The ruling on emigrating from lands whose people fight the Muslims
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Question : As for what follows, what is the ruling on a man who entered this religion, loves it, and loves those who entered it, and hates shirk (associating partners with Allah) and its people, but the people of his land openly declare enmity toward Islam? They fight its people, and he excuses himself by saying that leaving his homeland is difficult for him, and he did not emigrate from it on the basis of these excuses. Will this man be a Muslim or a disbeliever?
Answer : Yes, this man who embraced Islam, took pleasure in Islam, loved Islam and its people, and remained in a land of disbelief whose people hate the people of Islam and fight them—we tell him that his remaining in this land is forbidden (haram) for him. He must emigrate. If he does not do so, let him expect [the consequences], as Allah the Exalted said regarding those who lag behind in emigration:[An-Nisa 4:97-98] It is obligatory for him, if he is able, to emigrate. When he emigrates to an Islamic land, he will take pleasure in the land he emigrated to, and the love for the land he emigrated from will peel away from his heart. As for his remaining in a land of disbelief where they fight Islam and its people, on the grounds that it is his original homeland, this is forbidden (haram) for him. It is not permissible for him to remain there, nor is he the one who is deficient.
Answer : Yes, this man who embraced Islam, took pleasure in Islam, loved Islam and its people, and remained in a land of disbelief whose people hate the people of Islam and fight them—we tell him that his remaining in this land is forbidden (haram) for him. He must emigrate. If he does not do so, let him expect [the consequences], as Allah the Exalted said regarding those who lag behind in emigration:
(97) Indeed, 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?" For those, their refuge is Hell - and evil it is as a destination. (98) Except for the oppressed among men, women and children who cannot devise a plan nor are they directed to a way -
الَّذِينَ تَوَفَّاهُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ ظَالِمِي أَنفُسِهِمْ قَالُوا فِيمَ كُنتُمْ قَالُوا كُنَّا مُسْتَضْعَفِينَ فِي الْأَرْضِ قَالُوا أَلَمْ تَكُنْ أَرْضُ اللَّهِ وَاسِعَةً فَتُهَاجِرُوا فِيهَا فَأُولَٰئِكَ مَأْوَاهُمْ جَهَنَّمُ وَسَاءَتْ مَصِيرًا إِلَّا الْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَاءِ وَالْوِلْدَانِ
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قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، لقاء[16 من 27] حكم الهجرة من البلاد التي يقاتل أهلها المسلمين - الشيخ ابن عثيمين -مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com
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