The subject of an expression of homeland

Motherland

Mustafa Sadiq Al-Rafi’i said:

My love is in my tongue and in my blood

My heart glorifies her and my mouth prays for her

There is no good in one who does not love his country

Nor is there an ally of love if it is not an orphan

Homeland is that warm place whose beauty of sun, soil and water surpasses its beauty in any other spot in the world. It is the place whose air we breathe and in which our souls are refreshed. Homeland is another embrace similar to a mother’s embrace that surrounds us and makes us feel safe whenever life becomes difficult for us. In our homelands we lived the misery of childhood and it remained. In our memories as the most wonderful pictures of memories, and in the homeland we will grow old and live the most beautiful days of maturity and youth on its land, whose soil we would not exchange for the most expensive prices.

Love of the homeland is an innate nature deep within us that only those who are absent from it and consumed by nostalgia can truly understand, so they return to kissing its soil and breathing its air. Our noble religion has urged love of the homeland and loyalty to it. He said with a narration on the authority of Ibn Abbas in which he describes his love for Mecca:(What a pleasant country you have, and how beloved you are to me, and had my people not expelled me from you, I would not have lived in any other place) [A good hadith], although love of the homeland is not linked to religion or law, it is a love planted in our hearts since childhood, so how can a person neglect his land, when in his homeland he finds his dignity and elevation as he does not find it anywhere else?! This is what drives us to adhere to it and stand to protect it with all we can, and strive to develop it in all scientific, economic and social fields, each of us according to the scope of our knowledge and profession, and to preserve the cleanliness of its land and water, the purity of its environment and air, and our participation in voluntary campaigns that increase its development and beauty, so here it is. We plant a tree, there we clean a garden, and in that street we help a poor person, and in its schools and institutions we respect the regulations, laws and streets because the cooperation of the people of the country achieves its elevation and makes it protected from ambitions, feared among the nations, which is reflected in the reverence of its people wherever they go, so you see them with their heads held high, with lofty souls, full of pride. And pride in their country.