The Intended Meaning of Expelling the Disbelievers from the Arabian Peninsula and Combining the Evidence

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, what is the evidence that the intended meaning of expelling the disbelievers from the Arabian Peninsula is that they are not permitted to settle there, and why is the prohibition not absolute?

Answer:
My brother, you do not understand the speech. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) allowed them to come, to correspond with him, and to speak with him. He allowed them to enter for the purpose of listening to the Qur'an. This specifies his statement, "Expel them from the Arabian Peninsula," to mean that the intended meaning is settlement only. As for their entering for a specific purpose and then returning to their lands, there is nothing wrong with that. He said, "Indeed, I do not detain the messengers," which indicates that the messengers of the disbelievers come to him, negotiate with him, and then return. Yes.
It is obligatory for the Muslim, who is a student of knowledge, to combine the evidence. He does not take one piece of evidence and leave the rest. He takes all the evidence and combines them, specifying the general with the particular, restricting the absolute with the restricted, and the abrogating with the abrogated. He reflects upon the evidence. He does not take one side and leave the other. This is the way of the people of deviation. They are the ones who take some of the evidence and leave some. They take what agrees with their desires and leave what contradicts their desires from the evidence. This is the way of the people of deviation: interpretation. But the people who are firm in knowledge and the people of jurisprudence, they say: . They combine the evidence, interpreting some with some and clarifying some with some. This is something that only the people of knowledge can do. The pretender to knowledge, the common person, the ignorant one, or the zealous one cannot do this. This is among the characteristics of the people of knowledge who are firm in knowledge. It is not permissible for a person who does not have mastery of knowledge and jurisprudence in the religion of Allah the Exalted to speak about rulings.