There are extremes on both sides of this debate, ranging from “Nationalism is Kufr!” to those who say that country comes first and Ummah comes second.
Between these two is the position that the majority of Muslims scholars take globally. Nationalism is a man-made social construct, and like all man-made systems, we can take from it what is good and leave it what is bad.
Nations come and go, borders change, but in some way, we are all part of one nation or another. In the time of the Prophet ﷺ tribes were the dominant system of identity, but he did not abolish them, he came to put them into their appropriate context.
Loyalty to your tribe should exist within the boundaries of what is pleasing to Allah, and should never take precedence over loyalty to Allah or the religion that Allah sent to unify those who worship him.
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