Sheik Abdul-Aziz Ibn Baaz Quotes
There is no doubt also, that the call to nationalism is a call to transgression, pride and arrogance, since nationalism is not a divinely revealed way of life …. Muslims are a single body and a single structure; each part supporting the other and each part feeling the pain that the other parts are suffering.
The last clause refers to his belief that since the Prophet did not sanction or endorse nationalism, it is not desirable. It illustrates one of the difficulties the political rulers of Saudi Arabia have in defining themselves and their nation amidst a religious movement that not only transcends nationalism but sees it as undesirable and anti-Muslim. This view is not held by many more modern Muslim leaders.
Sheik Abdul-Aziz Ibn Baaz, Supreme Moslem religious authority of Saudi Arabia, The Evils Of Nationalism (Nuqdul-Qawniyyatul Arabiyyah)
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This quotation was used by Aga Kahn III in his famous speech to the League of Nations, October 6, 1937. It speaks of the unity of the Muslims, Jews and Christians from an Islamic scholar of the 13th Century.
