Reconciling two opposing factions

Question

Question: In a village there is a dispute over two issues: one concerns talaq and the other riba (interest). Because of these two issues two parties (factions) have formed, and this has been going on for six or seven years now. Many attempts have been made to reconcile them, and many ʿulama have also tried, but no settlement is reached. One party does not accept what the other party says. Each party speaks ill of the other, and in the middle of the settlement a quarrel breaks out.

Answer

This disease is very widespread: people in great numbers are caught up in it and find no way of escaping it. If reconciliation can be achieved even without debating these two issues, then too they should be reconciled. For example, one party says that taking interest (riba)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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