The Shaykh spoke about the painful reality today regarding Iraq's aggression against Kuwait in the Gulf War.

The Shaykh : ... And now we open the session with the sermon of necessity, even in its abbreviated form, so we say: Indeed, all praise is due to Allah; we praise Him, seek His help, and seek His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evils of our own souls and the badness of our deeds. Whom Allah guides, none can mislead, and whom He leaves to mislead, none can guide. And I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah alone, with no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger. As for what follows, the best of speech is the speech of Allah, the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and his family, and the worst of matters are their innovations. Every innovation is a religious innovation, every religious innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Fire. After that, this painful reality, of which every Muslim truly complains, requires that we remember on this unfortunate occasion a legal reality, which is the saying of the Blessed and Exalted: This is first. Second, the aggression that occurred from an Arab Islamic state against its neighbor, which is also, like the first, an Arab Islamic state, could have been resolved by adjudicating a verse in the Book of Allah the Blessed and Exalted, which is His saying, Mighty and Majestic: But, with great regret, I say with regret, there is not in all these Arab states one who applies all the legal rulings. If there were one who applied all these rulings, there would be none among them capable of realizing the legal ruling mentioned in the previous verse . For this reason, the great fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) that occurred happened, and I personally think that the Islamic world has not been afflicted with anything like it from its own people. The cause of that is that we do not establish the rulings of Islam on the land of Islam. And I do not single out this speech nor do I differentiate in it ... .