Mr lamin Darboe a Gambian resident in u.k Liecester city email me his take on sarr's article.Mr Darboe said he mail the letter to Sankareh some days ago but the editor did not publish his piece. he then mail me the article to post it for public reading.
   
  read along.
   
  I have never contributed to your paper before; I have a strong feeling that   Mr. Sarr need to be admonished for trumpeting the tune of tribalism in a well read media of yours.
   
  I have acknowledged my strong regard for Mr Samsideen Sarr since his book "Meet me in Conakry". However his extant piece on tribal politics exudes an obnoxious stench of tribal partisanship. Moreover it manifested   a total lack of respect for dead Muslim brothers which is unethical in Islam. Dr Saho is dead and cannot defend himself beyond the grave, and we are in no position to verify Mr Sarr's claim. His claim of rude encounter with Dr Manneh is at most speculative. In Islam it is abhorrent to talk ill of non-living brothers and thus is considered to be sinful. Allah subhannah wattallah warn us to be aware of speculation because it is no surrogate for truth; (sura naijmi verse 28). Also in sura (hujurat 49:12) Allah (ajja wajanllah) warns us against speculation, backbiting and slander with much vehemence. Backbiting is compared with eating the flesh of your dead brother. It is even more evil to slander your dead Muslim brother who is in no position to defend himself.
  I have some knowledge of Mr Sarr beyond his media image. I know his Dad and also his  fleeting teaching career;  there are some  skeletons in  his cupboard which  I would not discuss  because it is unbecoming of a Muslim to character assassinate others  especially your Muslims brothers. 
  Rasooullah (sallanllahu alaihe wasallam) was reported to have said something like “the property, blood and honour of a Muslim is sacred to another Muslim”, therefore do not dishonor each other.
  No one is perfect except Allah (ajja wajallah) and his Rasool (sallal lahu alahe wa sallam). I agree we all have failings and almost everyone backbite but to parade one's slandering prowess in the international media is rather an undesirable abomination.
   
  For seven years I have worked at the Treasury and the reminiscence of the fraternal environment, team consensus and tribal harmony that existed there still reverberate in my memory cells. The Doom and gloom of tribal politics and all its pedestrian overtures glaring in MR Sarr's piece smacks off mal-contention and utter frustration. It deciphers more of Mr Sarr’s enigma than Dr Manneh’s tribal effervescence. Mr Sarr should sought out with Manneh on the spot but choose to wait until now. A gallant soldier indeed; I hope not Don Quixote.
  More enigmatic is, how one distasteful encounter with an individual epitomizes the content of his character more so be the default character of a whole tribe. 
   
  I know this encounter with Dr Manneh was contextualized; the topical issues raised will be discussed by many others inshallah. However I have to admit, I failed to discern the perspicacity of enumerating the scars of tribal politics now. What is the benefit? Is it uniting, is it instructing; or is it virtuous
  Also a poignant whiff discernable from Mr Sarr's piece is his contempt for Suntu Ture. The comments exude arrogance which some times educated people do have for their peers. People with such intellectual malady have an inflated image of themselves and often think their intellect agility hovers over everyone else's’. This is an undesirable trait. 
   
  You know sometimes people think they are wise but they are otherwise. Rasoolullah was reported to have said something like this “anyone in whose heart there is a modicum pride will not enter paradise”. Allah buttresses this point in Surah 53:32.” so do not claim purity for selves. He knows best him who fees Allah and keep his duty to Him”.
   
  In no way I am alleging that Mr Sarr has the trait but incase he has semblance of such an esoteric predisposition; he must exorcise himself before it is too late. Imam Ghazalli in his monumental book (ihya ulum-i-deen), not only promulgated the ills of disputation but also the qualities one should possess if you want to engage in debate. You must not be scornful of your opponent, you must not be arrogant, intransigent and dogmatic; you must not   think your ideas are unarguable and thus refuse to accept the truth because it come from your opponent. Etc:
  Tribalism is obnoxious and abominable. No one will enter paradise as a result of his tribal or racial pigmentation (land, language or label). Any person whose internal dispensation has strong tribal inclination (we are all brothers) is likened to saitan because he was the first racist and also the first tribalist. To him the notion of superiority should be based on the constitution of a person. That is, he was made from fire and Adam was made from earth so he was superior. Allah (subhanna watallah) created everything and accordingly established the criteria for superiority.  Therefore, anyone who claim superiority base on his tribe is brethren of saitan.  We all know what befell saitan even though he use to be paragon of worship.
  I could not end this article without advising every Muslim reader or any reader for that matter to please read Ibn Kathir tafsir on Surat Al hujurat. That sura and beginning of sura a-nissa should be a universal manifesto. May Allah (subhanah wattallat) bless us all and forgive us our shortcomings.
   
   
  Thanks 
   
  Lamin Darboe.  Leicester. UK
   
   
   

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