Is traveling to seek livelihood and sustenance considered migration in the cause of Allah?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: Those who came from outside this country to it to benefit from the scholars' lessons, and for the sake of living among the Muslims, are they considered migrants in the cause of Allah, and do they receive reward for that?
Answer:
No, migration is moving to reside. As for them, they come to seek knowledge and to seek livelihood as well. This is considered setting out to gain understanding, as Allah the Exalted said:[At-Tawbah 9:122]. So this is setting out to seek knowledge, and it is striving in the pursuit of knowledge.
The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: A great good will return to them, but they are not migrants. A migrant is the one who settles in the country, resides in the country, and becomes one of its people. One of the people of the country. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: Those who came from outside this country to it to benefit from the scholars' lessons, and for the sake of living among the Muslims, are they considered migrants in the cause of Allah, and do they receive reward for that?
Answer:
No, migration is moving to reside. As for them, they come to seek knowledge and to seek livelihood as well. This is considered setting out to gain understanding, as Allah the Exalted said:
And it is not for the believers to go forth [to battle] all at once. For there should separate from every division of them a group [remaining] to obtain understanding in the religion and warn their people when they return to them that they might be cautious.
وَمَا كَانَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ لِيَنفِرُوا كَافَّةً فَلَوْلَا نَفَرَ مِن كُلِّ فِرْقَةٍ مِّنْهُمْ طَائِفَةٌ لِّيَتَفَقَّهُوا فِي الدِّينِ وَلِيُنذِرُوا قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَحْذَرُونَThe Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Whoever takes a path to seek knowledge, Allah will make easy for him a path to Paradise.
من سلك طريقا يلتمس به علما سهل الله له به طريقا من الجنة.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1511- 4717] هل السفر لطلب الرزق والمعيشة يعتبر من الهجرة في سبيل الله؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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