One Root, One Destiny, One Responsibility

By Tahir Imin
November 25, 2025

Our current situation is deeply discouraging. Anyone who looks honestly at where we stand today would feel the weight of loss, fragmentation, and uncertainty. To deny this reality would be self-deception. But to surrender to it would be something far worse.

Yes, we are weak — politically, institutionally, and materially.
But weakness does not mean inaction. It does not mean silence. It does not mean abandoning our people to despair.

Yes, we are scattered — across borders, continents, and cultures.
But dispersion does not erase responsibility. Distance does not cancel duty. A people do not stop being a people simply because they have been forced apart.

Yes, many of us are ignorant — not by choice, but by design.
Ignorance, however, is not destiny. It is not a permanent condition. We can learn. We can listen. We can grow. Knowledge begins the moment we refuse to remain still.

Difficulties surround us everywhere. Repression is relentless. The odds are cruel. The road is long.
But fear is the one enemy that guarantees defeat. Giving up does not protect us — it completes the work of those who want us erased.

We must be honest with ourselves: we have many faults.
We are divided. We argue among ourselves. We waste energy. We doubt one another. These weaknesses are real, and they have cost us dearly.

But this is not the whole truth.

We also have strengths that no prison, no propaganda, no occupation can destroy.
We have truth — and truth does not expire.
We have memory — and memory resists erasure.
We have a common root — deeper than borders and generations.
We have a shared destiny — whether we acknowledge it or not.
And above all, we have a responsibility — not chosen, but inherited.

Responsibility to those who came before us and were silenced.
Responsibility to those who suffer today and cannot speak freely.
Responsibility to those who will come after us and will ask what we did when everything was at stake.

History will not ask whether we were powerful.
It will ask whether we acted.
Whether we stood up when it was difficult.
Whether we remained human when the world tried to reduce us to victims or statistics.

One root.
One destiny.
One responsibility.

We may be weak — but we must not be absent.