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Dr. Hossam Badrawi’s article in Al-Masry Al-Youm
Entitled “The Physiology of the Homeland…Between Man and the City”
The deeper we get to know the human body, its anatomy, and its physiology, we will find that the greatness of God in His creation is the basis of our life philosophy, which we think is material in the course of its day, including movement, eating, drinking, roads, transportation, law, police, army, government, and people. The creation and composition of the human body is the basis of engineering, dynamics, physics, chemistry, and other positive sciences in which humans excel. Come with me on a journey inside man, and compare it with the city in which we live.
Human life is based on his ability to breathe and inhale oxygen through his lungs to reach every cell in him in order to live. A simple truth taught by the illiterate, the educated, the doctor and the murderer who, if he wanted to end a person’s life, strangled him and denied him fresh air despite his ignorance of physiology.
Oxygen reaches every cell carried in the blood inside the small and large blood vessels, in an integrated network that reaches the organs and their cells, so that each of them performs its work.
If any of these blood vessels becomes clogged, depending on its location, this may lead to the amputation of one of the limbs, but if it becomes clogged in an important organ such as the heart or brain, it may lead to death.
What is the city’s lung?.. Its lung is in its gardens and vegetables.. Gardens must be commensurate with the number of residents in the neighborhood and the city. If the city’s lungs did not exist, it would suffocate as a person suffocates if his lungs shrink or his body refrains from inhaling oxygen.
And what about the human circulatory system, its arteries and veins, which are similar in the architecture of the city, its roads and transportation, which transport food to every place in the body?!.
And as in man, the great arteries branch off, and in the city the high roads are similar to them, into secondary roads and branches from the branches.. Thus, in a building that has logic that allows the smooth movement of blood and what it carries without stopping.. If the arteries are blocked, the person will get sick, and he may die. And if it narrowed with clots and cholesterol on both sides, the movement froze and the smoothness and swelling of the body stopped. In anatomy, we know exactly where every artery goes and where it branches, and in modern cities as well, if they do not have a clear network of roads that allow smooth movement, which is not blocked by obstacles or permanent ambushes, then the city may get sick and may die.
The human body receives food from its digestive system, from which it absorbs whatever it wants, and waste comes out of it as urine, feces, and sweat. A note that has applications and means to get rid of it or recycle it. If it is not accounted for, the city will fall and become ill.
And just as the human body excretes its waste regularly, otherwise it fails and dies, urine fluid comes out of its urinary system, which if it is not drained from the kidneys, then it stops working and poisons the body, and likewise in the city it must have a device for delivering water and excreting liquid waste, which is what the drainage devices represent. Sanitary system, which is considered one of the most important devices in the city to ensure its life to live.
If the human body is attacked by germs or viruses, the anti-damage system represented by the immune and control systems works and sends its tools to reach the place of penetration of the body, and the temperature rises, because the body is in a battle that ends with victims of white blood cells and others that have been entered to fight the intruders, or to block a place Blood leaks, and the body comes with someone who rebuilds the part that was damaged.. Isn’t that similar to the country’s government and the police and defense apparatus in the homeland?!.
The body recognizes and judges the type of damage by sensors that send messages to the nervous system to trigger the body’s defenses in a timely manner with identification devices that identify who is out of order and does not correspond to his physiology and existence, to stop the chaos.
The mind, sensors, means of immunity and construction are the government of the city and its service institutions that derive their strength, as in the human being, from their knowledge that strengthens them to remain coherent and correct in order to renew and transcend their members.
Sometimes, a person does not contract the disease from outside, but the cells begin to act selfishly and madly, and eat those around them to survive, and infect the rest of the organs with malfunctions such as cancer, and here the body may not be able to; Especially if its organs are weak and its immunity is eroded. He can only win this battle by completely eradicating the cancer’s body and its surroundings and whoever feeds it, otherwise it will return again and finish off the rest of the body and end it.
What does that remind you of back home?! I leave that to your imagination, because sometimes we live it in different forms in every period of the life of the country.
The human body is a creation of God, and if a society wants to live in a village, city, or homeland, it must know its anatomy and physiology, and know that the greatest harm may occur from the least evil.
How many times have we seen a person lose his life, due to a stroke in his brain, bleeding, or an explosion in an artery! And how much the quality of life has been eroded due to the cessation of kidney or liver function! And how much cancer spent on bodies and homelands!. How many bodies collapsed and suffocated due to the lack of oxygen from its lungs reaching every cell in it, or even just because it was unable to get rid of its waste and output!
Let’s look at the human body and our lives and take a lesson.
The homeland must have a maestro who knows what is going on, coordinates and harmonizes with the vocabulary of its needs in balance, and protects its cells from destruction – internally or externally – with the continuation of construction and renewal. The mind of the nation and its nervous system is its government and its protection and order organs that must be carefully chosen, and their efficiency should always be judged and renewed based on criteria that we can identify through periodic examination and the use of modern technology for diagnosis and treatment.
We as individuals represent the cells of the body, and our health is the basis for the health of the whole body, and our country is our body and we are its cells. In order for the body to be healthy, we must be healthy.. In order for us to live, grow and reproduce, the homeland must be healthy and complete. We do not underestimate any of the functions of the body of the nation, no matter how trivial or small it may seem, and we respect its existence. If an organ is harmed, we must protect it and take care of it.
Can the nervous system replace the digestive system? Is the urinary system fit to defend another organ from a viral or bacterial attack? Everyone has its functions that it must perform, and if a device is forced on the rest of the devices, then whatever its efficiency, it harms itself and the whole body and its existence has no value without the presence of the rest of the members. In order for a person to be healthy and healthy, the supply must reach him sustainably, his cells are renewed, and his harmful outputs do not accumulate, and he deals with them with knowledge and intelligence, as God showed us in the creativity of creating the human body.
The beauty is that God gave us the mind to think and accumulate experiences and benefit from them, and without reason, thinking and freedom of expression we lose our humanity. In the life of the country, learning from previous experiences is vital so that the country does not fall into crises by repeating the same actions while waiting for different results.
How can we preserve the nation’s body healthy, healthy, and its cells and tissues renewed, except by coordinating its functions and making better use of its organs and the health of its mind and nervous system represented by its government? The path to the nation’s recovery is primarily political, and our national dialogue is a dialogue to renew and sustain this mind and its organs.
Dialogue will not succeed without acknowledging that each organ and institution has a specific function, which it performs for the benefit of the rest of the body, and that no single organ of the body, regardless of its importance and efficiency, can perform and control all other functions of the body; Because he will lose his ability to play the role assigned to him, and he will not achieve the health of the body in breathing, digestion, excretion, invoking immunity, regeneration and development, with arguments that have been proven throughout the health history of nations to be unsustainable.
The mind and conscience of the nation will not work without successful justice (the main challenge here) and sustainable human development (the second challenge), which makes the cells of the body and the individuals of the nation capable of making the right choice between alternatives to science, continuing learning and increasing knowledge in light of renewed governments, and a rotation of power that allows for positive accountability And building on the achievement, and identifying the capabilities of the country and using them optimally with the coordination of reason and the efficiency of the performance of its members.
