Nationalism Vs. Islam - July 2019

NATIONALISM VERSUS ISLAM

Loving your country is of course part of Islam (especially if it's a Muslim country) but Nationalism is not part of Islam. And we have to love our country the way prescribed in Islam. Covering stadium with country's flag is Nationalism for example & it is not appreciated in Islam.

Today we have some self-proclaimed spiritual leaders in Pakistan who are aggressively promoting Nationalism. What has this silly sport of Cricket got to do with true spirit of Islam especially when most of the related activities in this sport are inspired by glamour and showbiz? But these spiritual leaders are shamelessly promoting all that also.

These self-proclaimed spiritual leaders claim that they love the teachings of Allama Iqbal (ra) but they cover up the truth very cleverly that Allama iqbal (ra) in fact wrote against Nationalism.

- by S Roman Ahsan.