It has been asserted that “a clear vision produces tremendous confidence, fortifies your will to work hard, motivates others, and leads them to success.”[1] This assertion is evident in Sa´adeh’s positive and clear vision of the future of his nation, which provides a unifying theme for all Syrians and unites them around a common meaningful purpose; i.e., lifting and building an entire nation. This purpose motivates party members to participate in a meaningful endeavour. It draws them together to form a unified group and a community sharing a common dream and a powerful sense of a bigger, more compelling future. Sa´adeh portrayed the following picture of the unifying dream:

Ever since the hour in which we united our hearts and our hands to stand or fall together for the sake of the realization of the highest ideal proclaimed in the principles of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and in its aim - ever since that hour we have put our hands on the plough and directed our eyes forward toward the ideal. We have become one community, one living nation seeking the beautiful free life, a nation loving life because it loves liberty and loving death when death is a life path.[2]

Sa´adeh’s comprehensive vision is not a mere dream. It is a top-level, life-orienting goal that promises to meet people’s deepest aspirations. This goal, however, requires people’s commitment, actions and engagement. Without action, nothing can be achieved. As South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, once said: “Vision without Action is merely a dream. Action without Vision is merely passing time. Vision with Action can change the world.”[3] Action, however, rests on people’s willingness to take responsibility and meet their obligations and duties. One author maintains: “Action springs not just from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”[4] Thus, Sa´adeh invited all his countrymen and women to take action and engage in a national project centered on his vision. In his work Intellectual Struggle in Syrian Literature, he invited Syrian writers and poets to link up with Syria’s magnificent past and to produce literature whose topics would be relevant to, and rooted in, the heart of Syrian life. He urged them to employ topics about the history of the Syrian nation and her talents and the philosophies of her mythologies and their teachings. He stated:

Let us light a torch for this nation [Syria] which is wandering in darkness; a torch that shines with our truth, and the hope raised by our will, and the correctness of our life. Let us build for our nation palaces of love, wisdom, beauty and hope, and let us construct them with material found within the history of our Syrian nation, its talents, philosophy and teachings that have dealt with the essential issues of human life.[5]