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SERVICE TO UMMAH
1:25:55 2023-07-13 1643

All the adherents of [slam are the members of one ummah. Even without any consanguineous affinity there is a religious brotherhood among them. Despite the differences of color, race, language, and region, every member of this brotherhood has his rights. Whether he is a relative or not, neighbor or not, laborer or a craftsman, businessman or industrialist, educated or illiterate, acquainted or a stranger, his rights arc secure. Nobody could rob him of these rights. These rights include solicitude, love, sympathy, civility and co-operation towards him.

On the Day of Judgement Allah will lessen the hardships of the man who lessens the hardships of a believer in this world. Allah will ease in this world and the hereafter the troubles of the man who provides redress to a man in troubles. He who covers the private parts of a Muslim, will be covered by Allah in this world and the Hereafter. Allah remains helpful to the man as long as he is helpful to others.

This tradition highlights the returns of mutual help. Islam has given importance to this kind of mutual help as it looks at the whole Ummah as an organic whole. The entire body feels the pain suffered by a part and tries to remedy it.

 

THE CONCEPT OF UMMAH AND NATIONALISTIC FEELINGS

One doubt may arise here. The prominence given to Ummah and the importance attached to its welfare may lead to the emergence of nationalistic tendencies. It is very dangerous. There is no doubt that nationalistic tendencies preserve national identity and safeguard its interest to a greater extent but they give rise to bigotry and narrow-mindedness too. Not only does a man think in terms of promoting the interest of his own country, he does it sometimes at the cost of other countries. Nationalism widens the gulf between the countries. The clash of interests begets rivalry and raises the walls of enmity. We could not appreciate it if the Islamic concept of Ummah encouraged nationalistic tendencies.

 

It is a baseless doubt and it has no relevance with the Islamic concept of Ummah. Encouragement of mutual help in a community or a group will never promote bigotry. Its moral upbringing demands that its civility could never be a hindrance in its sympathy towards others or other societies. A man could be sympathetic simultaneously towards his family, tribe and fellow-countrymen. In the same way he could be sympathetic towards his compatriots and also be equally concerned with the entire mankind.

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