَاب ٱلْيَمَن» أَوْ «صَنْعَاء ٱلْقَدِيمَة»، مُرُورًا بـِ«قَلْعَةِ ٱلْبُوس» فِي أَحَد ٱلْجِبَال ٱلْمُحِيطَة بِٱلْعَاصِمَةِ ٱلْيَمَنِيَّة، وُصُولًا إِلَى «دَار ٱلْحَجَر» حَيْثُ كَانَ مَقَرّ ٱلْإِمَام. كَذٰلِكَ هُم فِي ٱلْمُتْنَزَهَاتِ ٱلْقَرِيبَة مِن ضَاحِيَةِ «حَدَّة» اَلَّتِي تَسْكُنُهَا فِئَاتٌ مَيْسُورَة، يَحْمِلُون مُنْتَجَاتٍ رِيفِيَّة مِن بَيْض وَفَاكِهَة وَيَبِيعُونَهَا مَعَ قَصَائِد جَاهِزَة لِكُلّ شَخْص بَعْد سُؤَالِهِ عَن اِسْمِه.
Street vendors [lit. travelling sellers] tourist guides poets or historians... They are the children who hone their skills and show them off to persuade the visitor to the Yemeni capital Sanaa that they deserve every penny he gives them. They spread out in tourist places; from Yemen Gate or Old Sanaa passing through Bous Castle in one of the mountains surrounding the Yemeni capital and arriving at Dar al-Hajar [=the Rock Palace] where was the residence of the Imam [Yahya d. AD 1948]. Likewise they are in the nearby parks of the suburb of Hadda (in which live the prosperous classes) carrying their rural products of eggs and fruit which they sell with [pre-] prepared poems for every person after asking him his name.
عَلَى مَقْرُبَةٍ مِن شَوَاطِئ ٱلْبَحْر، فِي ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّة عَرُوس ٱلْمُتَوَسِّط بِمِصْر، تَقْبَع «سُوق ٱلْجُمْعَة» أَشْهَر أَسْوَاقِهَا ٱلشَّعْبِيَّة وَأَقْدَمُهَا. فَمَا هِيَ إِلَّا خَطَوَات قَلِيلَة فِي ٱلسُّوق حَتَّى تُلامِس عَيْنَاك أَصْنَافًا شَتَّى مِن ٱلْأَشْيَاء، يَمْتَزِجُ فِيهَا ٱلْقَدِيم ٱلْمُعَتَّق بِٱلْحَدِيث ٱلطَّازِج: «سَاعَات، مَلابِس، أَثَاث، أَنْتِيكَات مُتَنَوِّعَة، أَدَوَات صِحِّيَّة، أَجْهِزَة كَهْرَبَائِيَّة، تُحَف وَنَجَف، عُمْلات نَادِرَة، هَوَاتِف قَدِيمَة وَأُخْرَى حَدِيثَة جَوَّالَة، أَدَوَات صَيْد وَمَاكِينَات، لَوْحَات فَنِّيَة، قِطَع غِيَار سَيَّارَات، بِٱلْإِضَافَةِ لِسُوق ٱلْخُضَر، اَلَّتِي تَعْرِض صُنُوفًا مِن ٱلْفَاكِهَة وَٱللُّحُوم وَٱلْأَسْمَاك، وَشَتَّى مُسْتَلْزَمَات ٱلْمَعِيشَة»... كُلّ هٰذَا وَأَكْثَر اِجْتَمَعَ فِي مَكَانٍ وَاحِد تَحْتَ مِظَلَّةِ هٰذِهِ ٱلسُّوق.
Close to the shores of the sea in Alexandria Bride of the Mediterranean in Egypt squats the Friday Market the most famous of [the city's] peoples markets and the oldest of them. It is not but a few steps into the market when your eyes set upon [lit. touch] all kinds of things in which are mixed the old and mellow/matured with the modern and fresh; Clocks clothes furniture various antiques sanitary ware and electrical appliances objects and chandeliers and rare currencies telephones old and others modern and mobile fishing equipment and machines (artistic) paintings and car spare parts in addition to the vegetable market which displays/offers up [different] types of fruit and meat and fish and all kinds of necessities for living... All this and more is gathered together in one place under the roof [lit. shade] of this market.
يَرْوِي بَعْض ٱلْأَشْخَاص اَلَّذِينَ اِلْتَقَيتَهُم فِي ٱلرِّبَاط، أَنَّ جُدْرَان أَحَد ٱلْقُصُور ٱلْمَوْجُودَة فِي ٱلْعَاصِمَة مَسْحُورَة، وَأَنَّ ٱلسَّبَب فِي ذٰلِك يَعُود إِلَى أَنَّ زَوْجَةَ صَاحِب ٱلْقَصْر، أَتَتْ بِأَفْضَل ٱلسَّحَرَة لِيَكْتُبُوا لَهَا عَلَى جُدْرَان ٱلْقَصْر، أَحْجِبَةً وَأُحْجِيَّةً وَكَلِمَاتٍ وَجُمَلًا كَثِيرَة تَتَعَلَّق بِٱلسِّحْر، لِكَيْ لا تَدْخُلُ ٱلْقَصْر سَيِّدَةٌ غَيْرَهَا، وَلِكَيْ لا تَمْلِكُ ٱلْقَصْر سَيِّدَةٌ غَيْرَهَا، وَلِكَيْ لا تُسَيْطِر عَلَى ٱلرَّجُل سَيِّدَةٌ غَيْرَهَا. مَعَ ذٰلِك، فَإِنَّهُ وَبِحَسَب ٱلرُّوَاة أَنْفُسِهِم، فَقَد تَزَوَّجَ زَوْجُهَا بِغَيْرِهَا عِدَّةَ مَرَّات، وَٱلسَّيِّدَاتُ اَللَّاتِي دَخَلنَ ٱلْقَصْر، لا حَصْر لِأَعْدَادِهِنَّ وَلا لِأَسْمَائِهِنّ. مَعَ ذٰلِك، فَٱلْمَغْرِب مَعْرُوف أَنَّهُ بَلَد ٱلسِّحْر، وَثَمَّةَ حِكَايَاتٌ كَثِيرَة وَرِوَايَاتٌ شَعْبِيَّة وَكَلامٌ كَبِير وَكَثِير، حَوْلَ عَلاقَةِ ٱلْمَغَارِبَة بِٱلسِّحْر وَعَلاقَةِ ٱلسِّحْر بِهِم.
Some of the people who you meet in Rabat relate [the story] that the walls of one of the palaces present in the capital are bewitched and that the reason for this goes back to the fact that the wife of the owner of the palace brought the best magicians/sorcerers to write for her on the walls of the palace: amulets [here = words which create a barrier] riddles and many words and sentences connected with magic so that a woman other than her would not enter the palace and so that a woman other than her would not own the palace and so that a woman other than her would not gain control over the man. Despite this and according to the storytellers themselves her husband married many times other than her and the women who have entered the palace have no limit to their numbers or their names. However Morocco is well known for being the land of magic and there are many stories and folk tales and much expansive talk about the relationship of the Moroccans with magic and the relationship of magic with them.
فِي يَوْمٍ صَيْفِيٍّ قَائِظ وَفِي عِزّ ٱلظَّهِيرَة، دَخَلتُ عَلَى صَدِيقٍ عَازِب، فِي شَقَّتِهِ ٱلْمُشْرَعَةِ ٱلْأَبْوَاب دَائِمًا اَلَّتِي لَيْسَ عَلَيْهَا أَيّ أَقْفَال، كَأَيّ وَكَالَة مِن غَيْر بَوَّاب. وَوَجَدتُهُ مَطْرُوحًا عَلَى ٱلْأَرْض كَٱلْبَعِير ٱلْأَجْرَب وَهُوَ يَغِطُّ فِي سُبَاتٍ عَمِيق، وَلَفَت نَظَرِي أَنَّهُ قَد وَضَعَ رَأْسَهُ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْض بَيْنَمَا كَانَتْ قَدَمَاهُ ٱلْغَلِيظَتَان عَلَى ٱلْوِسَادَة أَوْ ٱلْمِخَدَّة. فَمَا كَانَ مِنِّي إِلَّا أَنْ أَرْفُسَه لِكَيْ أُوقِظَه، وَفِعْلًا اِسْتَيْقَظ، وَسَأَلتُهُ عَن طَرِيقَتِهِ ٱلْعَجِيبَةِ هٰذِهِ فِي ٱلنَّوْم، فَأَكَّدَ لِي أَنَّهُ يَتَّبِع هٰذِهِ ٱلطَّرِيقَة مُنْذُ عِدَّةِ سَنَوَات، بَعْدَ أَنْ قَرَأَ أَنَّ ٱلْفَلَّاحِين فِي أُورُوبَّا كَانُوا إِلَى أَوَائِل ٱلْقَرْن ٱلتَّاسِع عَشَر يَفْعَلُون ذٰلِك، وَهُم يَنَامُون وَأَقْدَامُهُم، لا رُؤُوسَهُم، هِيَ اَلَّتِي تَكُون عَلَى ٱلْوَسَائِد، اِعْتِقَادًا مِنهُم أَنَّ ٱلْأَقْدَام هِيَ أَكْثَر مِن ٱلرُّؤُوس مُعَانَاةً فِي ٱلنَّهَار، وَهِيَ اَلَّتِي أَجْدَر مِنهَا بِٱلرَّاحَة.
On a scorching summer day at the height of the midday heat I went in on a bachelor friend in his apartment the doors of which are always open which [doors] don't have on them any locks like any agency without a doorman [i.e. a disorganized place where anyone can just walk in]. I found him laid out on the floor like a mangy/scabby camel and he was snoring in a deep slumber. It came to my attention that he had put his head on the floor while his big [lit. rough] feet were on the cushion or pillow. There was nothing for me to do except kick him to wake him up. And indeed he did wake up and I asked him about this strange method of his for sleeping. He said to me that he had been following this method for many years after he read that the peasants in Europe used to in the early part of the nineteenth century do that sleeping with their feet and not their heads being what were on the pillows in their belief that the feet were more than the heads in terms of suffering [i.e. feet suffered more than heads] in the day and they were what were more deserving than them [=heads] of rest.
اِمْتَدَّتْ أَزْمَةُ زِيَادَةِ ٱلْمَوَالِيد فِي مِصْر مِن عَالَم ٱلْبَشَر إِلَى عَالَم «ٱلْأُسُود»، وَذٰلِكَ بَعْدَ أَنْ وَصَلَ عَدَد ٱلْأُسُود دَاخِل حَدِيقَةِ ٱلْحَيَوَان بِمَدِينَةِ ٱلْجِيزَة (جَنُوب ٱلْعَاصِمَة ٱلْقَاهِرَة) إِلَى مِئَة وَٱثْنَتَيْن وَأَرْبَعِين أَسَدًا، وَهُوَ مَا دَعَا إِدَارَةَ ٱلْحَدِيقَة إِلَى ٱلْاِسْتِعَانَة بِخِبْرَةِ فَرِيقٍ مِن خُبَرَاء جِرَاحَةِ ٱلْحَيَوَانَات اَلْبَرِّيَّة مِن جَنُوب أَفْرِيقِيَا لِإِجْرَاء عِدَّةِ عَمَلِيَّات جِرَاحِيَّة لِتَعْقِيم أَرْبَعَةِ أُسُود لِمَنْعِهَا مِن ٱلتَّكَاثُر، وَذٰلِكَ بَعْدَ أَنْ قَامَتْ ٱلْحَدِيقَةُ خِلالَ ٱلسَّنَوَات ٱلْأَخِيرَة بِٱسْتِخْدَام طُرُقٍ عِدَّة لِلْحَدّ مِن ٱلزِّيَادَة ٱلْمُطَّرِدَة فِي أَعْدَاد ٱلْأُسُود بِهَا؛ مِنهَا إِعْطَاء إِنَاث ٱلْأُسُود (اَللَّبُؤَات) مَوَانِع لِلْحَمْل لِلسَّيْطَرَةِ عَلَى هٰذَا ٱلْاِزْدِيَاد.
The crisis of the increase in births in Egypt has spread from the world of humans to the world of lions. This is after the number of lions in the zoo in the city of Giza (south of the capital Cairo) reached one hundred and forty two lions something which prompted the management of the zoo to seek the help of the experience of a team of experts in the surgery of wild animals from South Africa to perform a number of surgical operations to sterilize four lions to prevent them from multiplying. This is after the zoo undertook during recent years the use of a number of methods for putting an end to the steady increase in the number of lions with including giving the female lions (lionesses) contraceptives to control this increase.
دَفَعَ شَابٌّ مِن مَدِينَةِ ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّة حَيَاتَهُ ثَمَنًا لِحُبِّهِ ٱلْجَارِف لِلْغِنَاء أَثْنَاءَ ٱلْاِسْتِحْمَام، وَذٰلِكَ بَعْدَ أَنْ أَطَالَ ٱلْبَقَاء تَحْتَ ٱلْمِيَاه ٱلْجَارِيَة لِتَصْعَقَهُ ٱلْكَهْرَبَاء نَتِيجَةَ عُطْلٍ بِدَائِرَةِ ٱلسَّخَّان ٱلْكَهْرَبَائِيَّة. وَأَفَادَتْ تَحْقِيقَات ٱلنِّيَابَة بِأَنَّ ٱلشَّابّ «مِيم. سِين. مِيم.» مِن مَدِينَةِ ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّة. وَٱلَّذِي يَبْلُغ مِن ٱلْعُمْر سَبْعَةَ عَشَر عَامًا وَيَمْتَهِن مَجَال ٱلْمِعْمَار، قَد عَادَ إِلَى مَنْزِلِهِ عَقِبَ يَوْم عَمَلٍ شَاقّ. وَأَصَرَّ ٱلشَّابّ عَلَى ٱلْاِسْتِحْمَام، عَلَى ٱلرَّغْم مِن تَحْذِير وَالِدَتِهِ مِن تَلَف ٱلسَّخَّان ٱلْكَهْرَبَائِيّ بِمَنْزِلِهِم، وَتَأْكِيدِهَا لَهُ أَنَّهَا أُصِيبَتْ بِصَعَقَاتٍ بَسِيطَة مُتَكَرِّرَة جَرَّاءَ عُطْلٍ بِدَوَائِرِهِ ٱلْكَهْرَبَائِيَّة. إِلَّا أَنَّ ٱلشَّابّ ٱلْمُتَحَمِّس لَمْ يَأْبَه لِتَحْذِيرَاتِ وَالِدَتِهِ، وَأَصَرَّ عَلَى مَوْقِفِهِ. وَقَالَتْ ٱلْأُمّ فِي ٱلتَّحْقِيقَات إِنَّهَا سَمِعَتْ صَوْتَ اِرْتِطَامٍ قَوِيّ بِٱلْحَمَّام، هَرَعَتْ عَلَى أَثَرِهِ لِٱسْتِكْشَافِ ٱلْأَمْر.. وَقَامَتْ بِٱقْتِحَام ٱلْحَمَّام لِتُفَاجَأَ بِنَجْلِهَا جُثَّةً هَامِدَة عَلَى ٱلْأَرْض.
A young man from the city of Alexandria paid with his life as the price of his passionate [lit. violent] love of singing while showering/bathing. That was after spending too long under the running water to be electrocuted as a result of a defect in the electrical circuit of the boiler. The investigations of the office of the Prosecutor reported that the young man M. S. M from the city of Alexandria whose age was seventeen years old and who worked in the field of building/architecture had returned to his house after a hard days work. The young man insisted on showering/bathing despite the warning of his mother of damage to the electric boiler in their house and her saying to him that she had received a number of minor shocks because of a fault in its electric circuits. However the enthusiastic young man took no heed of the warnings of his mother and insisted on his position. The mother said in the investigations that she had heard the sound of a big crash in the bathroom and rushed as a result to investigate the matter... She broke into the bathroom to be shocked to find her son a lifeless corpse on the floor.
فِي كُلّ لَيْلَةٍ تَنْقُلُ ٱلشَّاشَات إِلَى ٱلْأُرْدُنِّيِّين مَشَاهِد ٱلثُّلُوج وَٱلْأَمْطَار اَلْمُتَهَاطِلَةَ بِغَزَارَة عَلَى دُوَل أُورُوبَّا. وَفِي كُلّ لَيْلَة، يَنْعَقِدُ ٱلرَّجَاء فِي ٱلْقُلُوب، أَنْ تَتَوَجَّه هٰذِهِ ٱلْمِيَاه شَرْقًا لِتَصِلَ إِلَى سَمَاء ٱلْأُرْدُنّ، اَلَّتِي اِسْتَقَرَّتْ عَلَى شَمْسٍ سَاطِعَة تَتَأَلَّق فِي زُرْقَةٍ رَائِقَة وَغَيْر مَأْلُوفَة فِي مَطَالِع ٱلشِّتَاء. وَشَيْئًا فَشَيْئًا، تَصَاعَدَ ٱلْخَوْف مِن ٱلْقُلُوب، فَهَجَسَتْ بِهِ ٱلْحَنَاجِر. وَعَلا صَوْت ٱلْحَدِيث عَن ٱلْمَخَاوِف مِن ٱلْجَفَاف، فِي بَلَدٍ يَعْتَمِدُ كُلِّيًّا عَلَى ٱلْأَمْطَار، مَعَ مَا يُرَافِق ذٰلِكَ مِن إِضْرَار بِٱلْمَزْرُوعَات وَٱنْتِشَارٍ لِلْأَمْرَاض، إِضَافَةً إِلَى نَقْص مِيَاه ٱلشُّرْب فِي أَحَد أَكْثَر ٱلْبُلْدَان فَقْرًا فِي مَصَادِر ٱلْمِيَاه.
Every night the screens transmit to Jordanians scenes of the snow and rain falling heavily on the countries of Europe. And every night hope forms [lit. coalesces] in hearts that this water might head east to reach the sky of Jordan which has settled on a shining sun beaming in a clear blueness unfamiliar at the beginning of winter. Bit by bit fear rose in the hearts and throats muttered about it. Then the sound of talk rang out about fears of a drought (in a country which relies totally on rain) along with what accompanies it in terms of damage to crops and the spread of disease in addition to the lack of drinking water in one of the poorest of countries in terms of water resources.
إِذَا مَرَرتَ بِبَلْدَةِ جَزِّين اَلْمُلَقَّبَة بـِ«عَرُوس ٱلْجَنُوب» لا بُدَّ أَنْ تَسْتَوْقِفَكَ وَاجِهَات ٱلْمَحَلَّات ٱلتِّجَارِيَّة اَلْمُخْتَصَّة فِي بَيْع ٱلْهَدَايَا ٱلْجَزِّينِيَّة اَلْمُؤَلَّفَة مِن مَلاعِق وَسَكَاكِين وَشَوْك فِضِّيَّة ذَات ٱلْمِقْبَض ٱلْعَاجِيّ وَٱلْمُرَصَّع بِٱلذَّهَب ٱلْخَالِص أَحْيَانًا وَٱلَّتِي تُرَافِق ٱلْمَوَائِد ٱلْفَاخِرَة. وَتُعْتَبَر هٰذِهِ ٱلصِّنَاعَة مَوْرِد رِزْق لِنِصْف أَهَالِي ٱلْبَلْدَة اَلَّذِينَ لا يَزِيد عَدَدُهُم عَلَى أَرْبَعِين أَلْف شَخْص مُوَزَّعِين عَلَى مِسَاحَةٍ لا تَتَجَاوَز أَلْفَيْن وَعِشْرِين هِكْتَارًا. وَيَتَنَافَس مُحْتَرِفُو هٰذِهِ ٱلْحِرْفَة ٱلْيَوْمِيَّة فِي اِبْتِكَار ٱلْأَشْكَال وَٱلرُّسُوم وَٱلزَّخْرَفَة اَلَّتِي تُزَيِّن ٱلْقَبَضَات اَلْمَصْنُوعَة بَعْض ٱلْأَحْيَان مِن قُرُون ٱلْحَيَوَانَات أَوْ عِظَامِهَا وَتَأْخُذ شَكْل طَاوُوس أَوْ عُصْفُور أَوْ سَمَكَة أَوْ إِوَزَّة، وَغَيْرَهَا وَتُصْبَغ بِأَلْوَانٍ مُخْتَلِفَة كَٱلْأَزْرَق أَوْ ٱلنَّبِيذِيّ أَوْ ٱلذَّهَبِيّ وَغَيْرَهَا لِتَتَلاءَم مَعَ مُخْتَلِف ٱلْأَطْبَاق ٱلْمُقَدَّمَة عَلَى ٱلْمَوَائِد.
If you pass by the town of Jezzine dubbed the Bride of the South then for sure you will be stopped by the windows [lit. facades] of the shops specialized in the selling of Jezzine gifts which comprise silver spoons knives and forks with an ivory handle and inlaid with pure gold sometimes which accompany fine/luxurious table settings. This industry is considered the source of income/livelihood for half the inhabitants of the town whose number does not exceed forty thousand people distributed over an area of no more than two thousand and twenty hectares. The professionals of this daily trade compete in creating/inventing the shapes and drawings and decoration which adorn the handles made sometimes from the horns of animals or their bones and they take the shape of a peacock or [small] bird or fish or goose and other [creatures] and are colored/stained with different colors such as blue or burgundy [lit. wine] or gold and other [colors] to match the different plates/dishes set out on the tables.
أَعْلَنَ ٱلرَّئِيس ٱلسُّودَانِيّ عُمَر حَسَن اَلْبَشِير أَمْس تَعْزِيز تَطْبِيق ٱلشَّرِيعَة ٱلْإِسْلامِيَّة فِي ٱلْبِلاد لِتُصْبِحَ «ٱلْمَصْدَر ٱلرَّئِيسِيّ» لِلدُّسْتُور ٱلسُّودَانِيّ «إِذَا اِخْتَارَ ٱلْجَنُوب اَلْاِنْفِصَال»، فِي اِسْتِفْتَاء ٱلتَّاسِع مِن يَنَايِر (كَانُون ٱلثَّانِي) ٱلْمُقْبِل. وَقَالَ ٱلرَّئِيس ٱلسُّودَانِيّ فِي كَلِمَةٍ أَلْقَاهَا فِي مَدِينَةِ ٱلْقَضَارِف، شَرْق ٱلسُّودَان، «إِذَا اِخْتَارَ ٱلْجَنُوب اَلْاِنْفِصَال سَيُعَدَّل دُسْتُور ٱلسُّودَان، وَعِنْدَهَا لَنْ يَكُون هُنَاك مَجَال لِلْحَدِيث عَن تَنَوُّعٍ عِرْقِيّ وَثَقَافِيّ، وَسَيَكُون ٱلْإِسْلام هُوَ ٱلْمَصْدَر ٱلرَّئِيسِيّ لِلتَّشْرِيع». وَأَكَّدَ أَيْضًا أَنَّ «ٱللُّغَة ٱلرَّسْمِيَّة لِلدَّوْلَة سَتَكُون ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة». وَسَيَكُون عَلَى أَبْنَاء جَنُوب ٱلسُّودَان اَلْاِخْتِيَار بَيْنَ ٱلْبَقَاء فِي سُودَانٍ مُوَحَّد أَوْ ٱلْاِنْفِصَال، فِي اِسْتِفْتَاءٍ يُنَظَّم فِي ٱلتَّاسِع مِن يَنَايِر اَلْمُقْبِل. وَكَانَ هٰذَا ٱلْاِسْتِفْتَاء اَلْبَنْد ٱلرَّئِيسِيّ فِي اِتِّفَاق ٱلسَّلام اَلَّذِي وَضَعَ، فِي نِهَايَةِ أَلْفَيْن وَخَمْسَة، حَدًّا لِأَكْثَر مِن عَقْدَيْن مِن حَرْبٍ أَهْلِيَّة دَامِيَّة بَيْنَ ٱلشَّمَال وَٱلْجَنُوب.
The Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir announced yesterday the consolidating [lit. strengthening] of the implementation of Islamic Sharia law in the country for it to become the main source of the Sudanese constitution if the South chooses to separate in the referendum of the ninth of this coming January (Kanun Ith~thaanii). The Sudanese President said in a speech he gave in the town of Qadarif in the east of Sudan: If the South chooses to separate the constitution of Sudan will be amended and then there will be no place/scope/room for talking about ethnic/racial and cultural diversity and it will be Islam that is the main source of legislation. He also confirmed that the official language of the state will be Arabic. It will be up to the inhabitants of the South of Sudan to choose between staying in a unified Sudan or separating in a referendum organized for this coming ninth of January. This referendum was the main article in the peace agreement which at the end of 2005 put an end to more than two decades of bloody civil war between the North and South.
بَعْدَ ثَلاثِين عَامًا مِن تَطْبِيقِهِ تَعَرَّضَ خِلالَهَا لِلْعَدِيد مِن ٱلْاِنْتِقَادَات فِي سُوق ٱلْعَمَل، أَلْغَتْ ٱلْإِمَارَاتُ ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة ٱلْمُتَّحِدَة نِظَام نَقْل ٱلْكَفَالَة اَلَّذِي كَانَ يَحْظُر عَلَى ٱلْعَامِل فِي ٱلْقِطَاع ٱلْخَاصّ اَلْاِنْتِقَال مِن شَرِكَةٍ إِلَى أُخْرَى مِن دُون ٱلْحُصُول عَلَى مُوَافَقَةِ صَاحِب ٱلْعَمَل ٱلْأَصْلِيّ، فِيمَا يَرَاهُ ٱلْبَعْض مُقَدِّمَة لِإِلْغَاء نِظَام ٱلْكَفِيل بِشَكْلٍ كَامِل فِي دَوْلَةِ ٱلْإِمَارَات عَلَى غِرَار مَا فَعَلَتْهُ ٱلْبَحْرَيْن اَلَّتِي أَلْغَتْ نِظَام ٱلْكَفِيل لِلْعَمَالَة ٱلْوَافِدَة. وَأَوْجَبَ ٱلْقَرَار مَنْح ٱلتَّصْرِيح ٱلْجَدِيد لِلْعَامِل بَعْدَ اِنْتِهَاء عَلاقَةِ عَمَلِهِ مَعَ صَاحِب ٱلْعَمَل لِلْاِنْتِقَال مِن مُنْشَأَةٍ لِأُخْرَى دُون ٱلتَّقَيُّد بِمُدَّةِ «ٱلْأَشْهُر ٱلسِّتَّة» اَلَّتِي تُحْسَب مِن تَارِيخ إِلْغَاء بِطَاقَةِ ٱلْعَمَل. وَقَالَ صَقْر غُبَاش وَزِير ٱلْعَمَل ٱلْإِمَارَاتِيّ: «إِنَّ ٱلْإِجْرَاءَات ٱلْجَدِيدَة اِسْتَنَدَتْ فِي مُجْمَلِهَا إِلَى ٱلسَّعْي نَحْوَ إِيْجَاد ٱلْمَزِيد مِن ٱلْمُرُونَة فِي سُوق ٱلْعَمَل وَٱلتَّوَازُن فِي ٱلْعَلاقَة ٱلتَّعَاقُدِيَّة بَيْنَ صَاحِب ٱلْعَمَل وَٱلْعَامِل».
After thirty years since its implementation during which it was subjected to a great number of criticisms in the labor market the United Arab Emirates has abolished the system of transfer of sponsorship which prohibited the worker in the private sector from moving from one company to another without obtaining the agreement/consent of the original employer while some see it as a prelude to abolishing the sponsor system entirely in the state of the Emirates in the same way as was done by Bahrain which abolished the sponsor system for the foreign workforce. The resolution makes it obligatory to grant the new permit to the employee after ending his working relationship with the employer to move from one establishment to another without adhering to the period of six months which was calculated from the date of cancelling the work card. Saqr Ghobash the Emirati Minister of Labor said: The new measures are based entirely on working/striving towards creating more flexibility in the labor market and a balance in the contractual relationship between the employer and employee.
تَحَلَّقَ ٱلْأَطْفَال حَوْلَ مَا كَان حَتَّى قَبْلَ لَحَظَاتٍ مَلاذَهُم ٱلْآمِن، وَحَاضِن ذِكْرَيَاتِهِم، وَمَوْقِع سَعَادَتِهِم، وَصِلَة تَوَاصُلِهِم مَعَ ٱلْآبَاء وَٱلْأَجْدَاد، لِيَرَوا بِأَعْيُنِهِم ٱلْبَرِيئَة كُلّ لَبِنَة مِن لَبِنَات مَنْزِلِهِم اَلَّتِي جُلِبَتْ بِعَرَق ٱلْأَهْل، تَتَحَوَّل إِلَى رُكَام، وَٱلرَّأْس ٱلْمَعْدِنِيّ ٱلْمُدَبَّب اَلْبَارِز مِن ٱلْبُلْدُوزَر ٱلْأَمِيرِكِيّ اَلصُّنْع يَنْتَقِلُ بِهَمَجِيَّتِهِ ٱلْمُدَمِّرَة مِن حَائِط مَنْزِلِهِم إِلَى آخَر، وَهُوَ يُهَدِّم، وَيُحَطِّم، وَيُدَمِّر، إِلَى أَنْ تَرَنَّحَ سَقْف مَنْزِلِهِم، وَتَابَعَ ٱلْجُنْدِيّ ٱلْإِسْرَائِيلِيّ اَلَّذِي يَقُود ٱلْبُلْدُوزَر ضَرَبَاتَهُ ٱلْوَحْشِيَّة بِٱلْبُلْدُوزَر، حَتَّى سَقَط ٱلسَّقْف فَوْقَ ٱلرُّكَام، فَصَرَخَ ٱلْأَطْفَال بَاكِين مِن هٰذِهِ ٱلْوَحْشِيَّة ٱلْمُفْرِطَة «وَيْن نَرُوح، وَيْن نَنَام»، وَرَكَضُوا يُحَاوِلُون إِنْقَاذ دَفَاتِرِهِم، وَكُتُبِهِم، وَأَلْعَابِهِم، وَٱلدُّمُوع ٱلْغَزِيرَة تَسْقِي حُطَام مَنْزِلِهِم ٱلْمَنْكُوب بِٱلْوَحْشِيَّة ٱلْإِسْرَائِيلِيَّة ٱلْمَعْهُودَة اَلنَّازِلَة قَتْلًا، وَتَعْذِيبًا، وَتَدْمِيرًا بِٱلْمَدَنِيِّين ٱلْفِلَسْطِينِيِّين مُنْذُ أَكْثَر مِن سِتِّين عَامًا.
The children gathered in a circle around what was until moments before their safe haven the incubator of their memories the place of their happiness and their connecting link with parents and grandparents/forebears to see with their innocent eyes every [unburnt] brick of the bricks of their house which were obtained by the sweat of the family turn into rubble [as] the prominent pointed metal tip of the American-made bulldozer moved with its destructive savagery from one wall of their house to another and it demolished wrecked and destroyed until the roof of their house swayed/shook and the Israeli soldier who was driving the bulldozer continued his brutal strikes with the bulldozer until the roof fell onto the rubble and the children screamed crying at this excessive barbarism Where will we go? Where will we sleep? They ran trying to save their exercise books reading books and games as the copious tears watered the debris of their house [which was] stricken by the catastrophe of the familiar Israeli barbarism which has brought down killing punishment and destruction onto Palestinian civilians for more than sixty years.
أَثَارَتْ فَتْوَى ٱلدُّكْتُور عَلِيّ جُمْعَة، مُفْتِي ٱلدِّيَار ٱلْمِصْرِيَّة، بِجَوَاز اِسْتِخْدَام صِمَام ٱلْقَلْب اَلْمَأْخُوذ مِن ٱلْخِنْزِير فِي عَمَلِيَّات ٱلْقَلْب ٱلْمَفْتُوح جَدَلًا وَاسِعًا بَيْنَ عُلَمَاء ٱلْأَزْهَر، فَٱلْبَعْض ٱعْتَبَر أَنَّ نَقْل قَلْب ٱلْخِنْزِير إِلَى ٱلْإِنْسَان غَيْر جَائِز، مُسْتَنِدِين إِلَى أَنَّ جُمْهُور ٱلْعُلَمَاء أَجْمَعُوا عَلَى نَجَاسَةِ ٱلْخِنْزِير، وَأَنَّهُ يَحْرُم لُعَابُهُ وَمُخَاطُهُ وَعَرَقُهُ وَدَمُه، وَمَا يُؤْخَذُ مِن قَلْبِه أَوْ مِن عُرُوقِهِ أَوْ مِن أَعْضَائِه. فِيمَا أَيَّدَ ٱلْبَعْض ٱلْآخَر فَتْوَى د. جُمْعَة، مُسْتَنِدِين إِلَى ٱلْمَبْدَأ ٱلْفِقْهِيّ اَلضَّرُورَات تُبِيحُ ٱلْمَحْظُورَات، وَٱتَّفَقُوا عَلَى أَنَّ ٱلتَّدَاوِي فِي هٰذِهِ ٱلْحَالَة يَكُون بِمَنْزِلَةِ ٱلضَّرُورَة، فَيُبَاحُ فِيه تَنَاوُل ٱلْأَمْر ٱلْمُحَرَّم، وَذٰلِكَ بِنَاءً عَلَى مَا ذَهَبَ إِلَيه بَعْض ٱلْحَنَفِيَّة وَقَطَعَ بِهِ جُمْهُور ٱلشَّافِعِيَّة.
The fatwa [=formal legal opinion (Isl. law)] of Dr. Ali Gomaa [Grand] Mufti of Egypt [lit. Egyptian lands/localities] allowing the use of the heart valve taken from a pig in open-heart operations caused heated [lit. widespread] discussion among the `ulema [lit. scholars] of al-Azhar as some considered that the transferring of the heart of a pig to a human is not lawful/permitted relying [for this opinion] on the fact that all [lit. multitude] the `ulema were unanimously agreed on the uncleanliness of the pig and that its saliva nasal mucous sweat and blood and what is taken from its heart or from its veins or from its organs are [all] forbidden. Whereas some others supported the fatwa of Dr. Gomaa relying [for this opinion] on the jurisprudential principle of necessities permitting forbidden things. They agreed on the fact that treatment/medication in this case is of the standing/rank of necessity so in [this treatment] it is permissible to receive the forbidden. This is based on what some of the Hanafi [school of Islamic law] believe and what is stated with certainty by all the Shafii [school of Islamic law].
تَسَبَّبَتْ إِحْدَى عَرَبَات ٱلتّْرَام بِمَدِينَةِ ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّة، صَبَاح أَمْس، فِي إِثَارَةِ ذُعْر ٱلْمُوَاطِنِين بَعْدَ أَنْ فُوجِئُوا بِعَدَم تَوَقُّفِهَا بِٱلْمَحَطَّة اَلْمُخَصَّصَة لِلرُّكَّاب وَتَخَطِّيهَا لِتَقَاطُع ٱلطَّرِيق بِسُرْعَةٍ كَبِيرَة فِي مِنْطَقَةٍ تَشْهَدُ كَثَافَة مُرُورِيَّة عَالِيَة، مِمَّا أَسْفَرَ عَن اِصْطِدَامِهَا بِعَدَدٍ مِن ٱلسَّيَّارَات وَأَدَّى إِلَى حُدُوث شَلَلٍ تَامّ بِحَرَكَةِ ٱلسَّيْر فِي وَسَط ٱلْمَدِينَة لِأَكْثَر مِن سَاعَتَيْن. وَتَبَيَّنَ لِرِجَال ٱلْأَمْن أَنَّ قَائِد ٱلتّْرَام كَانَ يَسِيرُ بِسُرْعَةٍ كَبِيرَة لَمْ تُمَكِّنُهُ مِن ٱلسَّيْطَرَةِ عَلَى مَكَابِح ٱلْقَاطِرَة، مِمَّا أَدَّى إِلَى عَدَم ٱلتَّوَقُّف بِٱلْمَكَان ٱلْمُخَصَّص فِي ٱلْمَحَطَّة، وَٱجْتَازَ تَقَاطُع ٱلطَّرِيق فِي وَقْتٍ كَانَتْ أَحَقِّيَّةُ ٱلْمُرُور لِلسَّيَّارَات ٱلْقَادِمَة مِن ٱلطَّرِيق ٱلْمُتَعَامِد، لِيَصْطَدِمَ بِخَمْس سَيَّارَاتٍ مِنهَا وَيَتَسَبَّب فِي تَلَفِيَّاتٍ كَبِيرَةٍ بِهَا.
One of the tramcars in the city of Alexandria was the cause yesterday morning behind the stirring up of the panic of the citizens after they were surprised by its not stopping at the designated passenger stop and its crossing a road intersection at great speed in an area which sees high traffic density which resulted in its colliding with a number of cars and led to the occurrence of the total paralysis of the movement of traffic in the center of the city for more than two hours. It became clear to the police [lit. security men] that the driver of the tram was moving at great speed which did not allow him to have control over the brakes of the streetcar/locomotive which led to [his] not stopping in the designated place in the station/stop and he went through a road intersection at a time when the priority of movement was for cars coming from the perpendicular road for him to collide with five of these cars causing great damage to them.