“The nation is now like a ship boarding all. If it sinks, all will drown and if it sails through, all will survive,” said Hassān in a meeting with the Azhar students on Tuesday (April 17), urging followers of MB member Khayrat al-Shātir and Salafist Hāzim Salāh Abū Ismā’īl, both were disqualified from the presidential race, to accept the judiciary’s rulings.

“God sustains nations that pursue justice even if they were disbelievers and does not sustain nations that are based on injustice even if they were Islamic,” he added. [‘Umar ‘Abd al-Jawwād, al-Jumhūrīyah, April 18, p. 3] Read text in Arabic