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Abdulla Bin Abdul Aziz & the popular relationships
Published in Alriyadh on 19 - 05 - 2012

Presidents, leasers & Interface men are always surrounded by a fence that keeps a way from the public. If they get out of such fence in few & rare times; their appearance is, then, just because of special conditions or for acting a play role for a certain purpose. All those who are in the front are away from people in this way. Westerners may be more objective in regard to how expanded is such fence while leaders of the third world are the farthest from public opinion components, especially in our Arab world.
How Abdulla Bin Abdul Aziz Used to behave before reaching the post of Crown Prince & how he has been behaving after becoming the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques?
I can confirm that his personal life and public, not private, relationships have unique practices that deserve to be a subject for a special study that can show the follower how much he is different from the others in his behavior, dealings & relationships. The kind of his social and familial life combines between two different aspects. The first aspect is about a leader of unique concerns and ideas who is approving the implementation of massive economic, scientific & technical projects, in addition to the deterring of extremism &Spreading the fair objective social membership of man & woman. The second aspect is represented by his practice of his responsibilities and his unique personal presence.
Such leader shall be, obviously, excused if such responsibilities that have never been existed in any country in the third world isolated him from his society. His people shall, then, appreciate that the achievements he is in charge for represent a good logical reason for his inability to have multi levels social relationships.
However, what happened was the opposite of this. He is a magnificent man in regard to his ideas projects that meet the needs of his citizens through his multi important development decisions but is still simple enough to maintain various social relationships. He looks as if he is taking the society with him in all occasions where he is present among his people as if he is a colleague to a college student or (to) an administrative officer.
His plainness has not been a social responsibility that he added to his efficient leadership responsibilities. He who knows King Abdulla Bin Abdul Aziz ten or twenty years prior to his being the Crown Prince and compares him with The same person after his becoming a king shall realize that the great man was simple, objective & respectful in his close social relations, even if he disagrees in a view point or another with some of the people he used to be socializing with.
I still remember the time, ten years before his being the Crown Prince, during which he used to invite us, the chief editors, for participating in an occasion organized by the national Guards in various geographical locations. It was a wonderful fanciful thing. We used to think that he was a man of firm serious character and language but we were surprised when we realized how he was asking us to be asking us to be on his right and left sides during the lunch or dinner. My colleagues are still remembering how we did not know how to start a discussion at the beginning. However, we came to be sure, after two or three meetings with him that he is a simple and normal person as if he is one of our colleagues. It was not the simplicity only that surprised us as we came to discover his humor, as well when he was expressing his humorous smart comments. We could tell that he has a deep awareness about the nature and complications of our job. Yet; our realization was not based on that he is complementing or preferring us. The situation was not like that at all. WE did not represent, then, more than 5% of the attendees who were, all, enjoying the same friendliness, humorous talk and meaningful discussions with him.
When he became the Crown Prince and, later, the King; we thought that the doubled responsibilities, their multiple types, the various crises of the Arab World emerged more than half a century ago & our society retarded concepts attempt to represent its interface will busy his time and don't leave any chance for him to keep his various relationships and simple character. Not at all. He has been the same humanitarian, smart and multi-talented gentleman. We had the honor of accompanying him in his official visits where we realized that he's got the same ability of rehabilitating the abilities and setting the tough visions for the future alone, accompanied with simplicity, loving the people and appreciating them.
It's enough to remember the incident of his return from his therapy journey when all categories of the society did not wait an official organization by well-known authorities such as the universities, government departments or social organizations. People consisted of families, including their women and children, mothers and their children and students in all levels of education departed their houses and filled the roads from the first population quarter in Riyadh until airport frontier. It was such a scene that raises the hot feelings when we saw the children we usually meet at the entrances of the commercial markets surrounding him and are even over his head while some others were putting his picture on their chests. It was such a fascinating view of the first father, Abdulla Bin Abdul Aziz.


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