Speaking about those who stir up pre-Islamic tribal animosities among Muslims.

The questioner : I am asking a question, and perhaps if you were asked, meaning the truth, we would hear your opinion here.The Shaykh : Because the issue of our current living situation involves an attempt to stir up regional discord, meaning that this person is of Palestinian origin and this one is of Adrani origin, thereby inciting a discord that leaves nothing standing.

The Shaykh : We ask Allah for safety.

The questioner : In our capacity as Muslims now, what is the role that we must practice and adopt in curbing the flare-up of this discord and thereby adhering to the path of truth?

The Shaykh : By Allah, this is a matter in which a person has no power except to spread correct Islamic awareness and to remind people of such as the saying of Allah the Exalted: and that this tribalism and its incitement is only for the benefit of the disbelievers, including the disbelievers who have occupied the lands, where they want to implement the old English policy that says "divide and rule." They want to divide the Muslim from his brother by stirring up pre-Islamic tribal animosities and tribal fanaticism. So the Muslim has no role in this matter or any other except to remind people of the Shari'ah of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and that there is no superiority of an Arab over a non-Arab except by taqwa (mindfulness of Allah), and a fortiori, there is no superiority of an Adrani Arab over a Palestinian Arab, over a Hijazi Arab, or a Najdi Arab, or the like. This is the reality. The matter is in the hands of the state, and it is the state that must do the work that puts an end to the discord. The first of that is that it seeks to make the Shari'ah the judge and make it a general ruling among Muslims as a system and law to which the great and the small, the prince and the lowly, and the like are subject. - Excuse me, we have not prayed 'Isha' and it is going to be midnight.

The questioner : Finish, my master, but the other part.

The Shaykh : Please proceed.

The questioner : This is with regard to the fact that no person has superiority over another except by taqwa. Now, is it not certainly the case that this land, whether a Palestinian or an Adrani is found on it now, in the Shari'ah of the Lord of the Worlds, Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), that the land is not the property of anyone, is it not so?

The Shaykh : That is correct.

The questioner : Therefore, the presence of Muslims on it, regardless of their birthplace and the like.

The Shaykh : Also, this is from the words of Islamic lecturers always and forever, which is forgotten in such circumstances, even if only sometimes, that every Islamic land is a homeland for every Muslim. This is a fact in which no Muslim has any doubt at all. But if tribal animosity and pre-Islamic fanaticism enter, they overturn this Shari'ah reality and make it scattered dust, unfortunately. Otherwise, there is absolutely no difference, meaning.

The questioner : So if we understand this Shari'ah, the issue is eliminated from its foundation.

The Shaykh : Allah is the Greatest, it would have been.