War has never entered a country without leaving behind something more severe than death and destruction. The war shells not only kill people but also kill many values, in addition to causing a societal rift even at the level of people’s daily behavior.
Except in this authentic rural society, which has been exhausted by the war and its consequences as well, which killed many of them; however, it failed to kill the spirit of initiative and the values of cooperation and brotherhood in them.
Here, at the top of this exemplary mountain, the teacher and educator Hamoud Ahmed Al-Sururi stands tall in the face of the three fatal threats: cold, war, and salary interruption, breaking up the rocks of the impossible, as he makes a way for people to life, just as he makes a way for their children every morning to the light.
Development and Cooperation Values
I am sure that this teacher is the only one who spends all his day as an educator; he works in the morning as an educator for male and female students in the first grades at Al-Qadisiyah School in the village of Al-Magharem, Kusmah district, Raymah governorate, and in the evening, in the spirit of initiative, he leaves his blackboard chalks and carries an iron rod to educate the community and the generation—who is considered a role model for them—on the values of cooperation, through repairing what has been ruined by rainwater or floods in the roads, and to expand the narrow areas that need to be expanded or modified. He makes his contribution, in practice, to every development project implemented with community funding.
“The circumstances forced him to send his eldest son, Abdulsalam (21 years old), to the Al-Raqqu area, in the Munabbih district, Saada governorate, on the border with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he had no choice but to get a piece of bread or a mortar shrapnel.”
"The teacher was almost a messenger," I repeated this to myself, asking: The teacher is almost a messenger while performing the message of knowledge alone, so how about him when he performs the two messages of knowledge and labor together?
This teacher, who makes you feel that he is the heir of the prophets, believes that his lofty message goes beyond the walls of the classrooms and the school fence and that qualification is worthless without values, just as there is no value for knowledge that we do not translate into action.
Al-Sururi sees himself as a farmer on sacred land. He feels that satisfying minds is more important than satisfying stomachs, and he believes that reaping what he sows is worth the effort. Therefore, he did not take another path to search for a source of livelihood after his salary was cut off.
The Situation and the Scar of Sadness
The teacher Hammoud Al-Sururi preferred to stay on his sacred farm, planting seeds of knowledge there every morning and seeing his seeds grow every day. However, after his situation became difficult, the circumstances forced him to send his eldest son, Abdulsalam (21 years old), to the Al-Raqqu area, in the Munabbih district, Saada governorate, on the border with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as he had no choice but to get a piece of bread or a mortar shrapnel.
So, on his way to get the first (a piece of bread), the Saudi border guard forces gave him the second (a mortar shrapnel), and as a result, Abdul Salam passed away on September 3, 2021, leaving in his father’s solid heart a great scar of sadness.
