Revolution, conquest, victory in Syria: the world is no longer the old world

To witness the moment of the fulfillment of God's promise. This is, for me, the most fitting expression of what has been lived, from the beginning of a Revolution process that lasted 12 days to the point it has reached. That God grants the believers a manifest conquest, forgives their past and future sins, completes His favor upon them, guides them to the straight path and crowns them with a mighty victory is His promise and His way. The Syrian mujahideen resolved to bring down a regime that for 61 years had been the perpetrator of the most tyrannical and most inhuman crimes recorded by history; they trusted in God, and they also held very well to the means, and they toppled it.

The regime that, for the sake of its own arrogant, rampant power, massacred its own people in the most merciless way, let them rot in dungeons, and subdued all the remaining people by applying the most oppressive and humiliating methods, has taken its place in history like the pharaohs, the Nimrods and the savage barbarian invaders. For the people who lived the last 61 years in all their horror, those times were lived as though they would never end. The ultimate aim of tyranny is for the subjects to submit to this insurmountable tyranny and to give up their person, their property, their life, their honor. With the dungeons it built, with its massacres and its mechanisms of torture, it tried to make people live hell on earth. A claim to divinity, a claim to absolute sovereignty, a dictatorial rampancy always imagines that a hell too is in its own hands. Tortures, massacres, policies of oppression and intimidation are therefore, to some extent, an expression of that arrogance, that rampancy. What kind of habits of atmosphere did the 61 years in which those events took place give people? An atmosphere that would never change, an order that would never end, an energy of oppression that would never be exhausted.

Yet when God's conquest is made easy, in such a short time the whole climate, the whole atmosphere, all the air suddenly changes. The air that changed first with the liberation of Aleppo, then after each city fell one by one, turned into something entirely different with the overthrow of Assad. The sun that had not come out for years suddenly came out, and everything became bright. The bewilderment of people forgotten in prison for 42 years when they were freed from prison is only one of the effects of this changed air. All the analyses made until yesterday about international relations, all the words of those who prattle about balances of power and know no other way than reading the world in accordance with the power impositions to which it has been accustomed, were proven vain.

A very clear, distinct and very different picture has emerged. All the balances regarding the Middle East, even the world, until yesterday took on an entirely different form at the end of 12 days. Until just 12 days ago, whenever anything about Syria was brought up, the most optimistic scenario we could consider was that it would be divided into at least three. As of yesterday, for the first time, a Syria with its territorial integrity preserved ceased to be a possibility and turned into a reality that imposes itself. After the fall of Damascus too, the way was opened for Latakia and Tartus, previously predicted to be a separate administrative region, and for Manbij, Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor under JPG-US control, to join the union quickly. No force will be able to stand in the way of the open conquest that has emerged in Damascus gradually turning into a unity and solidarity covering all of Syria. Just as the US will find no pretext to stay here, it will also find no interlocutor to whom it could pass off its flimsy pretexts as it has until now. All of these are the blessing of an open conquest.

The Syrian people suffered much. The mujahideen, the children of the Syrian people, also worked much, resolved, endured, put their trust in God, and at the end of so much hardship and so many trials God granted them a great victory. He trained them with the heavy trials He made them live through during all this time, made them firm like steel, and I believe prepared them for a very important mission. The model that this victorious people will put forth in Syria on the way to rebuilding their country will be an example to the history of revolutions of the whole world. In the people who have passed through this hardship, especially in the magnificent maturity, reason and nobility they displayed during the conquest, lies the most important essence necessary for building a civilization.

They made such a revolution that it was not only themselves they saved, to the benefit of themselves alone, the Syrian people. Just like the brave sons of Gaza, they instilled hope again in all humanity. They put forth, with all clarity, like a verse, the truth that oppression cannot endure forever, and that falsehood cannot forever make itself accepted in the guise of truth.

May their victory and their conquests be blessed. After this great victory they have reached, there is now a new world and new balances, and within these balances Turkey shines like a sun. The owner of the revolution is without doubt the Syrian people. They carried out such a revolution that they spontaneously exposed a ledger of who stands where and how with regard to this revolution. People will be evaluated according to their stance on this revolution, as stated in Surat al-Fath.

Turkey has stood by this Syrian people from the beginning. It supported them in their struggle to claim their own honor. The revolution of course did not take place within 12 days. Behind it there is a preparation process of more than 13 years, and in this process the greatest power on which the Syrian revolutionaries relied, besides God, has been Turkey. No one can ignore the Turkish mind in the technical and military preparation, the tactics and strategy contained in the last 12-day operation. This is a peak example of the usual attitude Turkey has shown in humanitarian matters. With Syria, which has achieved its liberation and changed the whole world, Turkey's star has shone even brighter.

Some will of course be saddened by this, as a continuation of their typical attitudes from the beginning. But even they will no longer be able to repeat their old set phrases. This plain success that has been lived will force them all to find a new language. And this will be no small consequence for them.