What is your opinion of the one who says that implementing Islamic work in America is easier than in other disbelieving countries?
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The questioner : What I have noticed, without a doubt, is that applying Islamic work in America was much easier than applying Islamic work here, especially among the existing demographic... A small example: In America, the issue of free mixing is a natural thing... Even there, it does not exist... completely, but it exists within families together. Here, free mixing occurs no matter what the circumstances are. The issue of shaking hands, for example, in America, you can choose not to shake hands with any woman without any problems. I just went down to Lebanon, to Beirut, and I faced these problems very much in many cases... So I noticed that applying Islamic work and religion in America was much, much easier than applying Islamic work here.
The Shaykh : ...forgetting its first part, it says: "And every stranger is a relative to the stranger." So being a stranger brings people together there, and makes them close and understanding. Our Islamic countries have sects, they have different and numerous groups. From here the problem comes. But if we imagine that a person, whether you or someone else, intends to get to know a group of the Salafi groups that I got to know there in America in this country, for example, or elsewhere, would not your Islamic life here be stronger than there?
The questioner : Yes... You might see any person abroad offering you... or offering you the greeting, you tell her: I do not shake hands, they respect you and appreciate you... But here, one person, praise be to Allah, tries to limit himself within the Salafi group, but the outside world here does not appreciate it!
The Shaykh : This is correct, but you are looking at the issue from only one point. That is, now there is the freedom you are referring to, that I do not shake hands and they appreciate you, why? Because there is freedom. But this freedom is not regulated for what suits morals and suits religions here. It is a freedom that contains good and evil; that is, if you, instead of shaking hands, kissed her; what would they say to you? Thank you, of course, this does not stem from the atmosphere being upright!
Another questioner : ...they are prohibited in schools... the prohibition of wool clothing, when a friend was with us and went down with us, they prohibited... .
The Shaykh : ... .
Another questioner : ...and the text came that the clothing should be formal, and formal means the pants and the shirt. I am speaking of me and... I say: Even in Western European countries, the respect for opinion and absolute freedom that we talk about, if you wore whatever you wore there, no one has any right over you at all. The difference now is that you cannot keep moving from country to country just because it allows you to practice your rituals simply... ease in all things. You need to suffer, and you need to struggle, and you need to be patient, and you need to be harmed in the path of Allah, but it is a process of balance; therefore, Allah knows best that... he hinted... that there is no ruling to this question; that is, you need to compare which is more beneficial for your religion and your worldly life, you need to proceed with it in stages, but for the long term, it is not permissible to live in the lands of the disbelievers; because it will befall you and your family and your children, and you need to get accustomed... to this environment. We were also talking about this today, by your instinct, by your mind, by the hidden, you will automatically start to accept and find pleasant things, or you will be lenient about small matters, day after day, as a result of practice and as a result of impossibility, and then after a period, you will find yourself breaking the ties of the religion that you hold onto, one after another. Your son wants to watch television, if... I talked with people, you get to know such and such, you will find yourself instead of shaking hands, you kiss and they say to you: Thank you!
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, the Crusaders are planning for their benefit, so it is supposed that some heads with high positions should face them, who have a background, as they say today, Islamic, and that this imitating the disbelievers to this degree, this is a waste of the Islamic personality. There must be resistance to this, from people who are hidden, so to speak, in that aspect!
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Good, why are these people being used?
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : That is it, Allah is the helper.
The Shaykh : ...forgetting its first part, it says: "And every stranger is a relative to the stranger." So being a stranger brings people together there, and makes them close and understanding. Our Islamic countries have sects, they have different and numerous groups. From here the problem comes. But if we imagine that a person, whether you or someone else, intends to get to know a group of the Salafi groups that I got to know there in America in this country, for example, or elsewhere, would not your Islamic life here be stronger than there?
The questioner : Yes... You might see any person abroad offering you... or offering you the greeting, you tell her: I do not shake hands, they respect you and appreciate you... But here, one person, praise be to Allah, tries to limit himself within the Salafi group, but the outside world here does not appreciate it!
The Shaykh : This is correct, but you are looking at the issue from only one point. That is, now there is the freedom you are referring to, that I do not shake hands and they appreciate you, why? Because there is freedom. But this freedom is not regulated for what suits morals and suits religions here. It is a freedom that contains good and evil; that is, if you, instead of shaking hands, kissed her; what would they say to you? Thank you, of course, this does not stem from the atmosphere being upright!
Another questioner : ...they are prohibited in schools... the prohibition of wool clothing, when a friend was with us and went down with us, they prohibited... .
The Shaykh : ... .
Another questioner : ...and the text came that the clothing should be formal, and formal means the pants and the shirt. I am speaking of me and... I say: Even in Western European countries, the respect for opinion and absolute freedom that we talk about, if you wore whatever you wore there, no one has any right over you at all. The difference now is that you cannot keep moving from country to country just because it allows you to practice your rituals simply... ease in all things. You need to suffer, and you need to struggle, and you need to be patient, and you need to be harmed in the path of Allah, but it is a process of balance; therefore, Allah knows best that... he hinted... that there is no ruling to this question; that is, you need to compare which is more beneficial for your religion and your worldly life, you need to proceed with it in stages, but for the long term, it is not permissible to live in the lands of the disbelievers; because it will befall you and your family and your children, and you need to get accustomed... to this environment. We were also talking about this today, by your instinct, by your mind, by the hidden, you will automatically start to accept and find pleasant things, or you will be lenient about small matters, day after day, as a result of practice and as a result of impossibility, and then after a period, you will find yourself breaking the ties of the religion that you hold onto, one after another. Your son wants to watch television, if... I talked with people, you get to know such and such, you will find yourself instead of shaking hands, you kiss and they say to you: Thank you!
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, the Crusaders are planning for their benefit, so it is supposed that some heads with high positions should face them, who have a background, as they say today, Islamic, and that this imitating the disbelievers to this degree, this is a waste of the Islamic personality. There must be resistance to this, from people who are hidden, so to speak, in that aspect!
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Good, why are these people being used?
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : That is it, Allah is the helper.
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