Discussion on Duty and Self-Interest

You see us trying to protect your reputation.

We want discipline from you,

and you are disciplined, God willing.

One day, an officer came— this is a true story— to the front line.

He asked his sniper,

saying: " What do you think of the enemy sniper?" He said," Honestly, he misses.

He's not accurate."

He asked," If he's not accurate, why haven't you killed him?"

He smiled and said," How could I kill him?" " So they would bring someone else,

bring someone accurate who kills me?"

Look, here the ego, the selfishness, intervened.

This man didn't put the interest of his force, his regiment,

and his front line... ... above his own interest. What did he do?

He said," I'm afraid if I kill him..." "...

they will bring an experienced sniper who will kill me."

Therefore, he preferred his interest over whom? Over his unit.

He should have targeted and killed him.

So, how many corrupt people do we have in law enforcement, the state, or politics?

We are a state... ... and politics is government.

But I'm telling you,

how many people are like this sniper who didn't kill his enemy... ...

just so they wouldn't bring someone who would kill him?

A person shouldn't prioritize

their own interest and put their comfort above that of others.

Therefore, we want to follow in the footsteps of the fighters.

I don't want to lecture you.

We are all, as they say,

from the same village and know each other.

You are our brothers, God willing.

By Abu al- Fadl al- Abbas, if I didn't know you were good, dependable men,

I wouldn't speak to you like this.

You are honorable people, heroes, and men of the frontlines.

We didn't bring you here two days or two years ago,

with all due respect to those who are newly appointed.

No, the best of you has sustained three or four wounds.

As Hitler said," The one who came out of our war and isn't sick..."