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As I'm al-Iqam

what I'm Allahi over again.

The concept of nationalism is one that a lot of people have spoken about in the last hundred years or so and questions have

arisen is nationalism is it un-Islamic can you be a member of the nation state

and still be a member of the uma 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 Kofur, a type of shirk, a type of haram, sin to be a part of.

And of course that is extremism because in 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 uma 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 and only goes back a hundred two hundred years it's a very recent phenomenon 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 a 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 Jahidi Islam, the tribes existed and our

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