Love Your Nation

zainab bala

zainab bala

Allah is sufficient.
The love of one's nation is not in reciting anthems and pledges. It is not in rising for the National flag or wearing National Colours. A true love for one's Nation lies in wishing for it the best you can wish for yourself. It is in striving to make it a model among Nations. It is in making it a haven of comfort and bless. It is in striving to make it a paradise on earth.

The essence of Nationhood is collective happiness. Loving your Nation therefore does not stop at taking care of your kith and kin, nor your brethren in faith. If your people are faithless, it is a part of loving them for you to guide them. Whatever veils them from guidance must be removed. Be it poverty, sickness, ignorance, fear or grief. Good councel is an aspect of love.
If you consciously love your Nation, you will do no such thing as cause religious upheavals, thereby disrupting the peace in the society.
If you love your Nation, you will not be amongst those who partake in political disturbance.

A healthy stable Nation provides calm for the heart which enhances creativity and provides an enabling environment for one to develop one's faith without threat or prosecution. Patriotism is also part of worship.
 
M

Musulmanin

Junior Member
:salam2:

Unfortunately patriotism sometimes is easily turned into " us against them" mentality.

Patriotism/Nationalism was a cause of Nazi genocides, communists atrocities, etc.

There is a plethora of examples in human history where unquestioned patriotism led to atrocities. You can even see muslim nationalists killing other muslims for nationalistic agenda.

One has to be careful not to cross a line between being a patriot to being an agressor/oppresor.

I don't see anything wrong being a patriot of a just nation.

:wasalam:
 
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