1 - The narrative of history is a story. It can be destructive, stirring up sedition, awakening vendettas, fueling disputes, and used as a means of spreading rumors, dismantling societies, and reviving grudges and animosities, such as the blazing fire we witness between Shia and Sunni for the past fourteen hundred years until today. It can also be a means of building an image, creating a reputation, and reviving a culture with its language, state, and society, as we witness with the revival of the Hebrew language, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the unification of a community that lived for three thousand years in diaspora, oppressed and isolated from its surroundings due to the rejection of the country's inhabitants.

2 - History is tales and stories, some real, some fabricated. Some describe a condition, situation, positions, time, person, or event with the aim of documentation; others aim to accuse, defile, and lie. Some analyze, infer, and conclude; others narrate events without intervention, merely recording. Some praise or criticize; others build an image, either truthful or false, aiming at veneration or distortion.

3 - They say 'history is written by the victor,' but the truth is that history is an available narrative written by both victor and vanquished alike. The difference that makes a narrative limited in presence or widespread is the quality of the writing, not victory or defeat.

4 - History is a science and thought based on study, excavation, research, analysis, and comparison. The more sources, the higher the quality of research, the stronger the science, the broader the vision of thought, the closer comparisons and analyses come to the truth, the narrower the areas of error, and the clearer the elements of correctness.

5 - The observer of our Arab and Islamic history, for example, finds that it has been written three times: once from a Sunni perspective, once from a Shia perspective, and a third from a Shu'ubi (ethnic nationalist) perspective, with little agreement among them. The heroes of some are the criminals of others, and distortion reaching the level of forgery affects persons, events, ideas, and intentions.

6 - Societies either own their present, so they view history as a memory, or they do not own their present, so they cling to history as all they possess.

7 - If history becomes a roadmap for society that must be followed, that means this society is living in confusion. But if society views history as a motivator, that is evidence that it is moving toward the future.

8 - Those who promote the saying 'He who has no past has no future' live in illusion. History has usurped their present for fear of alienation, so they are lost between usurpation and alienation.

9 - Those who see that history is our identity regurgitate what their ancestors bequeathed to them because they are unable to shape their present.

10 - Those who fight modernity because it is a detachment from roots, and see authenticity as clinging to history, live in inner panic from the future and fear of change. They have preferred to withdraw and flee to the cave of the past.