The Dawn of Yemen... Only Those Who Endure Will Survive!

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Two days ago, the Yemeni government announced the start of a series of offensive operations named 'Fajr Yemen' and the President of the Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad Alimi, pledged to continue fighting 'until the country is liberated from the grip of the Houthi terrorist militia.'

The first step is the recovery of the city and port of Mokha, and Dhubab, and the control of Bab al-Mandab, among other Yemeni fronts.

You know the news, as it continues to bring good tidings, I was struck by a comment from the Saudi Minister of Defense, Prince Khalid bin Salman, which he wrote with the dawn of the Fajr Yemen operations.

The comment that Prince Khalid published on his page on the 'X' platform threatened the Iranian Houthi militias, and he quoted a line of poetry from his grandfather, the founding king, Abdulaziz, in the Najdi dialect, saying:

You are crazy, O speaker, the battle has just begun!

And the meaning is: You are deluded, O enemy, if you think that the battle has ended; rather, it is just beginning and its smoke is rising.

And the continuation of this verse as mentioned in sources of Saudi popular heritage:

A small brave one follows it, a horse with its tail raised.

Meaning: A brave young man runs in the battlefield, and the horses are charging and rearing, with the place where their tails grow being "Qitiy."

This color of hair is unique, and it usually comes from the mouths of princes and great knights, in the battlefield. It is an ancient Arabic color, referred to as: 'Huda of horses', and there are old and new writings about it, among the new ones:

'Huda of Horses' by the great professor Saad Al-Suwayan.

'Diwan of Rajas and Huda' by the writer Ibrahim Al-Khalidi.

'Diwan of Hadawi of Horses' by the poet prince Mohammed Al-Ahmad Al-Sudairy, which was edited and cared for by the capable Saudi researcher Suleiman Al-Hadithi.

Al-Suwayan defines Huda of horses, in the literature of Arab desert combat, as: 'the verses that the knights chant while on the backs of their steeds, whether on their way to raid or after returning victorious, intended to instill fear in the hearts of enemies or to inspire enthusiasm in the souls of warriors and incite them to bravery and steadfastness.'

As long as we are in the world of Abdulaziz, horsemanship, and challenge, here is a glimpse of some of his war challenges:

His challenges after his victory in the Battle of Jarab in 1915

They were unable to heed the advice / and I, about betrayal, am aware

O those who seek praises / there is no good except after evil

And the meaning is clear. The betrayal refers to treachery, meaning I refuse the method of treachery.

What Abdulaziz embodies - and does not have - as mentioned by the Saudi scholar Ibn Aqil Al-Dhahiri, is the saying of the bard:

No one is safe except the one who acts with strength / and the one who lies down is an easy target!

The meaning is: whoever does not confront his opponent with strength will become a target for his opponent, because the one who is 'lying down' will inevitably be challenged by enemies.

This article is not a literary plea about the art of war poetry - although that is one of my favorite matters - but it is a reminder of the spirit of leadership and decisiveness that the founding king embodied when the need arose, and this spirit continues in today's Saudi leadership, from Salman the Resolute and Mohammed the Determined.

Quoted from "Asharq Al-Awsat"