Somali → English transcript

If I have wronged someone,

if anyone has a claim against me,

if anyone has a claim that I have oppressed the Muslim faith...

That I have oppressed Somalis,

that I have eaten the wealth of the poor.

If anyone has a claim, if anyone has a claim I also accept whatever else there is.

Now this man has made me suffer, the County Commissioner said,"

What he is saying is true." Where these men stop the

women’s cloths and sit in the market, I will stand. I stood for almost twenty years,

they were voting for me. Do I owe them any favor or not? I pay the car in cash.

I stop, I get out,

I ask the taxi boys,“ Is traffic a problem? Talk to us about the traffic.”

The traffic guy I just called to this house. So when you are a leader,

what is needed is that you become...

... accessible to the public.

Do not abandon religion.

The MCA is sitting. The many accusations made against the leaders... ...

some of them are true.

That one there is a thief,

a thief who was said to have done nothing, but some of it is true. There is drought.

When there is drought and people travel, they go for Umrah.

Sheikh Maxamed did not... ... say anything about it.

The scholars...

am I the one telling you to go for Umrah? I thought the ones who should go

for Umrah were the scholars. They were the ones going.

His mother is the one providing for him. Now in terms of health,

our regions are in a bad state. Health. This hospital now,

the minister of health of this town is the best young man.

But he cannot work alone.

From the first month of the year we just passed until the fourth month,

eighteen mothers died in this hospital. The men I sent,

from the fifth month until now, there has been no mother dying.

Work is being done. There is some truth to the many

accusations being spread about these leaders in our region.

The man who is talking about their faults is weak and ignorant……

he himself has not understood,

but there is some truth in what he is saying. If it is about corruption

and stealing public funds, there is some truth to it.

If it is about how people should

have been served and how religion has been neglected, there is some truth to it.

Are we telling lies or are we telling the truth?

That man, as for him,

the five presidents of this country…

… three of them were from your people.

Today they were raided in their homes. And he cannot be spoken to.

But let us talk among ourselves. The gossip that is being spread,

there is some truth to it. And we blame that gossip on

a bad bond of clanism. So we must consult one another.

And choose… … the next election, if God lets us reach it. People who are,

first and foremost, Muslims.

And who fear God.

And who tell the truth.

And who do not eat public funds. And who are kind to the poor. I will not run now,

because I have grown old, I am worn out.

I do not want a seat,

but now that you have elected me, I am grateful to you. It is better for a leader

to step down while still loved.

Clinging to power and being forced out is not good. So we must learn this.

Men, your shield is

the one who…

as he said— what was it again, that man… Amiin Imam Shafi’i.

And I cannot insult such a leader.

I cannot insult such a leader. The leader, where he comes from…

his people are barefoot. Their feet have suffered from how they used to

drink liquor. Where he himself came from. Even their women do not give birth.

He is a lowly man.