By Saad Al-Motesh

Many preachers and imams usually use poetry in their sermons and lectures to convey a certain message in a proper and easy way, which I think is alright as long as the lines serve to explain the idea and promote good things for the best of Islam and Muslims. However, some people use the same method for their own interests and to promote certain personal agendas. Conversely, you will have to gladly accept the same from the other side when it uses the same poems to expose you to others.

One of the most famous lines written by the late poet Ghanim Allumai Al-Enezi explains the virtue of good deeds and how to tell the difference between those who deserve them and these who do not. The poet says: Good deeds are never a waste amongst real men but they are amongst cats and foxes. With his wisdom, the poet realizes that good deeds

I will not talk about good men’s benevolence towards others while we know nothing about it because they would not like it to come to public.

always pay back when done to real men and that they would be a waste of time and effort when done to people who resemble cats and foxes in behavior.

I will not talk about good men’s benevolence towards others while we know nothing about it because they would not like it to come to public. What I really want to talk about are those ‘cats and foxes’ who deny the good they received from Kuwait and are out talking badly about it. Kuwait has been good to all its citizens with no exceptions, and when we find some of them deny this and praise other countries, one should immediately realize these people are nothing more than ungrateful cats and foxes. Yet, let us not be unjust to all cats because many of them are purer and cleaner than those in whom the good Kuwait did to him and to his folks before his birth has gone in vain.