Associating with Disbelievers and Emigrating from Their Lands
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Those with dead hearts are the disbelievers. Is associating with them and living with them a cause for the hearts to become diseased, such that emigration becomes obligatory?
The Shaykh:
There is no doubt about it. Therefore, emigration is obligatory for the one who is able to do it. Emigration from the lands of disbelief to the lands of Islam, in order to preserve one’s religion, is obligatory for the one who is able to do so.
The questioner:
Honorable people.
The Shaykh:
For the one who avoids associating with them, living with them, and residing among them. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Those with dead hearts are the disbelievers. Is associating with them and living with them a cause for the hearts to become diseased, such that emigration becomes obligatory?
The Shaykh:
There is no doubt about it. Therefore, emigration is obligatory for the one who is able to do it. Emigration from the lands of disbelief to the lands of Islam, in order to preserve one’s religion, is obligatory for the one who is able to do so.
The questioner:
Honorable people.
The Shaykh:
For the one who avoids associating with them, living with them, and residing among them. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل في القلب الميت — islamhouse.com (58:38)
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