Abbasi, Feroz Ali - short clip - EnduringGuantanamo
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- | First thing that will keep you going, | 0:00 |
not the first thing in terms of importance, just... | 0:03 | |
In a sense of chronologically maybe, | 0:11 | |
is your innocence. | 0:14 | |
[Interviewer] Hmm. | 0:15 | |
- | Because an innocent man incarcerated, | 0:16 |
that keeps you buoyed in a way, | 0:21 | |
it keeps your head up, | 0:23 | |
keeps a sense of your self-respect. | 0:25 | |
You feel that you're being mistreated, unjustly, | 0:27 | |
and injustice won't last | 0:32 | |
and he won't get his way. | 0:34 | |
The truth will prevail in that way, | 0:36 | |
that's the first thing, chronologically. | 0:38 | |
The second thing is... | 0:42 | |
You know it's... | 0:48 | |
You can look at it in many different levels | 0:50 | |
but... | 0:52 | |
On a personal level, | 0:57 | |
I saw it as this is what | 0:58 | |
Allah's decreed from me, | 1:03 | |
what God has decreed for me, | 1:04 | |
there's a reason for him decreeing this for me | 1:06 | |
and you know you can't... | 1:08 | |
There's a wisdom and mercy behind it | 1:10 | |
and I don't understand it, | 1:12 | |
I don't understand why I'm going through this situation | 1:13 | |
but I know that there's a reason why God has put me here | 1:16 | |
and through this situation. | 1:20 | |
In that way you have to humble yourself. | 1:21 |
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