Partisanship

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Whoever is bigoted or partial [to a false cause], or incites partisanship around himself and his own causes [unlawfully], the knot binding him to faith is untied from around his neck.

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Whoever contains even a mustard seed s weight of partisanship in his heart, Allah will raise him on the Day of Resurrection among the tribes of pagan and clannish Arabia.

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘One who calls to partisanship is not one of us, nor one who fights for a bigoted cause, nor one who dies a partisan.

Imam Ali (AS), condemning Iblis [Satan], said, ‘So he felt proud of his own creation over Adam s, and was racist against him because of his origin. The enemy of Allah, therefore, is the leader of all racist bigots, and the forefather of all those who consider themselves superior, who laid the very foundation of bigotry, and tried to wrest the cloak of might from Allah, and assumed the garb of exultation having shed the veil of self-abasement.

Imam Zayn al-Abidin (AS) said, ‘Blameworthy and punishable partisanship is when a person considers the evil people of his own community to be better and prefers them over the good people of another community. It is not considered partisanship or bigotry to love one s own community, rather it is when a person loves them in spite of their wrongdoing and aids them therein.