What is the ruling on emigrating from Muslim lands to the lands of disbelief?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: You mentioned (may Allah preserve you) the hadiths indicating the obligation of emigrating from the lands of disbelief to the lands of tawhid (the oneness of Allah). What is the ruling on one who emigrates from Muslim lands to the lands of disbelief, resides there, and obtains citizenship? This is the opposite of emigration, this is the opposite of the emigration of the one who leaves
Answer:
Muslim lands, and others, to the lands of the disbelievers. This is the opposite of emigration, and this is prohibited. Did you hear the verse[An-Nisa 4:97]?
In the hadithJami` at-Tirmidhi 1604Da'if (Darussalam) and in the hadith , emigration is to Muslim lands, or to lands that may not be Muslim, but where one is able to manifest his religion there; he emigrates to it, just as the Companions emigrated to the land of Abyssinia, which was not an Islamic land at that time, but it was the least harmful of lands; so he emigrates to the place where he is able to manifest his religion. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: You mentioned (may Allah preserve you) the hadiths indicating the obligation of emigrating from the lands of disbelief to the lands of tawhid (the oneness of Allah). What is the ruling on one who emigrates from Muslim lands to the lands of disbelief, resides there, and obtains citizenship? This is the opposite of emigration, this is the opposite of the emigration of the one who leaves
Answer:
Muslim lands, and others, to the lands of the disbelievers. This is the opposite of emigration, and this is prohibited. Did you hear the verse
those whom the angels take [in death] while wronging themselves - [the angels] will say, "In what [condition] were you?" They will say, "We were oppressed in the land." The angels will say, "Was not the earth of Allah spacious [enough] for you to emigrate therein?"
الَّذِينَ تَوَفَّاهُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ ظَالِمِي أَنفُسِهِمْ قَالُوا فِيمَ كُنتُمْ قَالُوا كُنَّا مُسْتَضْعَفِينَ فِي الْأَرْضِ قَالُوا أَلَمْ تَكُنْ أَرْضُ اللَّهِ وَاسِعَةً فَتُهَاجِرُوا فِيهَاIn the hadith
I am free from every Muslim that lives among the idolaters.
أنا بريء من مسلم يقيم بين أظهر المشركينTheir two fires are not visible to each other. So if he is able to
لا تتراءى ناراهما فإذا كان يقدر على
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم الهجرة من بلاد المسلمين إلى ديار الكفر؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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