were the utmost in their truthfulness, sincerity, loyalty, honest, mutual love for the sake of Allah (Glorified be He) and brotherhood for His sake. There was no difference whatsoever between an Arab and a nonArab, between the red and the black, between the rich and the poor or between the one from the east and the one from the west. Rather, they were all brothers loving each other for the sake of Allah, cooperating with each other in righteousness and piety, striving hard in the Cause of Allah and having endurance in the religion of Islam with no fear of the blame of a critic. They used to befriend each other for the sake of Islam, antagonize for its sake, love for its sake and dislike for its sake; and accordingly, Allah protected them against the plots of their enemies and decreed victory for them in all their striving spheres as He (Glorified be He) promised them in His manifest Book.
and (as for) the believers, it was incumbent upon Us to help (them).
O you who believe! If you help (in the cause of) Allâh, He will help you, and make your foothold firm.
However, after this great honor and victory granted by the Supporter (Glorified be He) to His believing servants from Arabs and others, we see a group of our people being deceived by the oblique principles and call to other than Islam as if they had not recognized the merit of Islam and what Islam had given their predecessors of dignity, honor, high magnificence and a strong society which Allah granted to the truthful followers of Islam to the point that their enemy, at one month's traveling distance, used to be frightened of them. They forgot all these glories, great dignity, and magnificent kingdom which Muslims obtained through Islam, and as a result, they started calling for gathering around and following Arab Nationalism and define it as gathering and unity to purify countries from the colonizing enemy, to achieve the common interests and to retain the stolen glory.
Those who call for Arab Nationalism have differed regarding its constituents: Some of them said that it consists of one's country, progeny and Arabic language. Others said that it only refers to the Arabic language. A third group said that it refers to the language accompanied with sharing pain and hopes. Another group has given different definitions. As for religion, according to the Nationalism leaders and the frank amongst them, it is not one of its elements, and many of them stated that religion has nothing to do with Nationalism and others said that it is an obligation to respect all the religions including Islam and other religions. The goal of this Nationalism, as understood from their statements, is to gather and unite against the enemies, to achieve the common interests as has been stated before, and undoubtedly, this is a noble purpose and a good aim.
If this is the purpose behind Nationalism, then in Islam there is more perfect and greater encouragement, call, and obligation to unite and cooperate to achieve victory for Islam, to protect it from the plot of the enemies and to achieve the common interests than that initiated by Nationalism. Moreover, it is wellknown to every soundminded person that unity and cooperation which stems from the hearts, belief in the validity of the purpose, soundness of the good result in this life and after death as being established in true Islam are greater than unity and cooperation in something innovated by mankind and was not supported by revelation from the heavens and whose consequence cannot be felt secure against in this life nor in the Hereafter. Furthermore, unity and cooperation resulting from belief in Allah, truthfulness in the relation with Him and with His servants are guaranteed victory and good outcome as understood from the previously mentioned verses, which is different from the unity and cooperation based on a preIslamic traditional idea, not established by the religion and no victory is guaranteed for it.
We mentioned all of this only to show the good intention to those callers to Nationalism and out of the desire to point out the reality to the seeker of the truth. However, whoever is acquainted with the situation of the nationalists and considers their statements, manners and actions, will know that there are other purposes for many of those calling for Nationalism known by whoever has the least insight of the reality and the situations of the society. These purposes include separating religion from the state, setting aside the Islamic rulings, keeping these rulings away from the society, replacing them
with different falsified manmade laws and giving unrestricted freedom to sexual instincts and to destructive doctrines, we ask Allah to make them and their purposes fail. Undoubtedly, colonization will dance out of joy for a call resulting in these goals and will support its existence and raise its level, even if it shows a different face from this one. The colonization will do this in order to keep Arabs away from their religion, to encourage them to become busy with their Nationalism, to call for it and to set aside their religion.
If anyone from the callers to Nationalism claims that religion is one of its constituents, he commits a mistake in the side of the nationalists and says about them what they did not say, because religion is in discordance with their foundations, upon which they have built Nationalism. This claim also contradicts their clear statements and opposes what they aim at of uniting Arabs with their different religions under the banner of Nationalism.
Therefore, there is a contradiction in the speech of the one who considers religion as a constituent of Nationalism, because he accepts religion sometimes and rejects it at other times, and this is because what he says about religion and its being a constituent of religion does not come out of creed and belief, but he just says it out of complementary to the followers of Islam or out of ignorance of the reality of Nationalism and its purpose. By the same token, this applies to the saying of the person who says that Nationalism serves Islam or supports it, because all these claims are far from the truth and reality. In fact, Nationalism opposes Islam, fights against it on its own ground and beautifies some of its traits to spread them and confuse people about them or they do that out of ignorance and imitation.