Religion & Nation...one looks beyond boundaries, other contained in it. Which is greater ?

Boundaries? Even in my street we have 4 religious boundaries, I am a Muslim and celebrate Eid .. etc, In front of my house Mishra ji is Hindu , he celebrates Holi..etc, Next to him is a christian family, we see X'mas is celebrated there in grand way, Next to him is a Sikh family , Guruparab etc...,and an atheist next to him keeps on criticising everyone always , celebrates his birthday only,,,,But..

when India wins a cricket match , we all come together and celebrate it with full enthusiasm. Great is our Nation. and this is our religion.

Religion and Nations - both have different reasons and effects on the Society.

A religion has the cause that every body in the society should lead a good life and also he/she should get a good life after death too. Some really good and scientific religions also tell the way / path to reach the Ultimate Power of the Universe - the Almighty - the God.

While Nations Concept is developed due to Regional Ruler and Regional Societies and to protect their Regional Interests.

Love, Peace and Happiness to all,

Of course. Our religion almost demands thinking beyond, exploring what could be and assessing things on our own. We are mostly made up of free-thinkers that have come from other religions and accept that others have their own paths to follow that are different from us. Wicca is, in a very real way, a science; we use what works and discard that which does not work. We follow the facts and the truth to wherever it leads us and accept that truth, because we have no mandate to follow the directives of any one person or book, blindly. We question contradictions and things that make no sense and we do not accept "take it on faith" as an answer.

I think ultimately both have boundaries and no one is greater than the other.

Moreover what about the countries like india that have almost all the established religions.

,my friend nations are just of boundaries created by man whereas as u say religion sees every 1 of the world as family i.e all are friends and no 1 is enemy .

well, i think that none of them is greater........cuz both of them just divide people one divides the ppl on the basis of religion n the other on the basis of nationality.....!!

but still if u want to know which one is greater....then its nation cuz i think a person can leave his religion but leaving his nation would be a difficult thing to do.

hope my answer helped u!:)

Nation is greater

peace be upon u

i am a muslim

in islam ur submition to GOD ,, the complete submition,,, our loyality is be for our religion and its rules

of course respect the country we r living in and obey orders by the governer but when these orders r compatible with islamic rules

if they r against islamic rules we do not obey as best we can unless one be forced to do things he wasnot want to do , in this case GOD wil forgive him and punish the one who force him

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The religion of Islam is the acceptance of and obedience to the teachings of God which He revealed to His last prophet, Muhammad .

Muslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped but Him alone. He is the true God, and every other deity is false. He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes. No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes. In the Quran, God describes Himself:

Say, “He is God, the One. God, to Whom the creatures turn for their needs. He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none like Him.” (Quran, 112:1-4)

No one has the right to be invoked, supplicated, prayed to, or shown any act of worship, but God alone.

God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the Sustainer of everything in the whole universe. He manages all affairs. He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His creatures depend on Him for all that they need. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing. In a perfect manner, His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret, and the public and the private. He knows what has happened, what will happen, and how it will happen. No affair occurs in the whole world except by His will. Whatever He wills is, and whatever He does not will is not and will never be. His will is above the will of all the creatures. He has power over all things, and He is able to do everything. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent. In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad , we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than a mother to her child.1 God is far removed from injustice and tyranny. He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees. If someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him or her.

God is not Jesus, and Jesus is not God.2 Even Jesus himself rejected this. God has said in the Quran:

Indeed, they have disbelieved who have said, “God is the Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary.” The Messiah said, “Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord. Whoever associates partners in worship with God, then God has forbidden Paradise for him, and his home is the Fire (Hell). For the wrongdoers,3 there will be no helpers.” (Quran, 5:72)

God is not a trinity. God has said in the Quran:

Indeed, they disbelieve who say, “God is the third of three (in a trinity),” when there is no god but one God. If they desist not from what they say, truly, a painful punishment will befall the disbelievers among them. Would they not rather repent to God and ask His forgiveness? For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary, was no more than a messenger... (Quran, 5:73-75)

Islam rejects that God rested on the seventh day of the creation, that He wrestled with one of His angels, that He is an envious plotter against mankind, or that He is incarnate in any human being. Islam also rejects the attribution of any human form to God. All of these are considered blasphemous. God is the Exalted. He is far removed from every imperfection. He never becomes weary. He does not become drowsy nor does he sleep.

The Arabic word Allah means God (the one and only true God who created the whole universe). This word Allah is a name for God, which is used by Arabic speakers, both Arab Muslims and Arab Christians. This word cannot be used to designate anything other than the one true God.

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and to know more about islam here u r some recommended sites

http://quranexplorer.com/

http://islamtomorrow.com/

http://muhammad.net/

http://www.plaintruth.org/

http://www.islamunveiled.org/eng/index.p...

http://www.forsanelhaq.com/en/showthread...

Quran Miracles encyclopdia

http://www.55a.net/firas/english/

http://miraclesofthequran.com/scientific_index.htm...

may ALLAH bless u and guide u to the straight path and every body

religion is greater than a nation

I m very confused on the subject cited as question.