Within a Sufi framework held by Al-Attar’s granddaughter, the events of this novel take place in the critical period that Egypt is experiencing before the emergence of the Fatimid state and in its beginnings. It depicts the social situation of the Egyptian people at that time, and the political conflicts hidden under the cloak of religion.
In “The Vision of the Eye,” Mustafa Moussa weaves two parallel stories that go side by side, and are intertwined with a third heritage story narrated by “Ablaa” over many years. Fates intersect, destinies are drawn, and the facts of a conflict that will last forever are revealed.
Novel: A Girl's Crisis
About the novel:
The events of the novel begin with an interpretation of a dream for a girl that increases her pain and pain in her heart, and the thought exhausts her mind, then her memory returns to the reasons for this dream and the interpretation..
The events of the novel revolve around a young girl (Juri) who goes out for two hours and returns collapsed, broken, and shocked, because of a reckless young man who destroyed her femininity and elegance after he was her friend who sits near her uncle’s house, and no one from her family was able to find out what happened except her cousin (Ahmed). Days pass and she hates all the men except her cousin, who helped her and stood up to her cousins. The girl grows up and the pain continues, and her pain increases with her friends’ thoughts about love for another young man (Ziyad), who enters her life without warning, so dreams and interpretations begin to haunt her, and the hatred and hatred towards them increases more and more when she learns that the two young men are relatives. The young man is initially confused by the girl's treatment of him until he insists on exploring what is hidden inside her, only to find himself falling in love with her, and the fate of his love for her is unknown. He is satisfied with him as a husband! Or throws his hopes into the abyss of her hatred? ..
As for her family, they believe that once she gets married, the crisis she has been through for many years will end, and they hope that her heart will soften toward her cousins...
The novel ends with Juri realizing the lie she lived and suffered with for many years, and forgiving whoever caused it.
Novel: Where did you lose your hearts?
They were sitting at the dining table eating lunch.
The brothers were arguing about something, and nothing stopped them except the mother’s crying and the father’s shock. The brother stood up to find out what had happened and was shocked as well. The sisters did not realize what had happened to them...what might put the shock on their faces. They only knew one thing, which was that death was coming.
That day came when the father, who works in the most honorable profession of protecting the homeland, would leave. He was going to the battlefield!
Days passed and nothing had happened yet.. They thought that what was published were just rumours, until one day they felt an earthquake, an earthquake that was neither strong nor weak. From that moment they knew that their country had begun to collapse.. They knew that they had reached the end, or to be more precise, they had not reached the end. It was only the beginning, the beginning of the war and the beginning of the pain.
From that moment, the family began to struggle with death...to struggle with pain...the pain of loss...the loss of the self, the loss of the father, and the greatest loss was the loss of the homeland! The homeland that sheltered and protected them...so how could they lose the place where they made their memories?
Since he found burnt bones in Tell Al-Makrab, bad luck has been accompanying Mahdi, as misfortunes continue to happen to him, as he thinks, but the head of the Egyptian excavation team has a different opinion, and that is why he seeks his help in searching for antiquities, and soon his intuition is correct, and they find the treasure. Which the ancient tales of sheikhs talk about. But bad luck intervenes again and sends his friend to prison. Will he survive? What does the ancient prophecy have to do with it? Who is the “girlfriend” that he will meet, so that each of them will change the fate of the other?
With an exciting narration, Bassam Shams El-Din moves from one event to another, telling us the story of Mahdi Nasari, a poor hired hand, shedding light on the entry of the Egyptian army into Yemen, and its support for the revolution led by the Republicans against the royalists there.
