It is narrated by Abu Dawud that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said,** “He is not one of us who calls for 'asabiyyah, (i.e nationalism, tribalism , racism etc) or who fights for 'asabiyyah or who dies for 'asabiyyah.” **
And in another hadith, the Messenger of Allah (saw) referring to nationalism, racism, and patriotism said “Leave it, it is rotten”. [Muslim and Bukhari]
There are many examples in the Seerah where the Messenger of Allah (saw) had rebuked those who upheld nationalism. On one occasion a party of Jews conspired to bring about disunity in the ranks of the Muslims after seeing the Aus and Khazraj within Islam. A youth from amongst them was sent to incite remembrance of the battle of Bu’ath where the Aus had been victorious over the Khazraj, and he recited poetry to bring about division between them. As a result there was a call to arms. When the news reached the Messenger of Allah (saw), He (saw) said, “O Muslims, remember Allah, remember Allah. Will you act as pagans while I am present with you after Allah has guided you to Islam, and honoured you thereby and made a clean break with paganism; delivered you thereby from disbelief; made you friends thereby?” When they heard this they wept, and embraced each other. This incident clearly highlights how the messenger of Allah (saw) rebuked any forms of tribalism and nationalism. Allah (swt) then revealed the verses,
**“O you who believe! Fear Allah as He should be feared and die not except in a state of Islam. And hold fast together all of you to the rope of Allah, and be not divided among yourselves; and remember with gratitude Allah’s favours on you; for you were enemies and He joined your hearts in love, so that by His Grace you became brothers; and you were on the brink of the pit of fire, and He saved you from it. Thus Allah makes His signs clear to you that you may be guided.” [3: 102-103] **
‘Rabbee zidnee`ilmaa’
My Lord! Increase me in knowledge.[20:114]
The Prophet (sallallaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said:
“Whoever sets out on a path to seek knowledge, Allaah will make easy his path to Paradise.”
[Saheeh Muslim]
On a personal note, I think you should have also included “Nationalism” in brackets in your title (since many people will not show much interest if they just see “asabiyyah”)
eemo, youve quoted a HADITH which prohibits Nationalism. Ok supposing Pakistan is attacked by India, should we muslims in Pakistan defend our lands from the Indian enemy or do we just let them take over thinking that there is a Hadith which says there should be no Nationalism ? In that case let the Indians kill our people, destroy our culture, our religion, our languages etc. Good example would be Bosnia which was carved out of Yugoslavia, thousands of Muslims were murdered by the Serbs, it was absolutely essential that a majority Muslim nation be created. Those mulsims died for Islam and for their culture, they now have their own country Bosnia.
Fact is there are hundreds of different interpretations of hadiths, there are many 'fake' hadiths, there are many schools of thought... who is right and who is wrong?? Only Allah (swt) knows.
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** there are many 'fake' hadiths, there are many schools of thought... who is right and who is wrong?? Only Allah (swt) knows.**
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Scholars have done a good job of sorting out the "fake" hadiths from the "real" hadiths.
Secondly, The none of the 4 Schools of thought claims that it is right and the others are wrong. They agree on most issues. Their 'aqeedah (belief) is the same. They all are right.
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Originally posted by Dil he Pakistani: eemo, youve quoted a HADITH which prohibits Nationalism. Ok supposing Pakistan is attacked by India, should we muslims in Pakistan defend our lands from the Indian enemy or do we just let them take over thinking that there is a Hadith which says there should be no Nationalism ? In that case let the Indians kill our people, destroy our culture, our religion, our languages etc. Good example would be Bosnia which was carved out of Yugoslavia, thousands of Muslims were murdered by the Serbs, it was absolutely essential that a majority Muslim nation be created. Those mulsims died for Islam and for their culture, they now have their own country Bosnia.
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why does this hadith stop you from defending your borders? this hadith is there to tell "Muslims" that there should be NO nationalism among Muslims (Muslims should not divide themselves on "nationalism" basis). Muslims are (supposed to be) ONE nation.
May Allah SWT guide us all towards right and help us follow the right
why does this hadith stop you from defending your borders? this hadith is there to tell "Muslims" that there should be NO nationalism among Muslims (Muslims should not divide themselves on "nationalism" basis). Muslims are (supposed to be) ONE nation.
You are contradicting yourself! Your stating that the hadith means there should only be one nation! That means we should not be DEFENDING our borders of our existing nations. If we followed this interpretation than there would be no Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Egypt, Sudan, Syria etc and in times of war they should not be defending there country's borders.
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Originally posted by Dil he Pakistani: ....You are contradicting yourself! Your stating that the hadith means there should only be one nation! That means we should not be DEFENDING our borders of our existing nations. If we followed this interpretation than there would be no Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Egypt, Sudan, Syria etc and in times of war they should not be defending there country's borders.
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you are mixing geographical nations with religious nations. also, if you read the hadith carefully, it says "who fights for asabiyyah", it does not include "who fights to save his nation", "land", etc.
take MQM for example, JSQM, or PPI (all nationalistic movements) don't start political discussion here please, they intend to fight for their "national" rights (for whatever reasons, whoever started it, whichever way). so these movements will be considered as "nationalistic" (dividing Muslims based on nationalism )
May Allah SWT guide us all towards right and help us follow the right
The hadith in relation to asabiyyah is simply stating that any form of nationalism is haraam.
The question of whether muslims should defend their land and their honour is a separate issue.
The muslim shouldnt confuse the 2 issues.
The muslim has been ordered by allah(swt) to protect his land and his honour in his capacity as a muslim, and not in his capacity as a Pakistani, or Iranian, Jordanian etc etc.
Thus when the kafir enter the islamic or muslim land he should be repelled with prejudice because he is an open enemy.
In truth the disbelievers are an open enemy to you. Surah An-Nisaa:101
Yaar, what is 'Nationalism'? it means "Devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation."
Now from eemos post "And in another hadith, the Messenger of Allah (saw) referring to nationalism, racism, and patriotism said "Leave it, it is rotten". [Muslim and Bukhari]"
which means there should not be any seperate Muslim nations. Therefore, we should not be defending our borders.
As for the MQM argument thats a seperate issue altogether.
eemo, you are contradicting your argument. Earlier you stated that Muslim nations should defend themselves against the kafir, than you state that there should not be any nationalism, again I ask you about the scenario if Pakistan is attacked by India; If we are patriotic and fight for pakistan that makes us nationalists (look at my definition), that means we are going against the Hadith which you have stated means there should be no Nationalism. You cannot have it both ways.
At the end of the day all Hadiths have to be judged on their authenticity and their interpretations. In this case its the latter.
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Originally posted by Dil he Pakistani: ...I ask you about the scenario if Pakistan is attacked by India; If we are patriotic and fight for pakistan that makes us nationalists (look at my definition)
You can fight for Pakistan as "homeland to Muslims". You should fight to defend your homeland and not to retain the "Pakistani" ID.
*that means we are going against the Hadith which you have stated means there should be no Nationalism. You cannot have it both ways. *
Islam permits 'nations' based on religion but prohibits 'nationalism (geographical)' AMONG Muslims since MUSLIM is already an UMMAH. So there is no need of further dividing UMMAH based on "nationalism".
I don't know why you find it contradictory. The "nationalism" which is condemned is the one used to discriminate but not the one which is used to "identify".
At the end of the day all Hadiths have to be judged on their authenticity and their interpretations......
Yes, true.
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May Allah SWT guide us all towards right and help us follow the right
*Originally posted by Changez_like: *
**You can fight for Pakistan as "homeland to Muslims". You should fight to defend your homeland and not to retain the "Pakistani" ID.
Islam permits 'nations' based on religion but prohibits 'nationalism (geographical)' AMONG Muslims since MUSLIM is already an UMMAH. So there is no need of further dividing UMMAH based on "nationalism".
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Fighting for your homeland means defending your Religion, lands and your Culture and is a form of nationalism. There are 100's of languages, 100's of different cultures, how do you envisage all of these people living in just one nation ? ... people wont understand each other, they would have different foods, they would have different cultural identities etc... Yes, Islam is the unifying factor which bonds all of these people, BUT they do not need to Discard their cultural identities, do away with their nations borders, just because of some scholars interpretation of the hadith which States ALL NATIONALISM is prohibited.
One example I would like to talk about is the partition of India... ie East & West Pakistan.. It was not only Islam which was the driving force which led to the creation of these homelands, it was also the cultural aspirations of millions who felt alienated in a Hindu dominated society. What occured in East pakistan was the situation was doomed to failure, as there was a lack of Governance due to the clash of languages and differences in culturally and politically based ideologies between East and West.. this led to war amongst the Muslims and eventually to the creation of Bangladesh.. The point im trying to make here is that a single unified nation to unite all Muslims will never be feasible.. It never worked in West and East Pakistan so how on earth will it work elsewhere.
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One example I would like to talk about is the partition of India... ie East & West Pakistan.. It was not only Islam which was the driving force which led to the creation of these homelands, it was also the cultural aspirations of millions who felt alienated in a Hindu dominated society
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cant agree with you their brother. i would need some hard-hitting facts to be convinced that the conflict arose due to the driving force of islam.
I would be inclined to say that the british used their age old idealogy, applied colonialism - hence a perfect portrayal of "divide & conquer". Hence the remnants of much british culture in both the Pakistani and Indian soceities. (education curriculum, constitution , etc etc).
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this led to war amongst the Muslims and eventually to the creation of Bangladesh.. The point im trying to make here is that a single unified nation to unite all Muslims will never be feasible.. It never worked in West and East Pakistan so how on earth will it work elsewhere.
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Such a nation , based on the bond of islam existed up until 1924. It was only when Attaturk came along and secularised Turkish society that it fell apart. But that could be attributed down to many things.
Point is; in the case of Pakistan and in many other cases, the emotions of the muslims were played with and they jumped in like lemmings.
Its the same happening in Palestine today, the people dont realise that calling for a palestinian state may solve their problems in the short term but in the long-term the country will suffer. Their Jihadi energies are being used in entirely the wrong way, and theyre blind to this deception.
The palestinian state will only serve as a buffer zone between saudi arabia and israel. Should a war occur between Saudi and Israel in the future it is the Palestinians that will suffer.