Egyptian 5th President , Mohamed Morsi
In the
name of God, the most compassionate, the most merciful. Thanks be to Allah,
prayers and peace be upon the messenger of Allah. Say: In the bounty of Allah
and in His mercy: therein let them rejoice. It is better than what they hoard
(Quranic verse). Egyptian people, you who today are rejoicing and celebrating
the feast of democracy in Egypt, you who are standing in squares, in the Tahrir
Square and in all the squares of Egypt, my beloved ones, my family and people,
my brethren and my sons, who are looking forward to the future, you who want
good, rebirth, development, stability, safety and security for our country of
Egypt. My beloved ones, I address you thanks to God Almighty. We all thank God
for reaching this historic moment, this moment which represents a landmark that
has been written with the hands and wills of the Egyptians, their blood, tears
and sacrifices, this moment, which we are all shaping with these sacrifices. I
would not have talked to you today as the first president elected by the
free will of Egyptians in the first presidential elections after the 25 January
revolution, I would not have been here today with you now amid this sweeping
joy, which is sweeping all corners of our beloved homeland, I would not have
been here but for God's help and these sacrifices, the precious blood of our
honourable martyrs and our great injured men.
Thanks
and salute to the martyrs, to the souls of martyrs, to the mothers and fathers
of martyrs, to my people who have lost their dear ones and sacrificed them for
the sake of Egypt. My supplications go to these martyrs and the injured people,
who watered the tree of freedom with their blood and paved the way for us to
reach this moment. I again repeat my appreciation and thanks to the families of
all of those who taught their children the meaning of martyrdom and true
patriotism and who showed patience for the loss of their dear ones as a price
for freedom, who showed patience for the loss of their dear ones as a price for
freedom (repetition).
I promise
them once again that this precious blood will not go in vain. Salute to the
great Egyptian people, the best soldiers on earth, to the Armed Forces, to all
its sons wherever they are, pure salutations from my heart to them and I bear
them love that nobody knows except for God Almighty. I love them and appreciate
their role and show keenness to strengthen them and keep them and this
prestigious organization [the army] that we all love and appreciate.
And for
the honourable policemen, the policemen who are my brothers and sons, some of
whom mistakenly believe that I might feel less appreciation for them and that
is wrong. Whoever commits a crime is punished according to the law. As for the
honest policemen, who are the majority of my brothers and sons among policemen
in Egypt, for those, I'm obliged to salute them because they have a big role to
play in the future to maintain safety and security inside the homeland. Due
salutations, too, to all Egyptian judges, who supervised all the elections
after the revolution and even to those who have not supervised the elections.
All judges in Egypt should be appreciated, respected and loved, and they are
the third authority that should always keep its head high, remain independent,
possess its own will and work separately from the executive power, and my
responsibility in the future is to make sure that judges truly and genuinely
work separately from the executive and legislative powers. I say to everyone,
to all categories of the Egyptian people, to my people in this witnessed day
that I'm today by your choice, by your own will, after thanks go to God
Almighty, today I am a president for all Egyptians, wherever they are, inside
and outside the country, in all governorates, cities, towns of Egypt, on its
eastern borders, western borders, southern borders and northern borders and in
the middle of the country.
Our vast
Egyptian lands, its generous people, my beloved people, the people of Nubia,
the people of Rafah, Arish, South Sinai, Mersa Matrouh, west Egypt, north Egypt
and Delta provinces, Port Sa'id, cities of the (Suez) Canal; Ismailiya and
Suez, Al-Sharqiyah, Al-Daqahliya, Kafr el-Shaykh, Al-Gharbiya, Al-Menoufiya,
Al-Qalubiya, Alexandria, the Oases, the Red Sea, South Sinai, southern Upper
Egypt; Bani Suef, Al-Fayoum, Al-Minya, Assiut, Suhaj, Qena, Luxor, Aswan, Nubia
once again and the Oases, all my people, all my Egyptian people, Muslims and
Christians alike, men and women, the old and the elderly and the young men,
mothers and fathers, peasants and workers, public servants, teachers,
university professors, businessmen, public servants, workers in the Public
Enterprise sector and the government departments and the private sector, those
who work in all state institutions, merchants, drivers, bus, trains, taxis,
tok-tok cars, they are all my people, those who have professions, owners of small
kiosks, owners of small shops, vendors selling goods on road pavements, the
elderly, the students who go to public and private schools, those who have
professions, everyone, I hope I don't ever forget anyone.
I address
you all on this remarkable day in which I was chosen, thanks to Allah and your
will, president for all Egyptians, and will stand at an equal distance from all
Egyptians, everyone has his own value and standing, nobody is dealt with
differently except on the basis of their giving to his country and the amount
of respect they show for the constitution and law.
Egyptian Revolution and the aftermath
I can
never forget the people who work in the diplomatic corps and the workers in the
General Intelligence Service and those who maintain the security of the
homeland against its enemies wherever they are. I cannot forget all of them.
Oh
Egyptian people, Egypt, this beloved Egypt which lives in our hearts, our
homeland which we all love, Egypt, which impressed the world with its
revolution and the sacrifices of its young men, which impressed the world with
the queues of its voters, with the keenness of its sons to stand in line in the
queues outside polling stations, whether during the constitutional referendum
held in March 2011, or in the People's Assembly elections in late 2011, or in
the Shura Council elections in early 2012, or in the presidential elections
which ended on 17 June, and whose results we celebrate today, and we respect
these results.
Egypt,
which impressed the world with the queues of its voters, needs now to close
ranks, unite the word, so that the patient, great Egyptian people can reap
the fruit of their sacrifices in a better life, achieve social justice, freedom
and human dignity, which are the basic slogans or the main goals that the
throats of the revolutionaries kept repeating in all Egyptian squares on the
25th of January 2011, and which revolutionaries still repeat loudly in all the
squares of the revolution, which is still continuing.
The
revolution will continue until all its objectives are achieved. Together, we
complete this march. The people have been patient, the Egyptian people have
been patient and since then suffered disease, hunger, injustice, oppression,
marginalization, the rigging of will and the rigging of elections. We used to
look around in the world and say: when will Egypt, the Egyptian people, be the
source of power? Today, you are the source of power as the world can see in
this epic, in this great system through which we would take Egypt to a better
future, god willing.
The
people have been patient and long suffered disease, hunger, injustice and
oppression, and it is time they restored their will, freedom and found a better
life without painstaking and found justice that does not differentiate between
an old and a young one or between an employee and an employer, because everyone
before the law is equal.
I, my
beloved ones the people of Egypt, who have trusted me and put on my shoulder
the responsibility, this heavy responsibility, say to all of you, I, thanks to
God, have been put in authority over you and I am not the best of you. I have
been put in authority over you and I am not the best of you (repetition). I
will do my best to fulfil the commitments and obligations I have undertaken
before all of you. Egypt is for all Egyptians, all of us are equals in terms of
rights. All of us also have duties towards this homeland. As for myself, I
don't have rights. I only have duties. I have no rights. Rather, I only have
duties. So, help me, my people. Help me as long as I do the right thing.
Help me as long as obey Allah in you. If I did not do that and did not commit
to what I have promised you before, then obedience to me is not incumbent upon
you. Obedience to me is not incumbent on you (repetition).I invite you, the
great Egyptian people, my people in this historic moment to strengthen our
national unity, to cement bonds amongst us, to strengthen our comprehensive
national unity. And hold fast, all of you together, to the cable of Allah, and
do not separate (Quranic verse).
We are all
Egyptians no matter what our viewpoints, we are all nationalists no matter what
our parties and trends. We are all faithful to the revolution and to the blood
of martyrs. There is no place for the language of collusion and there is no
place for accusing each other of treachery. This national unity is the way now
to get Egypt out of this difficult stage and to prepare for a comprehensive
project in which we are all involved; a comprehensive project for the real
rebirth of Egypt, real development, real capitalization of all our resources.
Our resources are massive. God's blessings are numerous. And if ye would count
the bounty of Allah ye cannot reckon it (Quranic verse). But as you all know,
these resources were plundered and misused. We are today about to run these
resources in a way that benefits us all, God willing.I invite you to prepare
for a comprehensive project of rebirth, for the Egyptian rebirth, with the
hands of all Egyptians. We Egyptians, Muslims and Christians, we Egyptians,
Muslims and Christians, are advocates of civilization and construction.
We have
always been like that and will remain so, God willing. We will face together
seditions and conspiracies that aim at our national unity and our social
coherence. As we have together made the great revolution of January 2011, we
insist that you impress the world once more with Egyptian renaissance, God
willing, that achieves dignity and stability, welfare, good life for every
free, dignified Egyptian in the land of Egypt.
I am
intent with your help to build a new Egypt, a national country, a
constitutional, democratic, modern country, and all my time will be dedicated
to this big project which is based on our identity and reference. I will work
hard with all of you to maintain Egypt's national security, with all its
dimensions, whether at Arab, African, regional or international levels. We will
maintain international charters and conventions.
We came
to the world with a message of peace. We will maintain international charters
and conventions and the commitments and agreements Egypt has signed with the
world. We will also work to make the Egyptian system of ethics, and its
civilizational identity, in addition to human values particularly in freedoms,
respect for human rights, maintaining rights of women and children and
abrogating all sorts of discrimination. We will establish, God willing,
balanced relations with all world powers, we will establish balanced relations
between us and other world countries based on common interests and mutual respect
and benefits to all sides.
We will
not allow ourselves to interfere in the internal affairs of any country in the
same way that we will not allow any interference in our affairs and hence
maintain our national sovereignty and the borders of the Egyptian state. Let
everybody knows that Egypt's decision is made inside it, by the will of
its sons, let everybody know that Egypt by our call for peace with all the
world is capable by its people, men, people, armed forces, great history, of
defending itself and preventing any aggression or thoughts of aggression
against it or against its sons in any part of this world.
You great
Egyptian people, my people and family, I realize the challenges facing us at
this stage but I'm sure that we with God's help and our cooperation and your
support would be able to cross this stage quickly so that Egypt can be strong
and leading to its nation, pioneering in its world. This is Egypt's destiny and
what is waiting it. This is Egypt's destiny and what is waiting it in the
future, God willing.
I
reiterate that while we all are celebrating and rejoicing with this great
democracy, with these elections, with the victory of the nation's will in the
way that you are celebrating now. I reiterate what I have said before that I will
not betray Allah in you, would not betray Allah in you and would not disobey
Him in my country.
I set
before my eyes God's saying: and guard yourselves against a day in which ye
will be brought back to Allah. Then every soul will be paid in full that which
it hath earned, and they will not be wronged. Repeat with me my beloved ones,
with our will, our unity, our love for each other, we can shape the decent
future for all of us. Some might not see that from outside the homeland or feel
it is difficult for us to achieve that out of sympathy for us or for other
reasons, however, we, God willing, can go ahead along this path to achieve a
better future.
Allah
guideth us all to the best of ways. My beloved ones, some see this, but we see
it together close, God willing. Tomorrow is very soon. And Allah was
predominant in His career, but most of mankind know not (Quranic verse). Peace
and God's blessings be upon you.
