Linguistic censorship

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The word “watchdog” appears in the Holy Qur’an in more than one place, referring to the meaning of preservation and knowledge. God Almighty said - and He has the highest example -: “And God is a Watcher over all things,” meaning that He is the Almighty, the Preserver, the Knower, the Witness, from whom nothing on earth or in heaven escapes Him, who watches the conditions of His servants and their deeds, so He hears their words and sees. Their actions, and He knows what is hidden in their hearts and intentions. And God Almighty said: “Not a word does he utter but there is a watcher by him, ever present,” and it is a reminder from God - Blessed and Most High - of the greatness of His supervision over His servants, and that every word or action that a person utters is something preserved, recorded, and privy to. God Almighty says in another verse: “Indeed, God is a Watcher over you,” and the Almighty said: “And I was a witness over them as long as I lived among them, but when you took me, you were the Watcher over them.”

Control is monitoring and following up on something, committing to taking into account its conditions, and verifying its existence, according to specific standards and specific controls, while discovering errors and sometimes correcting them. Censorship is an important and indispensable course of action in our lives. A person begins with himself when he observes his actions, behaviors, and lifestyle, including monitoring his conditions, his mood, and the stages of his scientific or practical development, or the like. Hence, every person has his own way of monitoring himself, following up on himself, and looking at his health status, for example, and his commitment to his daily schedule of eating, drinking, sleeping, and all the other affairs of his life. This scope of monitoring also includes a person’s monitoring of his money, his home, his family, his wife, and his children. Every human being practices censorship in his life.

And included in the rule of oversight is what our wise government did - may God grant it success - in allocating an important sector in the state, which is (the Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority: Integrity), which has become a clear strategy in following up on state affairs, correcting mistakes, fighting corruption in its various types, intensifying the principle of transparency, and following up on correct performance in a more precise and distinct manner. It includes forms of governmental and national oversight, for example: allocating a body (for nuclear and radiological oversight) that is concerned with regulating nuclear and radiological practices, activities, and facilities; With the aim of protecting humans and the environment from the harmful effects of radiation, consistent with international obligations, and enhancing national economic competitiveness.

One of the manifestations of control is what airports do in allocating air traffic control towers. This is with the aim of managing the movement of aircraft on the airport grounds, directing incoming and departing aircraft to their routes, and to the landing runways safely and regularly, giving priority, and proposing alternative routes in emergency situations, and this is also the case with what ports do in terms of allocating control towers to enhance the security of maritime navigation, regulating the movement of ships, managing the sailing and docking of ships in ports, and organizing their positioning.

Based on these oversight aspects; Today, we are in dire need of (linguistic censorship) through which the (linguistic observer) follows up on linguistic usages of various types, apart from the work of linguistic auditing related to specific topics or well-known fields. Linguistic control is important if practiced correctly and applied effectively, especially in official speeches, daily writings, and various advertisements. Linguistic control leads to strengthening linguistic identity and confirms that the Arabic language is an important principle in the Saudi national identity, and is a form of linguistic depth. For Arab and Islamic culture.

The importance of linguistic censorship today is that it is consistent with the national policy for the Arabic language in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Therefore, for many institutions - linguistic, scientific, cultural, and others - to assume the function of linguistic oversight, or language monitor, is something that would achieve a lot of success in various fields.