Is it Haram to feel attached to a Nation? What is the concept of nationalism in the view of Islam? What are the rulings on this? Is it Islamic or un-islamic? Can a middle path be adopted? When and towards whom should my loyalty be? Shaykh Yasir Qadhi extrapolates answers and gives us answers.
Tribalism, nationalism and swearing of allegiances are topics that bring out a sense of conflict in our mind and we get into a conundrum of sorts whilst choosing between this and our faith. In this case, a middle path of moderateness is advised.
The speaker discusses the idea of nationalism as a shift from one side to the other, with the majority of Muslims on the far right, while the middle-aged
the majority of Muslims on the far right. The speaker explains that the nation state is a modern construction that has multiple uses and functions, and that loyalty to the nation state is crucial to achieving success in modernity. The speaker also mentions the importance of the "right and wrong" concept in achieving success in modernity and encourages those interested in the class to sign up.
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Salam Alaikum, warahmatullahi wabarakatuh the concept of nationalism is one that a lot of people
have spoken about in the last 100 years or so. And questions have arisen is nationalism Islamic? Is
it an Islamic, can you be a member of the nation state and still be a member of the oma. And of
course you have, you know, as usual, you have extremist positions on on both sides, and you have the
moderate position, or the middle position that the majority of the Muslims have embraced. The fact
of the matter is that there are extremist voices on the far left, and on the far right, there are
those who say that nationalism and the existence of nation states is itself a type of corporate type
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of shift that type of how long seemed to be a part of and of course, that is extremism. Because at
the end of the day, this is a human construct that you can take the good and reject the bad from the
other side, you have those that say that the nation state and the loyalty to the nation state should
Trump each and every other type of loyalty, that you are a member of the nation state first, and
then a member of the second. And that's the other side. And as usual, Islam is the middle path. And
the position that pretty much all of the mainstream scholars of the world have embraced is that the
nation state is a modern construct, it only goes back 100 200 years, it's a very recent phenomenon.
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And as we know, nations come and go borders, you know, they keep on changing. And so the nation
state is a state that has a certain uses or certain functionality. And it is useful to be a part of
In fact, in the modern world, everybody at some level has to be a part of some nation state, even
those that choose to abandon that identity had to have had it in the first place in order for them
to abandon it. And just like the tribes of jacadi, Islam, the tribes existed, and our Profit System
came not to demolish the tribes, not to get away with them. But to make sure that tribalism does not
Trump the more important loyalty and that is loyalty to Allah and His messenger and to the oma
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tribalism in and of itself can be held on and it can be made head on. And our prophet SAW Selim was
a member of the oroshi tried, and he was proud of this fact till he died, that one of the last in
the battles that he fought, he said, and I've been voted if I am the grandson of Abdullah potty, and
this is a statement that signifies Look, I know who my grandfather is, he is the leader of the
orange. And the blessings of the forest are something that are well known in the books of our
history. And the fact of the matter is that the same can be applied to the nation state, that nation
states can have positives, and they can be turned into something negative. And as long as the Muslim
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understands that this nation state is a social construct that has its positives, and I can be a
member of it, a productive a useful member of it, but that the nation state can be right and wrong,
unlike Allah subhana wa Tada. So when the nation is wrong, my loyalty cannot be to the nation in
this wrong, and I have to criticize and cut off from this wrong that the nation state does. That
doesn't mean that you become a traitor to the system. That doesn't mean that you do things that are
an Islamic, but it means you speak the truth, and that you fear none other than Allah subhana wa
Tada. And therefore, in this class that I'll be teaching, called no doubt, we will talk in more
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detail about the convergence or divergence be possible over that. And at times the fact that it does
contradict the oma state versus the nation state and how it is possible. I'll be at a times there
are some gray areas and there's some difficulty nobody's denying that. But in essence, it is
possible it is high that it is completely reasonable to be a God fearing, loyal member of the oma a
mud just a pious person. And at the same time, somebody who is a member of a nation state, even if
that nation state and the oma might appear to be at clash at times and whatnot. There are ways to
work around this there are ways to demonstrate that you can be a righteous Muslim, and this is
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something that we'll talk about in more detail using Quranic verses incidents from the Sierra, the
Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa send them to demonstrate that it is not just something
that is possible. It is a lived and experienced reality for millions and millions of Muslims living
in the Western world. So I encourage all of you if you're able to take this class, no doubt, sign up
to it at WWW dot att dot o RG. This is your brother in Islam. He has all the Salaam Alaikum
warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
