We ask the Shaykh to offer advice to the residents in the lands of disbelief.
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The questioner : In reality, I have some friends in the countries of America and Europe, but they practice Islam. So I cited your hadith regarding the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) What do you advise these Muslim youths in the disbelieving countries to do so that they may be callers to Islam, or
The Shaykh : First, I want to draw your attention to the fact that your statement that they practice Islam contains a great deal of leniency in expression, is that not so?
The questioner : I did not understand what you meant, meaning
The Shaykh : My intention is clear, but consider what I am saying. I say: Your expression that those residing in the lands of disbelief, America and Europe, you said that they practice Islam, there is leniency in this expression.
The questioner : In fact, what I intended was that they practice the acts of worship.
The Shaykh : I know, O Shaykh, what you intended.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : But walk with me, there is leniency in the expression, correct? Ah, you don't want to say correct?
The questioner : No problem, correct.
The Shaykh : Except for shaking the head -laughs- meaning you are afraid it will be recorded against you.
The questioner : No, I am not afraid -laughs-
The Shaykh : There is no fear here; it is an acknowledgment of the truth, meaning.
The questioner : Correct, accurate.
The Shaykh : The point is, I advise every Muslim residing in the lands of disbelief with what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) advised, and I cannot do otherwise. However, the jurisprudence of Islam allows me some leeway to say: if you find a group of Muslims in some of the lands of disbelief who are united and gathered, and they feel that they can apply Islam in a wider scope than if they were in some of the Islamic lands, this is first. And second, they must have at least one scholar, if not scholars, who guide them to the rulings of their religion. Because these residents in those disbelieving lands are combining two types of alienation: the alienation of home, for they are strangers in the lands of disbelief away from the lands of Islam, and the religious alienation. Because, as of now, I do not know, I do not know. This does not mean that not knowing a thing necessitates knowing its absence, no. But I say, within the limits of my knowledge to this day, I do not know of a community in the West that can be called an Islamic community, a white spot in that black disbelieving darkness, led by a scholar of the Book and the Sunnah. I do not know this. And therefore, what I imagine, and what I know from the questions and news that reach me, is that those doubly alienated people are stumbling in their application of their religion because they do not have knowledge, or they do not have a scholar who leads them by the Book and the Sunnah. If these two conditions are met: the first condition is that they are able to apply Islam more than they can apply it in their Islamic homelands, and that they have at least one scholar whose guidance they follow and whose knowledge they illuminate themselves with, and this is what I know to exist. Therefore, I return to advising them all, and this is what I always and forever do, as questions reach me almost every night from various countries, from Europe, from America. I advise them to migrate from America to the lands of Islam, not the other way around. They call it by a different name: they migrate from the lands of Islam to the lands of disbelief. So they changed a legal reality to the extent that they formerly called America... what did they call it? The Migrant. This is contrary to the Shari'ah.[An-Nisa 4:97] This address is for those who embraced Islam in the lands of disbelief to migrate from them to the lands of Islam. We are now reversing this. So we advise these people to return to the lands of Islam. Then I believe that any individual or any group seeking to reform the Islamic society, no matter how difficult reform is in an Islamic country, it is undoubtedly more difficult in the lands of disbelief. More difficult, because in the lands of disbelief, for example, you want to treat, to correct concepts, to correct behavior and morals, to combat this and combat the display of adornment by women and the open sinfulness of men, and so on. This is while you waste your time and effort combating in this black gathering. It is not easier for you to return to your country and find a place, or a village, or a neighborhood, and call those around you to the Book and the Sunnah. This is undoubtedly more beneficial and easier than there. And this is my advice, and Allah knows best. Okay.
The questioner : Naturalizing with the citizenship of disbelief, like the American citizenship, for example.
The Shaykh : This is the complete taking of the disbelievers as allies.
Another questioner : Allahu Akbar.
The Shaykh :[Al-Ma'idah 5:51] .
I am innocent of every one who resides among the disbelievers for more than three.
أنا بريء من كلّ من أقام بين ظهراني الكفّار لأكثر من ثلاثThe Shaykh : First, I want to draw your attention to the fact that your statement that they practice Islam contains a great deal of leniency in expression, is that not so?
The questioner : I did not understand what you meant, meaning
The Shaykh : My intention is clear, but consider what I am saying. I say: Your expression that those residing in the lands of disbelief, America and Europe, you said that they practice Islam, there is leniency in this expression.
The questioner : In fact, what I intended was that they practice the acts of worship.
The Shaykh : I know, O Shaykh, what you intended.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : But walk with me, there is leniency in the expression, correct? Ah, you don't want to say correct?
The questioner : No problem, correct.
The Shaykh : Except for shaking the head -laughs- meaning you are afraid it will be recorded against you.
The questioner : No, I am not afraid -laughs-
The Shaykh : There is no fear here; it is an acknowledgment of the truth, meaning.
The questioner : Correct, accurate.
The Shaykh : The point is, I advise every Muslim residing in the lands of disbelief with what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) advised, and I cannot do otherwise. However, the jurisprudence of Islam allows me some leeway to say: if you find a group of Muslims in some of the lands of disbelief who are united and gathered, and they feel that they can apply Islam in a wider scope than if they were in some of the Islamic lands, this is first. And second, they must have at least one scholar, if not scholars, who guide them to the rulings of their religion. Because these residents in those disbelieving lands are combining two types of alienation: the alienation of home, for they are strangers in the lands of disbelief away from the lands of Islam, and the religious alienation. Because, as of now, I do not know, I do not know. This does not mean that not knowing a thing necessitates knowing its absence, no. But I say, within the limits of my knowledge to this day, I do not know of a community in the West that can be called an Islamic community, a white spot in that black disbelieving darkness, led by a scholar of the Book and the Sunnah. I do not know this. And therefore, what I imagine, and what I know from the questions and news that reach me, is that those doubly alienated people are stumbling in their application of their religion because they do not have knowledge, or they do not have a scholar who leads them by the Book and the Sunnah. If these two conditions are met: the first condition is that they are able to apply Islam more than they can apply it in their Islamic homelands, and that they have at least one scholar whose guidance they follow and whose knowledge they illuminate themselves with, and this is what I know to exist. Therefore, I return to advising them all, and this is what I always and forever do, as questions reach me almost every night from various countries, from Europe, from America. I advise them to migrate from America to the lands of Islam, not the other way around. They call it by a different name: they migrate from the lands of Islam to the lands of disbelief. So they changed a legal reality to the extent that they formerly called America... what did they call it? The Migrant. This is contrary to the Shari'ah.
Was not the earth of Allah spacious [enough] for you to emigrate therein?
ألم تكن أرض الله واسعة فتهاجروا فيهاThe questioner : Naturalizing with the citizenship of disbelief, like the American citizenship, for example.
The Shaykh : This is the complete taking of the disbelievers as allies.
Another questioner : Allahu Akbar.
The Shaykh :
And whoever is an ally to them among you - then indeed, he is [one] of them
ومن يتوّلهم منكم فإنّه منهم
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