The ruling on the statement: "Allah is the First"
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What is your opinion of the poet who says in the song that is broadcast:
Allah is the First, then I find my country
I see nothing wrong with this verse,If he says: Allah is the First,Meaning: Allah is before everything, and this includes religion; because religion is the right of Allah,When he says: Allah is the First,Meaning: Allah and His Shari'ah, and what is obligatory to believe in and what is obligatory to act upon, are before everything, and then after that comes the country. There is nothing wrong with this. However, I say that it is obligatory for a person not to be fanatical about his country just because it is his country. The Muhajirun migrated from their land, from Makkah, which is the best of the earth's regions, and they left their families and their wealth seeking the pleasure of Allah, and they did not become fanatical about the land. But one who becomes fanatical about his country because it is an Islamic country, not because he was born in it and lived in it, there is nothing wrong with that. As for one who becomes fanatical about the country because it is his country, that contains some of the tribalism of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance.
Allah is the First, then I find my country
I see nothing wrong with this verse,If he says: Allah is the First,Meaning: Allah is before everything, and this includes religion; because religion is the right of Allah,When he says: Allah is the First,Meaning: Allah and His Shari'ah, and what is obligatory to believe in and what is obligatory to act upon, are before everything, and then after that comes the country. There is nothing wrong with this. However, I say that it is obligatory for a person not to be fanatical about his country just because it is his country. The Muhajirun migrated from their land, from Makkah, which is the best of the earth's regions, and they left their families and their wealth seeking the pleasure of Allah, and they did not become fanatical about the land. But one who becomes fanatical about his country because it is an Islamic country, not because he was born in it and lived in it, there is nothing wrong with that. As for one who becomes fanatical about the country because it is his country, that contains some of the tribalism of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance.