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Love also has rules of sovereignty

Published: 21 Feb 2013 - 06:09 am | Last Updated: 04 Feb 2022 - 11:18 am

Love is like a homeland that does not accept either partition or disunion; it does not accept the concepts of international politics to be applied to it. It wants to remain unified and strong against assailants and enemies. 

Love is totally against internal and external divisions. It will do whatever it takes to prevent the separation of the heart and body. It will fight tooth and nail to prevent the dissociation of body and soul. It will launch a battle against all attempts to separate heart and mind.

I ask for a carte blanche from history, which records the details of the establishment of mighty empires and nations. I ask for acquiescence from history, which has denounced from its dawn aggressions against the sanctity of lands at the time of major conquests, invasions and geographical exploration. 

People of those invaded lands still reel from the partition of their territory. They still cry because of the occupation of their lands and the destruction of their rights. The condition of these people is little better than that of species that are dying out, although they are human beings who should be enjoying all their rights. 

I ask for allowance from the free lands that go up against whoever thinks of violating them or taking parts of them out. I seek the stamp of approval from these lands, which cross swords with all forms of manipulation and occupation. 

I strive for empowerment from political science and international relations, which have their roots in history, which has also laid the cornerstone of diplomacy. It erected the pillars of all the countries in the world and taught the citizens of these countries to fight against whoever tried to lay his hands on their land. 

I seek canonization from geography, which managed to spread its wings everywhere, but opened the way for the elements to be divided by boundaries. 

I want to get concurrence from geography, which allowed these elements to have their own different traditions, agreements, and conventions that seek to keep violators at bay. I ask for authorization to speak from geography, which created international institutions and organisations to protect them, giving them names such as United Nations, Security Council and international court. 

In their bid to give us comfort and hope, these elements gave other organisations inspiring names with words such as justice and amnesty, before they called others criminal, even as these organisations took sides with some countries against other countries and allowed the division of some countries but opposed the partition of others. 

This is the blanket theory history has imposed on whoever thinks of committing violations or aggressions. This is the old and general rule which history, geography and geopolitics have imposed on human geology and the science of the souls. 

By the science of the souls, I do not mean witchcraft, for I am totally against witchcraft. I rather mean this beautiful and transparent science of human souls. It is the kind of science that allows souls to meet in a world full of love, cleanliness and wholeness. It is a world that criminalises partitioning. 

The rules and theories that apply to lands can apply to human beings as well. These rules and theories also apply to everything made by humans that has the smell or touch of their souls.  

The rules and the theories of politics and diplomacy were created after years of hard work by humans, often involving hardships and bloody wars that claimed the lives of a limitless number of innocent people who were out to fight to protect their borders against aggressors and violators. 

In all these cases, international laws and conventions did not help. These laws and conventions could not deter aggressors and violators against killing the innocent and violating the sanctity of their land.

The rules of sovereignty in international politics are identical to the rules of sovereignty in love. They are similar to the rules of sovereignty applied by bodies and souls. Bodies are like lands that cannot be split up. They are like lands that cannot reconcile themselves with aggression or aggressors. 

Bodies are like lands that cannot allow aggressors to take away some parts of them; they cannot allow the separation of their upper parts from their lower parts. They will not be divided into minor states or open the way for internal wars or divisions in them like the Sykes Picot Agreement did to countries.  

Bodies will not give the mind freedom to love whoever it likes, or its selfish desires to have favourite beings. They will not allow their instincts to have the upper hand in choosing who should be close and who should be kept away. 

Dignified lands must remain united and whole. They are like love, which does not allow division to happen. It only wants to be dignified and whole. 

Bias in love can never succeed in breaking the body into parts, regardless of whether a long, brutal war is waged to this end.

In doing this, love acts like the love of a courageous fighter who never forgets the principles of lands and national unity, which underline the need for dignity and wholeness. It seeks to bring everybody separated from the homeland and displaced this homeland to the Promised Land, a land that is detested by all the rules of international politics. 

Enjoy love and the people who harbour it. In this love there is no difference between crimes and criminals. It knows for sure that there is no difference between a criminal of war  and a criminal of love.