86 our museums and our sciences. It was silent ... I said: O heart … you exhausted me and tired me ... whenever I support one of your arteries, another collapses... Have mercy upon me ... He said: Do you like what is happening now in the Arab world, shame, destruction and eviction ... I adjure thee by Allah, is this one of the doings of humanity? I adjure thee by Allah, is this one of the doings of Arab manners? ... I adjure thee by Allah, Is this doing of the teachings of the tolerant religion?.”“ I said, easy, my heart .. calm down, do not push me to curse the darkness, but drive me to light a candle that illuminates the path for us in this darkened world... He said: I knew your candle.. I had known it since I was young .. for the books, you took your golden dagger while you didn’t reach your twelfth year, you pawned it to buy books, didn’t you? .. I told him: that did happen.. and all of my brothers, each of them has a golden dagger, Where are their daggers? .. The value of my dagger is still in my chest; science and knowledge… He said: I saw you in the first Book Fair.. as you wandered, and none of the fair visitors in its first session would buy these books .. I did not see you sad, but I saw you determined .. Even if others said that’s enough.. because this part of the Arab world isn’t fit for a book fair... and you took the initiative and bought all the books .. Part of them in the public library and another part in the school and another part for me personally .. and determination continued to pursue the establishment of this fair.. He said: Now my heart and you are up
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