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Our nation is only Islam. For the strongest and most genuine bond and nationhood of Arabs, Turks, Kurds, Albanians, Circassians and Lazs is nothing other than Islam. As for now, due to minor negligence, the foundations of
1 طوائف ملوك
are laid, and through the revival of racism from the Age of Ignorance (Jahiliyyah), which died one thousand three hundred years ago, fitnah is ignited. And we saw it happen…
1 (Tawâif Mulûk: The emergence of the national identities that occurs when a great empire collapses, as seen in the minor nations that arose from the empire of Alexander the Great and the rulers of those regions into which the Arab empire in Spain fragmented.) (Tr.)