What is the ruling on living in America, given that his residence there is similar to his residence in his home country, such as Lebanon, for example?

The questioner : Even if the American society in which that person lives is similar, or even if the harm or his presence there is less harmful than in his home country; for example, if he lived in Lebanon?

The Shaykh : We look at the outcome... but in my opinion, the written text makes it clear from its title; if we imagine that reform will happen, or to put it more clearly: the establishment of an Islamic society, and to put it even more frankly: the establishment of a Muslim state, what do we imagine the establishment of a Muslim state to be in the Islamic countries with a deep affiliation to Islam, or in these countries to which Muslims emigrate?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : That is it, and therefore, if we look at your question right now, I might add to what you say and say: some Muslims may live better there than in their own countries, but this is a very short-sighted view. We look to the future. First, we must also look at the offspring that will come from these Muslims. Do we guarantee that these fathers will secure the future of these children, and that no decision will be made like what they did? The news of the Bulgarians is not far from your memory, and their attempt to convert them, or rather to take them out of Islam, the Muslim Turks. Therefore, I have said more than once, and I have been asked: What is the ruling on Bulgarian meat? I am very annoyed by these questions lately, and I sometimes shout and say: While you are asking about this issue, the Bulgarians are slaughtering the Muslim Turks like sheep! Do you want to ask if their sheep were slaughtered in the Islamic way or not? Is it permissible to eat it or not? If they were slaughtering it in the Islamic way, it would be obligatory for Muslims to boycott this country while it is doing to our Muslim brothers what it is doing. So, there is no guarantee, Professor, that Muslims will live and cluster together. In reality, I wonder what the outcome will be... We said: this is ink on paper, it is not a correct statement. Therefore, may Allah reward you, we must look to the distant future.

The questioner : ...and they study in schools.

The Shaykh : This is what we referred to: do we guarantee that these children will grow up as Muslims?!

Another questioner : ...as you mentioned, there is no single sufficient answer to this question; because this question branches out. If a person is in a situation where you are going for four or five years for study, then work for four or five years, and consequently will not have offspring or children in the near future to worry about, he is actually why are we asking; because they are living in America within an Islamic group and spreading in the path of Allah, and Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) has bestowed upon him. If he had stayed in Beirut, perhaps it would not have been easy for him to get a Salafi wife, but in America he met someone who directed him to her people, so he went and found a group of Salafis, and he proposed to her within a week, and it was facilitated for him. Here, when he said that he is living in an Islamic society, he is not actually living in an Islamic society, but he has confined himself within a group that is active in the path of Allah, and this is temporary... My master, the Shaykh, that you live with the mind that you want to keep living there, and consequently children will come to you, and the children will want a television, and they will go to the bakery to buy from a woman wearing a hat; meaning you want to live in an atmosphere, so you cannot live in a one-hundred-percent Islamic atmosphere in America.