 You know what it is, of course you guys do, I mean you guys have your TV's on, opening live on Facebook and you guys can go check us out right there but we're coming to you live from the holy city of Karbala of course with your favorite show and your favorite host Ahmed Ali. But tonight we are talking about something very great, something very influential both on the personality on and on the mentality of an individual. You're going to find out my entire nation, nation of hashtag LNTO but to find out but let's go check out what's trending and we'll be back very very short. Pusala versus Cristiano Ronaldo or should I say versus Bale or should I say versus the Savage who kicked him out of the game early on Sergio Ramos. I mean this guy had to bring Moussala down to end the game when he came out when he went out the game was done but you know but that bicycle kick was deadly that bicycle kick killed it that's it ended it but if you guys are watching the game it was actually a live game so my condolences my deepest condolences to those who are fans of Liverpool and congrats Real Madrid 13 games only five times Liverpool one but you know life goes on hopefully next year you guys can win it but another interesting topic that the Middle East is facing or especially Iraq is facing for the first time or maybe we'll face the tropical cyclone Mekunu now this is a storm that hit Oman on Saturday as a category 3 hurricane equivalent to a storm now dumping the two years worth of rain this is crazy it went to Yemen killing more than 30 people sorry five people but 30 people are missing so hopefully they can reunite with their families but hopefully doesn't reach about a hundred miles per hour a hundred miles is like a hundred and less than 160 kilometers per hour that's crazy but wow I mean you know hopefully hopefully everyone can you know recover from that and no severe damage to anyone but let's go and jump into tonight's topic but after this very short break when you're born in a country let's say France for instance your French no duh but if your parents are originally from French from France then you're fully French again no duh but if you're born somewhere else or your parents are from somewhere else and you come you immigrate to France then you have French and again no duh but being French and living in France you can say that you're pretty much a patriot towards that country towards France now if you were asked you know where you're from or people ask you where your friend Raphael typical French name you stand out proudly and say that I am French or you're French now that's something that you're proud of you know being a patriot of your country as soon as someone and asks you the question you don't hesitate I'm from that country I'm from that country you know you need to hold that thought in your mind but it feels good when someone actually holds the name of their country wherever they go you know because the country and it shows everyone that you're interacting with or telling that your country has done a lot for you it made you grow but we have on the other hands some of those who immigrated to the West when they're asked where they're from some might hesitate and say a different country because they feel like that country hasn't done anything to them and hasn't provided them with anything so they say a different country just to try to fit in now they feel like their country shouldn't be loved and respected and you know honestly I've met one or two people like that and it's sad because as we'll get to talk about later on in the show it's not about the countries though it's about the person that contributes to that country but that brings us to tonight's question tonight hashtag and tea along with the world wants to know should you love your country that's your question for tonight should you love your country if you think yes pick up the phone right now open what's happened down the number shown right here plus nine six four seven seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six and if you also think no still do the same process open your phone go to what's up and down that same number again you can send us a voice message a text message free call via what's up or you can go check us out on Facebook comment there like share for your names we place in this ball right here written on these sticky notes and place in this ball right here for a chance to win a free Ziyara to Karbala along with many many many giveaways the final job will be on Eid so you guys have to tune in all the way up until Eid once again we do say that hashtag LNT is live every night at 2 a.m. Karbala time but let's take a very short break let me catch some water and we'll be back very short welcome back the viewers once again it's Ahmed Ali coming to you live from the holy city of Karbala on hashtag LNT the late night talk with you guys and tonight which I'm about which I'll talk about something very important which I'm talk about your love to your country that love so what you guys have to do is open what's up down the number shown right there at the bottom plus nine six four seven seven four is yours six seven eighteen thirty six and answer this question should you love your country now we'll give you some of the the research that we have gathered together so to show you that should you or should you not love your country now loving country doesn't mean that or doesn't just mean that you're from that country or you're born in that country loving your country is basically as much as picking up a can of soda empty can of soda on the ground or any small trash on the ground Kleenex anything picking it up and throwing it in the garbage can making your country look cleaner just like you would do at home and if you're not clean at home hopefully everyone is but if you're not then then you need to you need to do something about it but if you were to go in and and look at other ways of how people share the love towards their country in soccer games your soccer games in a World Cup is just around the corner and we see fans picking up the flag of their country painting the flag of the country over their face you know just to support their country and of course if your country qualified and if they didn't just drop them no I'm kidding you know you can go for hopefully for the next four years to do that but we do have a call from Hussain from Iraq Salam alaikum Hussain and tonight the question is should you love your country hello Mr. Ahmad I how are you doing Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah good evening to you as well and welcome to hashtag and see now the question for tonight is no problem I know I know your question all right good I would say that if the country provides the basic that doesn't mean it's a democratic country mm-hmm for example the the North Korea Korea provides the basic citizens but that doesn't it's a democratic country mm-hmm we can we can debate that I think the person who appears I feels that the affiliation to his country should do that mm-hmm because he feels the affiliation to his own like land in Iraq we we have to our country we have to feel the we feel that we are parts from our country and we have to on the whole we should love our countries but the note is that not all the country which provides the basic human rights democratic country mm-hmm mm-hmm okay thank you very much for joining us tonight and you know a couple of points you mentioned there they're they're very good as well but thank you very much for joining us once again now Hussein's name will go into the bowl inshallah at this moment yeah for the participants that are living in Iraq you know you know bring you to Karbala it's just like a road trip down down the street so K. Ahmad will bring you down here but I'm kidding no but you know but well but there are other giveaways and if your name does come out then we'll probably do something about it I'm kidding if it then that that's just fair play okay no your names Hussein right there okay thank you very much for joining us tonight now before we got that call we were talking about how the different ways that people can love their country and one of the most important things about loving a country is actually supporting that country and making everyone know that you're from that specific country now we were talking about soccer and the World Cup but one of the ways that you know sometimes when an individual doesn't really feel that love towards this country if he goes on a trip a road trip or to a different country you know let him stay for a couple of weeks or a couple of days for some people then as Iraqi say I missed the smell of Iraq basically what they're trying to say homesick that's what they're trying to say but loving a country can go as far as dying for a country you know if we were to go through the different world wars everyone was a patriot patriot towards their country because they didn't want their country to be affected by war and if we were to come to modern-day wars the war against ISIS Iraqis the Iraqi soldiers they volunteered they're ordinary people who sell tea on the streets who have shops who are taxi drivers who are even in in in good jobs sustainable jobs yet they gave that up loving their country and of course protecting the holy shrines in Iraq but we just have received a voice message from Farhad Azizi from Canada in most cultures a country is like a mother they call it motherland so it is very important to love your country as you love your mother this is Farhad Azizi from Canada thank you very much Farhad and and so your name was previously written and placed in here but thank you very much thank you for participating again and very good point you mentioned there as well comparing a country to a mother and it's very important for that we'll get some of the other segments a lot very soon but if we were to go back before that voice message we were talking about how people they're in love with their country they're willing to sacrifice everything they have and basically everything they have is their life that's all they have the money comes and goes the cars comes and come and go houses come and go but a life when it goes it's not coming back when people sacrifice that much for a country then it's very important to take that into consideration because that's very important at the same time now let's go back a little bit to the question I asked you guys earlier should you love your country now there's something you guys have to understand and that's there's a difference between a country and the nation what's the difference we define what the love for the country is but many of us can't really differ between a country and a nation and how does a country differ from a nation well a nation doesn't have to be the place that you're actually born in you know your motherland is where you're born in or your motherland is where your ancestors or your mother and father is from but a nation is the one that takes you in educates you is the one that helps you strive at the same time you can love both but we'll get talk about that later on inshallah we do have coming up for us the public opinion or the text message okay let's sister from fuzzy moon from Trinidad she says yes you should be proud of your country you're living even if you was if you were not born there okay thank you for much fuzzy moon from Trinidad your name was also placed in this bowl so inshallah we'll let everyone participate and we do thank you for participating tonight now let's go and check what the public has to say about tonight's question should you love your country of course so my country would be back home of the Iraq I love that with a passion as it's a nation that's striving and prospering and at the same time the UK as well that's my country that are people that you know welcomed us in and helped us and educated us and yeah definitely because it's your country you know so it's where you're representing because it's where you've been born and it's where you belong we are in the world where society is changing rapidly and we are injective disruptive politics which is infiltrating among us and destroying the harmony and peace and I believe that each country is fighting against these odds to keep the nation intact and cater to better healthcare which in turn leads to better economy so for us it's very important to love yourself and the people around you and of course your country to end this I would like to go what John F Kennedy once said ask not what country did you ask what you can do for your country thank you once again thank you very much for those who have joined us tonight from the public opinion and gave us their opinion on tonight's topic everyone agreed with tonight's question but we do remind everyone for letting it give me this camera here give me this camera here I don't hear the phones ringing well I actually do they're coming right now but pick up the phone right now open what's up because honestly I have a question for you guys alongside this right here should you love your country don't you guys want to come to Karbala for free we're not trying to say that you know what you know but it's it's a good chance that you might come to Karbala but all you have to do is open what's up dial the number shown at the bottom right there plus nine six four seven seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six and let us know what you think about tonight's question should you love your country that's that's your question for tonight but before the break we were talking about the difference between a nation and a country and we came to the conclusion that they're different they're not the same they're not similar in any way maybe some ways but not in all ways now for instance you know when I was in Canada I knew a lot of Pakistani friends and even in Karbala I still know a lot of Pakistani friends because they come to Karbala they text me and so on and so forth but one thing that's actually very beautiful about those who come to Karbala from a different country they say that Iraq is our second country if not the country that we love the most you know or or their nation now I know individual Dr. Abbas shout out to him this individual every day he comes to Karbala more than three times a year two to three times a year and when he does come to Karbala he has initiatives in Karbala and he says that Iraq is my second home so he doesn't feel he's home sick and this actually is very important for anyone that visits another country that signifies something when you visit Iraq you're basically visiting the holy shrines there are some nice sites out there but you're basically visiting the holy shrines in Iraq and when you're here you feel like the connection between you the shrine automatically strengthens the connection with you and that country that you're visiting now let's let's go see what the expert has for us tonight Dr. Romaiti joining us once again on hashtag to him should you love your country regardless of the label you may want to give to the to the notion of loving your country whether it's nationalism patriotism or just simply just calling it loving your country this topic has been colluded with different variables see the problem the primary answer would be definitely everyone must love their country and I would ask what kind of question is this it's my country I was born here I was raised here I studied here I got married here I'm working here and etc but what if you were not born and raised in the country or and right now or in another world that you're a naturalized citizen see I want to I want to refer to to the commander of faithful Ali Ibn Abi Talab salamullahi where he says the best land is the one that carries you what does he mean by saying carries you it means actually it's the land that provides for you and made the tools and the means for you growing up and becoming a beneficial member of this society available all the one might say that providing these means is this you know is the responsibility of any state so they're not doing anything special I would I would say you know what yet true but there are many places around the world where the simplest necessities of life are absent and they're considered a privilege for a few therefore the land that provides those essentials for you and further furthermore makes make sure that you are well taken care of is your home ma'm Ali actually says loving the Arabic says love your land is our faith see and then for it's a simple question it's a simple answer but at the same time I'd like to actually return to the to the point that I made at the beginning about the notion of loving your country and all the labels attached to it being being a clouded what I mean by that actually due to globalism and this world turning into what some have called the universal village and then no village the notion of nationalism and love for country has lost its glow and radiance multinational corporations social media TV cinema dominant cultures etc have cooled down the notion of nationalism and this tendency to adopt globalism multiculturalism has been worrisome for some unfortunately therefore we have we've been witnessing the rise of populism or what I call what I like to call neo nationalism and under rhetoric inflammatory that's if I want to be polite therefore these these topics actually may may seem very simple we may think that yeah you know I love my country you know everyone loves his you know his country but I would just end with I would say in that it might be a lot more complex and needs further dissection but definitely everyone everyone must love their country whether the country that you were born whether you whether the country that you currently live in and wish the best for everyone once again thank you very much for joining us tonight very interesting topic and very interesting points you mentioned there so a big shout out to you mr. Sam doctors and the monthly once again thank you for joining us tonight now before the break or not break but before we're talking to we were we were discussing the ways various ways that you can love a nation or you can love a country and you can love them both at the same time but we do have a call from Musa from Iraq Salamun alaykum welcome to hashtag anti hello mr. Ahmad Ali hello hi yeah welcome to hashtag and tonight's question should you love your country yeah I love my country so and I love Iraq very much and I love you man thank you very much thank you very much I love you too I love you too and and Iraq is a very good country and and beyond and by the Torah Allah thank you very much Musa for joining us tonight very it's actually very nice thank you very much for joining us tonight it's it's it's very nice to find someone that can you know really connect his country as we find Musa from Iraq thank you very much Musa for joining us tonight your name will be M O U S a Musa Iraq 10 call thank you very much Musa from Iraq for joining us tonight right there okay okay all right well yeah if you see me laughing don't think I'm going crazy I just get these random messages or these random comments in my ear but we have two minutes left now the third segment for today is all about the Islamic point of view about the topic and when we took one when we look at this question right here and how Islam analyzes it and give this a proper answer Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he mentions that loving a nation or loving a country is embedded within religion of Islam now we have a lot of narrations a lot of traditions from the other bait especially Prophet Muhammad and the imams they say that the best land or the best nation is the one that takes you in at the same time a few a few episodes ago we talked about migration and one of the most beautiful things that we mentioned at the end of the episode is that seek knowledge even in China seek knowledge even if in if even if it's it's in China so love your nation and love the nation that you're living in as well which is very important because you need that love because that nation or that country is giving back to you so what you have to do is give back to that country now we do remind everyone for joining us tonight this is Ahmad Ali coming to you live in the holy city of Karbala on the late night talk every night of Ramadan up until Eid we are live at 2 a.m. Karbala time 12 a.m. London time 7 p.m. DC time once again thank you very much wa sallamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh take it easy