What is the Muslim's position regarding the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) among Muslims?

The questioner: Briefly, what is our position as Muslims regarding this fitnah that has occurred? How do you know? A dead body.

The Shaykh: I am surprised by such a question from enthusiastic youth. I mean, what do you think you can achieve as individuals? If your governments are doing nothing, what can you possibly do?

The questioner: We sit at home and listen. Yes. We sit at home and listen.

The Shaykh: Yes, that is the obligatory duty. We mentioned, on this occasion, some authentic hadiths.
Among them is his saying (peace be upon him) And it came in some other hadiths that when that time comes, the Muslim has nothing to do but be like the son of Adam, and in another clear and explicit narration: "Be the locks of your houses." This is a time in which this hadith was fully manifested.
As for the first report a believer, this was manifested in people who, before this fitnah occurred, used to declare others disbelievers, and then, between one evening and the next morning, they began to exalt them to the heavens, and vice versa. Then the fitnah became apparent, spreading to every household; I do not say in the Arab countries, but in the Islamic countries. As you know, people became emotional and fanatical for Iraq, although it is not hidden from any Muslim that Iraq attacked Kuwait and violated its sanctity. And people became fanatical for Saudi Arabia against Iraq. All of these people were not on knowledge or insight regarding their religion at all; it was either unbridled emotions that are not accompanied by evidence to light their path, or personal desires that do not know what is right and do not deny what is wrong.
And there was enthusiasm here, and you heard about the issue they call? Gardens. No, just the festivals of the Popular Army. Yes, and look at what happened to the Popular Army? They want to do what? They want to fight with Iraq. For whom? For the Americans, and these Americans are next to the Dutch. Why did they not kill him all this time? Because individuals cannot do anything at all of the things that hurt the soul. The night before it happened, about half an hour before, a young man from Algeria called. He asked a question. You were surprised by this question as much as you want. He said, "What is your opinion? Open the subscription for forming a Popular Army to fight in Palestine, for jihad in Palestine." A strange surprise. Where? In Algeria. How do these people think? I was astonished and said, "From whom?" He said, "A front from the fronts." I told him, "If you want to do jihad, go to Afghanistan and do jihad. How do you want to do jihad in Palestine?" I mean, these people are as if they are taking Palestine as the shirt of 'Uthman, wanting to gather people and kill them, from the emotional path. They do not know that between them and Palestine are governments, and these governments are not prepared to do jihad in the path of Allah. So what do these individuals do?
The point is that the Muslim today, if he joins Iraq, if it is possible for him to join and fight, he will be exposed to fighting Muslims, not the Americans. I said at the beginning of this fitnah, I do not think the Americans will be defeated by a single soldier until they have destroyed hundreds of Muslims, and after making the Muslims the scapegoat, fighting each other. And if they use anything, they will use long-range shooting so that not a single soldier of theirs is hit.
Therefore, we said: hold fast to this hadith and be the sweetest in your homes. Likewise, we said to those who became enthusiastic among the Kuwaitis and Saudis after the Iraqis seized Kuwait and popular groups formed there wanting to fight Iraq, claiming they would expel Iraq from Kuwait. We said to them: Glory be to Allah, you are individuals, and none of the Arab or Islamic states stepped forward to expel Iraq and restore it to its country. You are individuals now, wanting to expel Iraq from Kuwait. Preserve your blood for the day when it is declared and the banner of jihad in the path of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, is raised. Then the great calamity occurred when it did not take place.
The Arab states did not fulfill the obligation of realizing the saying of Allah the Exalted: The incident occurred; they fell short in realizing the verse due to their inability to realize it, had they wanted to. How are they when they did not want to? They sought the help of the disbelievers and permitted them to enter the lands, and what you are hearing now of problems occurred there. We ask Allah, Mighty and Majestic, to protect us from the evil of this fitnah. .