{"id":41475,"date":"2025-10-24T14:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=41475"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:43:28","slug":"the-wedding-of-words-in-the-presence-of-justice-and-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=41475","title":{"rendered":"The Wedding of Words&#8230; In the Presence of Justice and Light\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Poetry: Ashraf AboArafe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">O land where dark-hued words are born and bloom,<br \/>\nOnce torn by winds of sorrow and of time \u2014<br \/>\nNow <strong>Tripoli<\/strong>, awakened, smiles again,<br \/>\nHer heart aglow with beauty and reborn flame.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Within the <strong>Book Fair\u2019s<\/strong> halls, pure voices rise,<br \/>\nTheir songs of learning soar above the years;<br \/>\nNo prison binds the mind that dreams of dawn,<br \/>\nNo law restrains the soul that seeks the truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then came <strong>Al-Siddiq Al-Sour<\/strong>, the steadfast man,<br \/>\nBearing the torch of justice \u2014 calm, humane;<br \/>\nHe built from letters palaces of light,<br \/>\nAnd from the ink, foundations of a nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book itself spoke softly to his soul:<br \/>\n\u201cYou are our life, our wisdom, and our peace;<br \/>\nBy you the minds are lit, the earth assured \u2014<br \/>\nFor justice breathes when guided by the pen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>Public Prosecution<\/strong> rose in grace,<br \/>\nA citadel of intellect and law;<br \/>\nIt walked toward dawn unbowed, unafraid,<br \/>\nWhere art and fairness met in unity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No east, no west \u2014 no borders of the heart,<br \/>\nFor culture\u2019s gentle hand erased the rifts;<br \/>\nAnd Libya, beneath one sun, declared:<br \/>\n\u201cOur words unite us, though the years have split.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each corner sang the breath of those who dream,<br \/>\nEach page a mirror of the brighter self;<br \/>\nAnd in the air, a fragrance like the moon,<br \/>\nA vision clothed in silk of peace and art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>Center for Research and Training<\/strong> stood tall,<br \/>\nAn arm of knowledge, builder of tomorrow;<br \/>\nNo envy halts its march, no shadow dims<br \/>\nThe light it spreads across the nation\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">O Libya \u2014 beloved, proud, and pure,<br \/>\nYou rise by letters, not by blood or war;<br \/>\nO oasis of the Arab soul and flame,<br \/>\nYou dwell within our hearts \u2014 and never fade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry: Ashraf AboArafe O land where dark-hued words are born and bloom, Once torn by winds of sorrow and of time \u2014 Now Tripoli, awakened, smiles again, Her heart aglow with beauty and reborn flame. Within the Book Fair\u2019s halls, pure voices rise, Their songs of learning soar above the years; No prison binds the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,388],"tags":[21501,22176,22177,22175,6214],"class_list":["post-41475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chief-editor","category-slide","tag-and-light","tag-in-the-presence","tag-of-justice","tag-the-wedding-of","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41477,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475\/revisions\/41477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}