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As the tribe is a large extended family, the tribe provides its members with the natural benefits and social advantages that the family provides for its members, for the tribe is a secondary family. It is worth mentioning here that an individual may sometimes behave in a dishonourable manner that a family will not condone; yet because the family is relatively small in size, this individual will not be aware of its supervision. In contrast, individuals as members of a tribe cannot be free of its watchful eyes.
The code of ethics enforced by the tribe on its members is a kind of social education better and nobler than any school education. The tribe is actually a social school which people belong to from childhood, and are raised with ideals that take root and instinctively influence their behaviour in life as they grow older. Education and knowledge formally taught in schools gradually recede as individuals grow older, because they are aware that it was formal and compulsory, and because they are aware that they have been indoctrinated. As a natural social “umbrella” for social security, the tribe, pursuant to its social tribal conditions, provides its members with collective protection and security in addition to collective reparations and collective compensation for bodily injury and revenge. The blood tie is the prime factor in the formation of the tribe, but affiliation is also one of its components recede, leaving the tribe as a single social and physical unit, though it remains fundamentally a unit of blood and descent more than any other. |
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