If the ruler gives you a choice between two things: either shaving your beard and drinking intoxicants, or being expelled from your country, which would you choose, knowing that there is no country better than my country?

The Shaykh : Thirteen. If the ruler gives you a choice between two things with no third option, either shaving your beard and drinking intoxicants, or being expelled from your country, which would you choose? That is what he said: "If he gave me a choice, which would I choose... he gave you a choice, which do you choose, knowing that there is no country better than an Islamic country?" I believe this is a mistake, meaning his statement that there is no good in an Islamic country. How can there be good in a country where such a choice is imposed?
Therefore, on this occasion, we remind you that the Muslim who is given a choice between residing in his country while committing a sin, believing it to be a sin, and persisting in avoiding the sin by leaving his country, we say it is obligatory for him to leave that country which contains this injustice, which means we rarely imagine anything more immersed in injustice than this.
So he has no excuse for remaining in that country while exposing himself to such a sin and others. This is undoubtedly opening the door for these oppressors to enslave these governed Muslims, because whenever it pleases the oppressive ruler to impose an order on the people, he will say, "Either you leave or you do this." If the matter stopped here, some evil is less than some, but this means, as it is also said, "The first of the rain is drops, then it pours down". So the first thing he will say is, "Do this or get out." No, I will get out. He is not satisfied with that because he is not satisfied, for evil is "Most of the fire, as they say, comes from the smallest sparks".
I say, finally, I say from my side, finally.