Are the following words, "My hope is that God be pleased with me and grant me life to support His precious religion, for I would not live if my concern were not the concerns of one devoted to God and the homeland. My hope is that my Lord will have mercy on me and take me by the hand. My hope is that He will admit me to His Paradise, where my eyes will find comfort. My hope is to purify my intention for God, to perform deeds that please Him, that He may rejoice when He meets me. My devotion to my religion has given me life as if my soul were in my body, and my love for my Lord has inspired in me love for the good of humanity. And my joy in the light fills my heart with radiance through Muhammad, the master of the prophets, by the Generous One who has always pleased me," sound from a Sharia perspective and free from ambiguity?
There is no objection to most of this anthem, but a Muslim takes pride in his Islam and his loyalty to Allah and to the Islamic religion. If his homeland is Islamic, then the loyalty to Islam is of greater importance and wider scope than one's particular homeland. Some scholars point out that connecting the homeland to Allah with the conjunction "wa" (and) might be minor (polytheism) if it is done to exalt the homeland. Also, the phrase "my ishq for my religion" should be replaced with "my love for my religion," because ishq (passionate love/infatuation) is often used for caprice, whereas a Muslim loves his religion, adheres to it, and detests returning to disbelief.
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