For
the love of his country.
Abu Arz
loves Lebanon unto infatuation: he places it just below God and above man,
making of this trilogy: God, Lebanon and Man the ideological base upon which
he builds his political philosophy and his spiritual and martial militancy.
He considers
that God created Lebanon to be the homeland incorporating the principal human
values; he created his people to carry this unique and outstanding message
of civilization; and his nation to safeguard the main qualities around which
the world revolves: Charity, knowledge and liberty.
Hence
the Lebanon of Charity, knowledge and liberty is the Lebanon for which Abu
Arz struggles, endeavoring with all his might to save it from the political,
social and spiritual ills that continue to ravage the country because of the
baseness of its officials on the one hand and on the other, the fierce onslaught
upon it from the desert, that shattered not only Lebanon's independence, freedom
and sovereignty but also its role as pioneer, its ecumenical message and its
original nationality.
Nevertheless,
despite all that befell Lebanon and the mortal condition it has reached, Abu
Arz still believes that this legendary land, in imitation of the Phoenix bird,
will soon inexorably rise again from its present lethargy and will presently
regain the fitness enabling it to resume its historical vanguard role.