I feel proud and grateful when I recall what our prominent figures have published over the past weeks: in-depth and well-sourced analyses describing Iranian terrorism and the collective character of their fascist regime.

However, what our esteemed elders - may Allah preserve them - and the practice of professional regimes have taught us, compels us to review our performance for the sake of development and improvement. No matter how advanced our performance is, there remains room for improvement. The candidness I find in those distinguished theses impresses me, but like any double-edged sword, it must be used wisely, lest we lose fair-minded viewers and listeners.

In this context, a rational and robust proposition caught my attention. I agreed with over ninety percent of it and republished it to spread the benefit, and I am the first to benefit from it. However, I have reservations regarding the sarcasm it contained towards the moment of the arrest of the late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, may Allah have mercy on him.

Upon analysis, we have the right to direct our constructive criticism at his actions, but it is wrong to insult him or belittle his person. Likewise, those who judge him based on the American narrative - that he was hiding in a pit at the moment of his arrest, terrified and fearful - are mistaken. War is deception, rife with misleading propaganda, and no one can definitively state how or where he was arrested.

The truth is that he was a human being like us, not infallible; he had his good deeds and his bad deeds. There is no doubt that his decision to invade Kuwait and attack his brothers in the Gulf was reckless, a strategic and national mistake, and undoubtedly one of his misdeeds. But his biography includes other bright chapters, including his confrontation with Khomeini and his minions, and thwarting their ambitions. Moreover, the story of his execution, in its entirety, is a bright historical tale.

If I wanted to be fair in my analysis, I would not judge his person based on what was said about him at the moment of his arrest - as a lion bound in his chains - but rather by what we all saw with our own eyes in his final moments: the moment of his heroic execution which Allah ordained for him, and his success in uttering the two testimonies of faith, smiling, indifferent to the hangman's noose, may his enemies be confounded and disappointed!

The man had his good deeds and his bad deeds. If we turn the page on his ominous chapter - the chapter of the occupation of Kuwait and attacking his brothers in the Gulf— we find that the rest of his pages are heroic, whether we agree with his good deeds or differ with him over his recklessness.

May Allah have mercy on him, and may Allah have mercy on his innocent victims.