Motives of racism and addressing them in light of the Prophet’s Sunnah

Abstract

This research deals with an important topic that humanity has suffered from since ancient times and to this day, which is the topic of hateful racism. This research came to explain the concept of racism - whose proponents believe that there is distinction between people because of gender, color, nation, tribe, or Other than that, and an explanation of its most important motives, some of which are rooted in human understanding and thought, and some of which are for psychological and social reasons.

The research also touched on how the Prophetic Sunnah addresses the dilemma of racism, as the Prophetic Sunnah provided a number of effective solutions to reduce and eliminate it, by evaluating ideas and reforming concepts, or by imposing punishments on those who claim and promote the idea of ​​racism. To bring humanity together on a clear, comprehensive and stable basis, which is the unity of human origin.

The significance of this research lies in its treatment of a crucial and highly sensitive issue—one of the major dilemmas facing the world and afflicting humanity today: the scourge of racism. This phenomenon drives the fragmentation of societies based on race, color, language, nationality, and other factors, serving as a primary cause of the erosion of social cohesion within nations. Consequently, this study aims to diagnose the root causes and drivers of racism and to propose a range of effective solutions—grounded in the Prophetic methodology and the purified Sunnah—to curb and eradicate it, whether by rectifying misconceptions or by enacting punitive measures to deter it.