Love

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“Doctor: What is this, Hamdi? Didn’t I tell you to close your eyes and go to sleep? Hamdi: I couldn’t go to sleep… I don’t have the strength or the ability to go to sleep after what happened… Impossible… I can’t give in to anything today… or to anyone… and I never have… Doctor, calm down. Hamdi:
Leave me alone!… I don’t want peace… Doctor, listen, Hamdi… Let’s be reasonable… As your treating physician, I tell you that you are committing suicide… I was able to avert the danger of the nervous shock… the shock that almost killed you after that cursed night… but you insist on harming your health with this constant agitation… As your loyal friend, I tell you that you are exposing yourself to the wrath of this tyrant once again… and who knows what the outcome will be this time… Hamdi, what outcome?… Doctor: You know very well what the king intended to do to you… after the words you uttered that night… Hamdi, he was going to order my assassination. Doctor: And it wouldn’t be the first time Once… he does that to anyone who dares to cross him… Hamdi, I know… The doctor: Or at least he orders you to be locked up in a mental hospital… Hamdi: Until you become a madman in the eyes of the people… I know… I know all that… The doctor: And you also know that the credit for saving you from all harm goes to “Wajdan”… She’s the one who told this monster that she wouldn’t accept a royal marriage being linked to a human victim…” This was a reflection on one of the works written by the author Tawfiq al-Hakim in his collection “This Love,” which contains three allegorical stories: “The Flute Player,” “Her Majesty,” and “Love.”