12/12/2025 - 20:06 PM
By: Naji Ali Amhaz
At the outset, I do not pen these words from fleeting imagination. Rather, I record an intellectual and realistic experience—one from which I have extracted the proof of reason and the power of deduction in the balance of international politics.
Most of you know that I am a protégé of the Lebanese elite. A quarter-century ago, I stood in contemplation before the great structure of the "Global Order"—that "System" which steers the planet's helm. With the audacity of a free mind, I dared to question some components of this established edifice. I asked myself, and I asked them: Why is the ritualistic and symbolic Levantine (Arab and Islamic) presence absent from this system that rules the world?
If you seek "Light" remember: when the sun rises, it does not confine its radiance to a specific geographical spot; rather, it is a commons for all humanity.
I began writing and engaged in extensive intellectual debates. Among those elites, I found a respect for the intellect, an appreciation for intellectual realism, and a reverence for the sciences of symbols and cosmic secrets upon which the architecture of the ancient and modern world is built. When I say "observations," I mean deep critical studies that were—and still are—waiting for someone to spark the discussion.
The Five Pillars of Global Influence
For those unaware of the engineering of this world, let me summarize what I call the political cosmic law, where influence is shared by five major systems:
1. The Masonic System: The womb from which secularism, economic theories, governance mechanisms (such as the Security Council), the Bill of Human Rights, and the philosophy of the transfer of power were born. From its cloak emerged modern currents like Marxism and Capitalism, and the maps of nations—including nationalist ideas—were formed.
2. Buddhism and its spiritual orbit.
3. Christianity with its various churches and denominations.
4. Islam with its schools and principles.
5. Judaism and what stemmed from it.
A New Intellectual Pillar
When I set out to write, aspiring to add a new pillar or an innovative intellectual school to this system (which has existed in its current form since 1717), I was not intimidated by the 300 years that had passed without change. Nor was I deterred by the traditional question: "Who are you to add?"
I did not fear that someone would say: "How dare you place your thought alongside giants of the global elite like Voltaire, Montesquieu, Goethe, Pushkin, Hugo, Twain, Wilde, Rihani, Abduh, and others?"
I rejected this defeatist logic. Enlightened minds know that just as nature has seasons for sowing and reaping, history has seasons for thought and renewal. Only a dead mind sanctifies the past to the point of retreating into it. Realism, however, is the ladder of nations' ascent.
Thanks to this persistence—and because collective consciousness is a moment of inspiration seized by prepared souls—the idea of The Orient (Mashriqiyah) matured within the heart of this system. I was not alone. Giants in this global forum shared the vision, led by a unique Lebanese-French figure, considered today among the ten most influential people globally. With his mandate and moral authority, he established in 2017 a new global rite that restored regard for Eastern symbols, breaking the stagnation of a constitution that had lasted three centuries.
Here, I find nothing more eloquent than the words of the Prince of Rhetoric, Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, to describe this human condition:
"You deem yourself a small body, yet within you the macrocosm is folded."
A Realized Understanding
As an Arab Shia, I say without false pride: the understanding I have reached of the corridors of this global system far exceeds what political figures—some of whom held the highest official positions, including three former parliamentary speakerships—have attained. They did not touch or reach half of what I realized of the secrets of this "System." This is a matter acknowledged globally.
I am fully aware that my society measures a person with a scale different from that of conscious nations. There, "the value of every man is what he does well," and knowledge is capital. Here, value is measured by the money one possesses—until money becomes the entire sum of knowledge.
How I wish my people would be cured of "money fever" before they are buried in it, instead of living in its bliss. I do not call on you to disbelieve in money, but I call on you not to worship it. In the end, it will enslave you rather than serve your ambitions and your role in this region.
A Call to Strategic Awareness
The most important thing you can achieve in this era is to preserve, as Shia, your gains within the Lebanese State.
The Global System does not care whether you are with it or against it; it only respects those who read its "constitution" correctly. This system does not fight anyone until it has completed reading their minutest details. Have you read its details before seeking to fight it?
The Global System is not annoyed if you tell it, "This color distorts the image." It will ask, "What do you have?" But beware of scribbling childishly on the painting it is drawing. Only then will it pour its wrath upon you.
We, the Shia, are in dire need of understanding how the gears of this global machine—the "System"—operate, and how algorithms move within giant quantum computers to produce intelligence and eternal memory.
Understanding is protection. Knowledge is power.
For he who plants in the summer, harvests hunger in the winter.
Even when we disagree with the world out of awareness, the disagreement has a delicious flavor formed by points, and the cause has the echo of respect. Activate your minds, propose concepts, move in all directions based on precise knowledge of the compass, and you will find yourselves as Imam Ali wanted you to be.
Imam Ali’s Commandments: A Compass for Engagement
• "People are of two types: either your brother in religion or your equal in creation." Let us at least understand creation as they are.
• "The value of every man is what he does well." Let your knowledge and beneficial work be your measure.
• "There is no treasure more useful than knowledge." True wealth inhabits minds, not pockets.
• "Socialize with people in such a manner that if you die, they weep for you, and if you live, they long for you." This is the essence of diplomacy and social realism.
Final Word
I do not write for applause or even criticism. I write to the world so that it does not go too far in its war against the Shia. The problem is that within the Global System, there are no Arab Shia.
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