antiobl, PakistaniAbroad, xguru
Identity has nothing to do with ID cards etc, Identity is how you think, your ideals, something that unites people who share the same opinion on their identity.
A Pakistani Christian can have differing views on core matters with a Muslim from Pakistan whereas it doesn't matter whether a Muslim is from palestine to indonesia there is no difference in the core issues.
The Islamic identity is an ideological identity it is not a religious or nationalistic identity. An Ideology has a specific viewpoint on life which all the adherents of the ideology share. In Islam it is the viewpoint of Halal and Haram, in capitalism it is Benefit and Loss.
Nationalism is the lowest form of thought, it exists in animals and birds that guard a territory. It is divisive. It unites only when there is a threat which is why there is always a 'threat from India' and a threat from Pakistan in India. In America there is a threat from terrorists and before this there used to be the threat from the communists.
To simplify this for you, if a group of people that didnt get along lived together in a house and somebody threw a brick through the window all of them would go to see who attacked them.
As RasulAllah (saw) said in words to this effect that the one who calls for nationalism is not one of us and he (saw) also said that the one who calls for nationalism is like the dung beetle.
When you say there is no Ummah then you are standing as an opponent against Allah (swt) and RasulAllah (saw).
O you who believe, fear Allah as He should be feared, and die not except in a state of Islam. And hold fast all together by the rope of Allah and be not divided among yourselves.” [TMQ Al-e-Imran: 102- 103]
“This is a letter written from Muhammad, the Messenger, the Prophet of Allah to the Believing Muslims from Qura'ish and of the people of Yathrib and all that followed them and performed Jihad with them, they are one Ummah to the exclusion of all others.”
He (saw) said that the Muslim is the brother of a Muslim.
Even if we begin to entertain this false 'pakistani' identity. How does the idea 'Pakistani' solve any problems? what is the 'pakistani' economic system? what are pakistani sciences? there's no such thing.
Does disagreeing with a policy formed by the govt make someone a traitor? If it doesn't then why were protestors locked up and beaten for protesting against what is happening in Iraq. If it does then everyone on the opposition bench is a traitor. Even Busharraf himself is a traitor for opposing the govt and removing it.
