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Love of country is a requirement of faith. Man’s love and oneness with his place of birth and residence is a natural process. The expression of great love for Makkah al-Mukarmah in the blessed hadiths of the Prophet ï·º is proof of this patriotism. Pure love for something requires a practical decision of priorities If a person is in love with a desired place or thing, there are preferences and preferences.
Let me start with Iqbal’s poems where he says:
In this age, May is bigger, Jam is bigger, and Jam is bigger
The butler styled pleasure and vestam
A Muslim also built his Haram and
Disgusted by civilization
Among these new gods, the greatest is the motherland
The veil that belongs to him is the shroud of religion
The current ideology of nationalism is being used by Western powers as a weapon in other words, they want to achieve the long standing dream that they could not achieve through the crusades through nationalism. The colonial forces have succeeded to a large extent in breaking the nation of Islam to gain priority therefore, patriotism, whether based on color and caste or on the basis of regional demarcation, isolates people from each other and makes them lustful.
The individual is connected to the nation, nothing alone
There is a wave in the river and nothing outside the river
Be aware of your true nature
There is a reduction but the example is also the end of the sea
Faith is the capital of individuals to build a nation
This is the power that is the destiny of the nation
Nationalism began in the West after the French Revolution in 1789. The famous nationalist John Jacques Rousseau insisted that a person should be most related to his home and country He believed that the individual should be the center of love and loyalty of the group and the homeland of humanity. And strongly opposed to commitment to the social system It is clear from the writings of Western authors that they use nationalism, language, country and race as a basis for unity. Therefore, nationalism has become a vehicle to play with people’s emotions, mobilize armies, create aggression against neighboring countries, expansion, murder, corruption, oppression and coercion.
But in contrast, Islam has its own permanent system of thought. It is based on the practical, political, collective and spiritual life of each other. The basis of the unity of the Islamic nation is one It is based on an international concept and it is formed on the basis of faith. That is why Allama Iqbal called religion as backbone.
The nation comes from the religion, you are not the religion
There is no mutual attraction, not even companionship
Then in another place he says:
The rest is the harmony of people with religion
Religion is wounded, the congregation is the nation if the builder
He did not get water from Zamzam-e-Milat
New forms of atheism are born
When different nations come together in a special place or center with their natural and proper constitution and arrangement, a community comes into existence This is the reason why the Holy Quran has called community as the main foundation of national life and The greatest gift of Allah Almighty to human beings It is a blessing and a mercy. He said: Hold on to the rope of Allah all together and do not fall into divisions, and remember the blessing of Allah that you were enemies to each other, He created discord in your hearts and through his blessing you became brothers. (Al-Imran: 103)
In modern times, people have been affected by nationalism (or patriotism) and have seriously violated the relationship of brotherhood.
In the discourse of politics, homeland is something else
There is something else about the homeland in the prophecy
Nations where you are in competition
The purpose of commerce is to conquer
God’s creation is divided into nations by her
The nationalism of Islam is rooted in it
Politics is devoid of truth
The home of the weak is plundered
This idol is a carved civilization
Extortion is the religion of the Prophet
Let me also explain here that patriotism and nationality are almost synonymous with modern Western thinking. The reason why Iqbal rejected the political concept of patriotism was based on his suspicion of the western ideology of nationalism. He thought that the status of a political system of nationality definitely includes non-human values ​​cut off from another human group. And unnecessary conflicts are formed which sometimes lead to the loss of precious human lives and incessant destruction They saw this system as a very lethal western tactic especially for the Islamic world and when the Arab countries helped the British in against the Turks, they believed that patriotism. And the western concepts of nationhood are proving to be more harmful than poison to Muslims. of the world is correct and the western concept of nationality is correct.
He writes about this in his article. I have used the word Millat in the sense of nation. There is no doubt that this word is used in Arabic, especially in the Qur’an, in the sense of Shariah and religion, but there are many testimonies in Arabic, Persian and Turkish today that show that the nation is also used in the sense of Let’s go on. The nation of “Rizal” is called Jamaat.
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