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Hospitals in Islamic Civilization

Imagine a nation where every hospital is free of cost irrespective to your status, caste, gender, religion, nationality. A multi-speciality hospital providing you a clothes, well furnished wards, delicious food, specialized doctors, that too free of cost. Not just this even giving the patient money and food as a compensation for being out of work during his hospital stay. Isn't it mind-blowing?? This is what hospitals were in the Islamic Civilization. In early medieval where Europe belief that illness is supernatural, uncontrollable, incurable. Muslims took completely different approach because of the saying of prophet Muhammadﷺ, “God has sent down the disease and he has appointed cure for every disease, so treat yourself medically”(¹) Mobile Dispensaries The first known Islamic care center was set up in a tent by Rufaydah al-Aslamiyah r.a during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammadﷺ. Famously, during the Ghazwah Khandaq, she treated the wounded in a separ...
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Questions to nationalism - a mini essay

 



Is it possible to produce an intellectual argument to justify patriotism/nationalism? What is the premise of putting one's nation before everything else? Is it that you live in that nation? Then why is patriotism limited to the nation? why not the entire earth? is it that your employment is based on that land? but people are employed throughout the earth again. Is skill, talent, or experience that employs you not or is it your nationality? If "nation" is derived from a colony where you belong then thinking on a bigger level our nation should be one, that's the entire earth. Furthermore, how does a nation hold an emotional volume in any heart? A mother feels for a child and vice versa because of the fact that she has birthed the child, because of the instinct of motherhood shared across almost all living beings, and because she has a set of expectations from that child. Same for the father. Every concept we love, we do so because it either fulfills some of our expectations or we fulfill some of its expectations. A man and his relationship with god, for example. Humans are inclined toward god because they get a sense of protection, a sense of care, and a sense of dependability. These expectations and their fulfillment make one love god, a god he cannot even prove to most. The love of a person for another person is motivated via the instinct of companionship, which again comes via the fulfillment of expectations, be it leisure, comical relief, financial assistance, or emotional dependence. The love between a husband and a wife is motivated by physical attraction, emotional dependence, the instinct for survival, and psychological validation. Of course, these aren’t the only concepts that define the love between them but these are at least the primary motivations on an extremely basic level. With every love comes responsibility, and without responsibility there is no love. The most selfless justification of responsibility is love. Now, when that is established what exactly does patriotism mean. Why am I only a patriot for a chunk of land and a group of people that I did not get to choose before I was born? Even if I got to choose why does it need patriotism. Why am I grateful to my soil but not the soil of Africa. Does that soil not sustain humans? Why is it that when I see a flag I have to stand and salute it and if I don’t I am a horrible person? It says everywhere that the nation and state are two different entities while it is the state that has decided the boundaries of a nation, the laws of a nation, and the governing of a nation, it also occupies the very land of the nation, any criticism towards the nation and the state holds you accountable and the nation must obey the state if wants to exist as a part of it but the state differentiates itself from the nation as well. If I am not standing for the national anthem the state decides that I deserve to be condemned. Then am I not respecting the state or the nation? Or is it that the concept of nation itself holds no concrete materialistic existence and it’s a mere conceptualization devised to gain control of the masses via emotion?

A nation may exist if it holds an objective code that every person in that place individually adheres to. Unlike the traditional state which follows moral laws and concepts devised by itself and has no direct or innate connection to people individually. Traditional nationalism is a weird attempt at altruism with geographical boundaries. The state must function via a framework that is individually connected to everyone, perhaps religion. 

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