Is migration obligatory for one who is unable to practice the matters of religion in a country where there is open sinfulness and sins?
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Question:
He says: If one lives in a country where there is open sinfulness and sins, is migration obligatory for him if he is unable to practice the matters of religion?
Answer:
If he is unable to practice the religion, and the country is a land of disbelief and a land of shirk (associating partners with Allah), and he is unable to manifest his religion, he migrates. But if it is a land of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) but has some sins, this does not make migration obligatory, but it makes enjoining good and forbidding evil, and admonition, obligatory. Or rather, is there any community free from sins? Even in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), in the community where the Messenger was, there were those who committed sins, and the hudud (fixed Qur'anic punishments) were carried out against them: the hadd for zina (unlawful sexual intercourse), the hadd for khamr (intoxicants), the hadd for theft. This was found in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). There is no community that is immune from sin occurring in it. Yes.
He says: If one lives in a country where there is open sinfulness and sins, is migration obligatory for him if he is unable to practice the matters of religion?
Answer:
If he is unable to practice the religion, and the country is a land of disbelief and a land of shirk (associating partners with Allah), and he is unable to manifest his religion, he migrates. But if it is a land of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) but has some sins, this does not make migration obligatory, but it makes enjoining good and forbidding evil, and admonition, obligatory. Or rather, is there any community free from sins? Even in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), in the community where the Messenger was, there were those who committed sins, and the hudud (fixed Qur'anic punishments) were carried out against them: the hadd for zina (unlawful sexual intercourse), the hadd for khamr (intoxicants), the hadd for theft. This was found in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). There is no community that is immune from sin occurring in it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل تكون الهجرة واجبة في حق مَن لا يستطيع أن يطبق أمور الدين في بلد فيه الفسق والمعاصي؟ #فتاوى — youtube.com
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