Discussion regarding the ruling on migration.

The questioner : ... The question is that when the Muslims were asked to migrate from Makkah to al-Madinah, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) established his state there to return once again as the conqueror of Makkah; so it was obligatory for the Muslims to work to strengthen the Muslims present in al-Madinah.

The Shaykh : This is incorrect, and the matter does not require lengthening. What do you say about the migration to Abyssinia? So the argument falls from its root, and the Messenger... Yes?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : Welcome, how are you?

Another questioner : He has another point of view as well.

The Shaykh : Bring it so we can see.

Another questioner : My point of view is with the brother.

Another questioner : Emotion—Professor—just the Palestinian emotion.

The Shaykh : No problem, Baraki has something new for us to hear from him. Do you have something new?

Another questioner : I have an example regarding migration, excuse me, regarding migration, in Tanzania.

The Shaykh : What is it? Blonde like my story?

Another questioner : The migration of some Muslims who did not migrate from Tanzania to their countries and remained present in those lands, so the Christian rule came and there were massacres. Their steadfastness led to many Christians becoming Muslim, and now the ruler has changed and become Muslim. So, the example of Andalusia, I do not think, is an example that can be applied to Palestine. In Palestine now, in the West Bank, they call it the West Bank, ninety percent are Muslims, they are not Jews. Their presence in their land establishes their pillars, because if a Palestinian leaves, a Jew takes his place immediately...

The Shaykh : O people, fear Allah in yourselves. I tell you, study reality, do not study imagination. Do you not know that the Jews, every few months, every few years, migrate people from Russia, people from Austria, people, and so on, and that they are planning to increase the number of Jews so that they will overcome the Muslims there, or not? Or do you not know this?

The questioner : This is what I teach them; they want the opposite.

The Shaykh: Glory be to Allah!

The questioner : We should be steadfast instead of this migrant coming whom they want to respond to.

The Shaykh : But you cannot, these lands were occupied, and these buildings were occupied, and so on. What can the Muslims there do? Every time...

The questioner : ... to the best of their ability, and Allah (the Exalted) will support them with aid.

The Shaykh : Okay; how many years has it been for them?

Another questioner : 40 years.

The Shaykh: All right.

The questioner : That is to say—praise be to Allah—the people in occupied Palestine in '48, the Muslims, returned to Islam better than us now in Jordan.

The Shaykh : You have now gone off the topic—may Allah guide you—they became better than us, that is what we do not wish, but we return and say: erase the example you mentioned, and we also erase the example we mentioned; okay? We return to the ruling of Allah in the Shari'ah.

Another questioner : Is the reality, excuse me, in Makkah like our reality now...?

The Shaykh : You did not treat me fairly in the answer. If this is our research and we are on one methodology and one way, you did not bring an example, what did you call it, Tanzania or not?

The questioner : Tanzania.

The Shaykh : Is that not so? This is your thinking that this is a good example, I will not discuss it with you; because the truth is I do not know its history. In contrast to this, you know the history of Andalusia. Erase this with that, we leave the two examples, okay? And we return to the ruling of Allah (Mighty and Majestic); what is the ruling of Allah? Migration or not? Do you not know that the saying of the Messenger (peace be upon him): is a specific ruling, and that migration continues until the Day of Resurrection, do you know this or not?

Another questioner : No, I do not know.

The Shaykh : How do you not know?!

Another questioner : I did not learn it.

The Shaykh : Okay; may Allah reward you with good, be patient a little, this is an authentic hadith; and therefore the scholars said regarding the first hadith: does not mean the absolute negation of migration, but rather it means the negation of migration from Makkah to al-Madinah; why? Because the ruling of Allah was established for the Muslims in the land, there is no difference between al-Madinah and Makkah, the polytheists were dealt with, this is known; and therefore he (peace be upon him) said: .
The other hadith: This is a general, continuous ruling. A specific ruling for that situation mentioned by the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him); so—do not take me to task—because I am accustomed to frankness, and I cannot deviate from it; because deviating from it is a deviation from the Shari'ah, and from his saying (peace be upon him): I say: you deal with issues with your emotions—I say frankly—national, national, and you do not deal with the issue with your religious, scientific, Islamic emotions, yes, and therefore you return and bring an example that suits you, okay, this example suits you, but it does not suit your religion. I bring, for example, one that suits me but suits my religion, so there is a great difference between the two examples. So we must give examples that agree with the Shari'ah, and not bring examples that contradict the Shari'ah, and this is sufficient in this matter.

The questioner : This matter is finished. Another matter?

Another questioner : If you please, Shaykh.