Muslims' yearning for non-Muslims

 

The Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) said, "Surely you will follow the ways, of those nations who were before you, span by span and cubit by cubit (i.e. inch by inch) so much so that even if they entered a hole of a lizard, you too would follow them." (Sahih Bukhari)

  

 

The Hour does not come unless my people adopt every inch of the centuries-old traditions one by one. They said: “O the Messenger! As is in the case of Persians and Greeks?” The Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) replied: “Including those people who are like them.” (Sahih Bukhari)

 

 

"I swear to… that you will also follow in the footsteps of the nations that preceded you (Jews and Christians). (Tirmidhi Hadiths)

 

In the hadiths of our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace), it is stated that Muslim communities will yearn for the non-Muslim ones and imitate them. It is possible that this hadith points out the prevalence of ideologies and movements incompatible with the morality of Islam within the Muslim communities. Following the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the spread of radical nationalist movements, especially of the Arab countries, is an example of this situation. Radical nationalism is a movement against the morality of the religion that considers other nations as foes and demands a form of loyalty and love—which are actually legitimate feelings—to one’s nation to the extent of harming other nations. It is an aggressive ideology. According to the morality of the Qur’an, one’s love and respect to another is not based on one’s race, descent or material wealth but on his faith and fear for God. Believers are brothers, no matter from which race or nation they may be and with this conscience; they have to remain in solidarity.

Western ideologies that sneaked into the Islamic world is not limited to radical nationalism. At the beginning of the 20th century, other movements incompatible with the Islamic morality which originated in the West were introduced into the Islamic world by some people in Islamic countries. Some Muslims who blindly embraced these ideologies were deluded by these movements. This is one of the major reasons of the instability and chaos in a great part of the Islamic world that has been going for more than half a century. By God’s Will, when the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will come back to Earth, this situation will change and all Muslims will adhere only to the Qur’an and the Sunnah and have the peace, stability and security brought by the true morality of the religion.