Democracy is a system where people are counted but not weighed. - Muhammad Iqbal

[Iqbal elaborated that nationalism came into conflict with Islam] only when it begins to play the role of a political concept and claims to be a principle of human solidarity demanding that Islam should recede to the background of a mere private opinion and cease to be a living factor in the national life. ... In majority countries, Islam accomodates nationalism, for there Islam and nationalism are practically identical, in minority countries it is justified in seeking self-determination as a cultural unit.

Would we have played with our lives for nothing but worldly gain? If our people had run after earth's goods and gold,
Need they have smashed idols, and not idols sold?

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the warp and woof of our conscious experience.