This audio is brought someone who's Muslim how it is that someone whose Muslim can function within a non-Muslim country as a

and be considered a patriot of that country right you know, is that possible?

Can that, can that, can those allegiances sit side by side?

So can you be a Muslim and an American?

Well, I mean, obviously you can be like a Muslim and an American? Well I mean obviously you can be like a Muslim and an

American but can you have that kind of like the allegiance to both is that? Well it was

Ted Cruz who said I'm a Christian first then I'm an American.

Imagine if a Muslim said that, right?

Absolutely.

No, look, there's nothing absolutely nothing in our religion that teaches us that we cannot be good patriotic citizens in a non-Muslim land.

Just sort of, if we tie the previous topic that I just mentioned with this topic with this idea of citizenship and so on so forth and residing peacefully

with non-Muslims the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said and this is an authentic narration, it's very powerful.

He said, don't fight with the Abasinians if they don't fight with you.

Don't fight with the Turks if they don't fight with you.

And this is a theme in the Quran that fight against those who fight against you and that God does not

prohibit you from having a good relationship, from being friendly towards those that don't

fight you. So this idea of people that don't fight you,

you should always look for peace, you should look for a situation where you can have peaceful relationships and so on and so forth.

Not only that, but patriotism, this concept of being a good citizen

wherever you are. The Muslims functioned as a minority in Abyssinia very well in

the life of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and they were able to

lived under a Christian majority and they were fine with it.

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