Discussion of the Fitnah of Iraq's Aggression Against Kuwait

The Shaykh : There is no harm in reminding you of a hadith and a legal ruling. As for the hadith, it is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): . They said: "O Messenger of Allah, we support him when he is wronged; how do we support him when he is the wrongdoer?" He said: . Thus, the support of Muslims for one another, according to the detail mentioned in this authentic hadith, is, unfortunately, one of the matters that has become forgotten in the Muslim world. Often, tribal or local fanaticism has prevailed over them. This is what happened to many Muslims when the first fitnah occurred, which was Iraq's aggression against Kuwait. The Muslims divided themselves into two groups: a group that approved of this aggression, which was a clear aggression, and a group that condemned it. We were, and remain, with the group that condemned it, because it contradicts clear and evident texts from the Shari'ah. Among these is the noble verse that is not hidden from anyone, namely His saying (Blessed and Exalted is He): . It was obligatory upon the Muslim states, and we should say: it was obligatory upon the Muslim state, but unfortunately, that was not the case. Perhaps a Muslim state will be near, but there are only Islamic states; their populations are Muslim, but their governments may be in one place and the populations in another. However, this does not take these Muslim populations out of the circle of Islam; they are Islamic populations.
I say: It was obligatory upon the Muslim state to apply the text of this noble verse: to its end. But there were only states, and Muslim states whose rulings, or at least many of their rulings, contradict Islam. So it was very natural that none of these states was able to, or did, apply the previous verse: . If reconciliation is not achieved, , no Muslim state applied this noble verse. That is because there was no state that had established the rulings of Islam in their entirety, including His saying (the Exalted): . The second fitnah occurred, which was the entry of the greatest disbelieving and tyrannical state into the Arab Islamic lands, where such feet had never trod in Islamic history. The Saudi state sought the aid of the American state, and they allowed them to enter by their choice, as they claim. We have no choice but to hold to what they say. They allowed them to enter their lands with their consent, indeed at their request. This was the second fitnah. They claimed that this seeking of aid was out of necessity to prevent a second aggression by the first aggressor against the Kuwaiti state. So, as a precaution to prevent such a second aggression, the Saudi state fell into what is more dangerous than what they imagined would happen, which was allowing the Americans and the British to enter the lands of Islam without a drop of blood being shed from these disbelievers, and without them paying the jizyah with their own hands while they are humbled, as is prescribed for the Muslim state that rules by what Allah has revealed to impose the jizyah on the disbelievers who are enemies of Islam and Muslims. But, unfortunately, the matter was the opposite. The Saudis paid, instead of taking, millions and millions, as you hear and know, to supply these disbelievers. For what purpose? For the purpose of fighting the Muslims in the lands of Iraq, which, as you know, was formerly the seat of the Abbasid Caliphate, and Islam continued to function there for many long centuries.