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Al Rajhi ... a model
Published in Alriyadh on 14 - 02 - 2011

Do not you enjoy it when you find yourself astonished by revising a long history interrupted by the missions of modernizing the European community that lasted for more than two hundred years, and when you find yourself in a very difficult situation when you want to trace how could immigrants from Europe, most of whom are in disparate status under the a British authoritative regime that competes with another French in the neo-America, then, and within a short period of time, that new country becomes the first in the world?
I wish if we in our Arab peninsula, with our Saudi people, can still continue doing that thing, especially that we have the required potentials. I bet also that you will be more capable of enjoying more and more when you revise your civilizational and international diplomatic history that was started by the late King Abdel Aziz. You, with about one hundred hears, could survive as a an Arab nomad, either from the center, north, or south of the peninsula to get out of the chaos of nomadic homelessness which you inherited from the Umayyad, Abbasids, and then the Ottomans.
You will be enjoying if you were in the age of youth or approaching the forties when an fairly elderly man in his seventies narrates to you how you could jump from an era of mud houses, dusty roads, cattle trade and grazing, and the lack of dates and basic necessities of the Diwanyiah or the kitchen, then you became witnessing high towers and long high ways and international restaurants, then the existence of 32 universities most of which are for scientific studies while before people were ignorant about what does a school means.
Read the biography of Sheikh Saled Bin Abdel Aziz Al Rajhi to know the beginning of the life of an ambitious young man who owned few riyals, not hundreds or thousands, then he worked hard in the city of Safat exchanging and investing the few piaster he made to buy busy riyals again. He was a man of dignity, a self-dependant man whom I have picked as a model brightness honorable ambitious man who also traveled after that in the Levant putting what used to be called Kamar below his stomach where he would put his pocket money which was less than one lira or dollar to pay for the taxi or the café. He built himself totally independently, the same as the other villages did, and he promoted himself the same way as the exchange companies on the Safat transformed into banks with huge capitals after being small trades based on exchanging a few riyals. The same thing applies on the gas, mining, steel, cement, electricity, and catering companies. A transformation of what used to be called "Howaiyet" i.e. the village's plantation of which palms did not exceed thirty, into plantations with more than ten thousand palm.
May God rest the soul of Saleh Al Rajhi, and may He prolong the life of the sheikhs of Jumaih. There are a lot similar to these two families such as Al Elyan, Al Rashid, and Al Umran. However, these two named remain the most sparkling being the oldest. And I greet Mr. Abdelrahman Aljuraisi who started as a kid in the shop of the late Mohamed Al Mesha'al, who is now the Chairman of the chamber of commerce in Riyadh.


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