Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: (And We made you peoples and tribes so that you may know one another)
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Exegesis of His saying, the Exalted: (And We made you peoples and tribes so that you may know one another)
Allah the Exalted said: [Surah al-Hujurat: 13] : That is, We made you peoples and tribes, so Allah made the children of Adam peoples, and they are the roots of the tribes.
And they are those below the peoples,For example: Banu Tamim are considered a people, and the sub-tribes of Banu Tamim that branched off from the root are called tribes, [Al-Hujurat 49:13] .
What is the wisdom? Is the wisdom of this making that people boast over one another, saying this man: I am from Quraysh,And this one says: I am from Tamim,And this one says: I am from such-and-such, I am from such-and-such? No, that is not the intent. The intent is mutual recognition, that people know one another, for if it were not for what Allah the Mighty and Majestic made, a person would not be known from which tribe he is. For this reason, it is among the major sins for a person to claim descent from other than his father; because if he claims descent from other than his father, he changes this innate disposition with which Allah created people, which is that they are peoples and tribes for the sake of mutual recognition,It is said: This is so-and-so, son of so-and-so, son of so-and-so, up to the ancestor who was the father of the tribe.
That is, not so that you may boast of lineage and ancestry.
Allah the Exalted said:
And made you into peoples.
وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوباًAnd tribes.
وَقَبَائِلَand made you peoples and tribes
وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوباً وَقَبَائِلَWhat is the wisdom? Is the wisdom of this making that people boast over one another, saying this man: I am from Quraysh,And this one says: I am from Tamim,And this one says: I am from such-and-such, I am from such-and-such? No, that is not the intent. The intent is mutual recognition, that people know one another, for if it were not for what Allah the Mighty and Majestic made, a person would not be known from which tribe he is. For this reason, it is among the major sins for a person to claim descent from other than his father; because if he claims descent from other than his father, he changes this innate disposition with which Allah created people, which is that they are peoples and tribes for the sake of mutual recognition,It is said: This is so-and-so, son of so-and-so, son of so-and-so, up to the ancestor who was the father of the tribe.