When is emigrating from a country obligatory?
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Question:
When is emigrating from a country obligatory, given that there are no scholars or students of knowledge in this country who follow the Book and the Sunnah?
Answer:
If you are able, if you can travel to seek knowledge, you travel. But if you are unable, you are excused. However, you must listen to the religious programs on the Quran radio stations, and you must listen to recorded lectures and lessons, and read in beneficial books to benefit from them. This is the least you can do. But if it becomes easy for you to travel and attend the scholars, there is no doubt that it is confirmed in your right to travel. With the ability and capacity, you seek knowledge. Otherwise, a group from every section of them would have gone to gain deep understanding of the religion, so that they could warn their people when they returned to them, so that they might guard themselves. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih Muslim 2699a.
When is emigrating from a country obligatory, given that there are no scholars or students of knowledge in this country who follow the Book and the Sunnah?
Answer:
If you are able, if you can travel to seek knowledge, you travel. But if you are unable, you are excused. However, you must listen to the religious programs on the Quran radio stations, and you must listen to recorded lectures and lessons, and read in beneficial books to benefit from them. This is the least you can do. But if it becomes easy for you to travel and attend the scholars, there is no doubt that it is confirmed in your right to travel. With the ability and capacity, you seek knowledge. Otherwise, a group from every section of them would have gone to gain deep understanding of the religion, so that they could warn their people when they returned to them, so that they might guard themselves. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
he who treads the path in search of knowledge, Allah would make that path easy, leading to Paradise for him
من سلك طريقا يلتمس به علما سهل الله له به طريقا إلى الجنة
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، متى تكون الهجرة من البلد واجبة؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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