When people have a great civilization, they live in a
country or a place or an area or a continent, which happens to have
the upper hand in civilization during that era. They think
they're, they become full of themselves. They think we're from
here, wow, we've got this nationality. We happen to be from
this country. We happen to be from this ethnicity. We happen to be
from this particular color and so on and so forth. Allah says I was
the one who created you, and the ingredient that was used to create
you was the same man and woman, male and female, Adam and Eve.
That's all it was. (إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ مِنْ ذَكَرٍ وَأُنْثَى وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ ‌شُعُوبًا ‌وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا) And the reason why all of this has happened
was because of what the reason why all this occurred was because of
"ta'aruf". So that you may get to know one another. You may get
to know each other. Okay? So the reason why Allah (swt) created us
into tribes, and Allah created us into civilization is so we learn
about one another. The process that we should be undertaking is a
process of learning, and not the process of fighting and quarreling
and bickering and saying, I'm better, and he's better and she's
better. And the Messenger (pbuh), had told us ( لَا فَضْلَ لِعَرَبِيٍّ عَلَى أَعْجَمِيٍّ وَلَا لِعَجَمِيٍّ عَلَى عَرَبِيٍّ) some people say,
well, the Arabs and the Arab glory and the Arab society and the Arab
descent, the messenger (pbuh) said, there's no difference between
there's no virtue for an Arab over a non Arab, and there's no virtue,
and then the opposite end comes Turkish, Ottoman, Persian, and this
and that, and the Messenger (pbuh) he said, ( لَا فَضْلَ لِعَرَبِيٍّ عَلَى أَعْجَمِيٍّ وَلَا لِعَجَمِيٍّ عَلَى عَرَبِيٍّ) there is no glory
and virtue for an Arab over a non Arab, nor is there any glory and
virtue for a non Arab over an Arab and the messenger continued, and he
said, there is no glory, for a person that is dark skinned, then
up over a person who is light skinned. And a person who is light
skinned over a person who is dark skinned. Right now there's groups
out there that say, the black person is Lord, there is another
group out there that says the black person is the lowest ever the white
person is the Lord, right. And, or the white person is in effect, the
Lord rather, right. So Allah's Messenger told us there is no
difference between the black or white or brown or appeal or a
yellow or a rainbow. Everybody's the same. Except "illa bi
al-taqwa", except with the fear of Allah (swt). The criterion that is
given to us is the fear of Allah and this goes hand in hand with
this ayah as well, Allah continues, He says (إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ) the greatest of you,
and the most honourable of you, is going to be the one that is more
most fearful of you. So when you start to, to, because of the ego
that we have developed within ourselves, we happen to be from
this tribe, or in this country, and our culture, and our way, and our
manner and our our our. Right? Because of the ego that we have
found ourselves with all our lives, we we just cannot imagine life
without us being better than the other. And for some odd reason
every culture believes they're better than the other. Right? If
it's a Pakistani, they'll think that the Indians are this way. If
it's a person from Lahore, he'll think he's better than the one from
Karachi. If it's someone Karachi, you'll think he's better than the
one from Lahore if it's a Arab from Saudi Arabia, he'll think he's
better than the one from this town. And if it's the one from over
there, then you'll think he's better than the one from that town.
And if it happens to be from another country, then they'll think
they're better than a second one. And I don't want to offend any
countries. But this is a reality. That's a global reality. Right?
This is a reality. That's a global reality. People from North America
think they're better than the people from Europe, people from
Europe, they think they're more posh than the people from North
America and the fight just continues right? and Allah's
Messenger (pbuh), he said that there is no virtue over anyone, or
for anyone over anybody except with the fear of Allah (swt)