Message to the People of the Gulf:

There are hands working to snatch you away from Tawḥīd and Islām to disbelief and atheism. From chastity and virtue to degeneracy and depravity. From love of Allāh and His Messenger and love of Īmān and the Believers to love of disbelief and the disbelievers, and polytheism and the polytheists. They desire from you the abolition of loyalty and disloyalty [for Tawḥīd and its people] so that the favours of Allāh upon you cease and you return to the state of fear and hunger.

Remember how the situation of our ancestors used to be in the Gulf and the [Arabian] peninsula, of hunger, drought and fear and how they used to migrate and travel to cities due to famines and fear.

Allāh the Exalted said: “If you are grateful, I will give you increase, but if you disbelieve, then indeed My punishment is severe.” (14:7). And in the ḥadīth: “O Allāh, I seek refuge in you from the cessation of your bounty, the change of well-being [You have granted me], your sudden revenge and from all things that anger You.”

Remember the statement of Allāh, the Exalted: “If only the people of the townships had believed and shown piety, We would have opened up for them blessings from the sky and the earth, but they rejected [My message], so We took them [with retribution] for the deeds they used to earn.” (7:96).

Remember Who is the one who brought out for us the blessings of the earth (petroleum), and gave us sufficiency so as not to be in need of people? So let us be grateful to Allāh, and let us establish His Tawḥid, His Sharīʿah and let us beware of the people of corruption, deviation (atheism) because they are the cause of the ending of favours and their replacement with fear and hunger.