His advice to the upright brothers in Algeria and Libya.

The Shaykh : The point I intended to reach in commenting on this image is what came in the question of one of our brothers regarding the oppression, pressure, and perhaps torture and perhaps killing that befalls our brothers, as it happens and as has become widespread and common, unfortunately, what befalls our Muslim brothers in Algeria, and then in Libya, from the wicked, oppressive rulers, who fight them in a way they do not fight the atheists. So he requestedThe questioner : the aforementioned advice, which I direct to those brothers residing in those lands. My advice, before they declare disbelief, given their intense hostility toward the Muslims in those lands, when it reached us that they could not openly call to the call of truth, we told them: you must migrate to an Islamic land where you can perform the rituals of your religion. But since the pressure has intensified and the distress has become severe, migration has become confirmed, following the first migrants who migrated from Makkah to Abyssinia first, and then from Makkah to the Prophet’s city second. Let no one understand from his saying, peace and blessings be upon him: Let no one understand that migration has ceased. You must know, and this is from the knowledge that is obligatory to learn, as I mentioned earlier, that knowledge comes before faith. You must know that there are two migrations: one that was lifted, and one that remains and continues until the Day of Resurrection. The migration that was lifted is the one the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, referred to in this last hadith: There is no migration to the city. This is the meaning of the hadith: there is no migration to the city after the conquest. Migration from Makkah to the city was obligatory for the Muslims residing there under the pressure of the disbelievers before the conquest of Makkah. And although the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, said this hadith: He preserved this ruling until the end of his life, peace and blessings be upon him, which is that it is not permissible for a migrant from Makkah to the city, if he performs Hajj or 'Umrah, to stay in Makkah for more than three days, in order to preserve his struggle in his migration from Makkah to the city. So he should not long for his original homeland, perform his Hajj, perform his 'Umrah, stay in Makkah for three days, and then return to the city. This is the migration that was lifted. As for the second migration, it continues until the Day of Resurrection, as came in some reports, and it is from the inherited creed, passed down from generation to generation, that migration continues like jihad until the Day of Resurrection. So migration does not cease from a land where believers are tortured, pressured, and prevented from declaring the rituals of their religion. It is not permissible for them to remain in that place; rather, they must migrate. Especially the Muslims whom Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has guided, and who are in lands of disbelief, such as the Germans, the Belgians, the Dutch, and the like. If Allah guides some of them, it is not permissible for them to remain in lands of disbelief; rather, they must migrate to lands of Islam. Why? So that they may learn their religion, because if they remain there, they will continue to understand only a very, very little of Islam. And if this is the ruling for disbelievers who embraced Islam in their lands, lands of disbelief, that they must migrate, then it is all the more so that it is obligatory for the Muslims who migrated from lands of Islam—and I seek forgiveness from Allah for my saying: migrated. The correct thing is to say: the Muslims who traveled from their Islamic lands to lands of disbelief. For these, it is an even more obligatory duty to return to their Muslim land, because those who embraced Islam from among the disbelievers must migrate to lands of Islam, so how would the Muslims who traveled from their lands to lands of disbelief and misguidance not migrate to lands of Islam? And therefore, among the deviations present today is the travel of many Muslims from lands of Islam to lands of disbelief. We say this as a legal ruling. However, there may be individuals compelled to travel from a land of Islam to a land of disbelief, and we do not dwell on this, because dire necessities permit the prohibited, and because dire necessities are measured by their extent and have specific rulings. Rather, the rule is that it is not permissible for a Muslim to leave a land of Islam for a land of disbelief except for a compelling dire necessity. So if there is a land where the Muslims have been afflicted by their rulers, these people have two things to do: the first is what I mentioned earlier, that those who are oppressed in that land by their rulers should migrate to another Islamic land. And still, praise be to Allah, some of these lands still have a remnant of good, and they are much better than those lands where Muslims are compelled to disbelieve in Allah and His Messenger, even if it is practical disbelief. As for if it is said that they cannot migrate, I say here: our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, says: And the authentic hadith says: So if the weak, oppressed Muslim cannot migrate from his land, then we say: you must gird yourself with patience, because part of the completion of the previously mentioned image is: So either migration...
Our speech has reached His saying, Blessed and Exalted is He: We said that it is obligatory for the weak among the believers whom the open sinner or disbeliever ruler oppresses, so that he does not let them enjoy the rituals of their religion. We said, with some explanation and detail, that it is obligatory for him to migrate from that land to an Islamic land where he can perform his religious obligations. As for what the one who cannot migrate should do, I say: the word "cannot" or the one who says "I cannot do such and such" is often placed in the wrong context. For example, he may not be able to travel by plane and says "I cannot travel," meaning by plane, but we say he may be able to travel by car. Then he may say he cannot travel by car, and so we descend with him, removing every possibility he relies on to justify his saying "I cannot migrate from this land where I am oppressed." We say: as a last resort, can he not ride a motorbike? Can he not ride on his legs and cover long distances? I say: perhaps, and indeed, he may be able to. In that case, it is not permissible for a young, strong man to claim that he cannot travel by plane, by car, or by animal, when he is able, for example, to travel on his feet, because he is a young, strong man. So if all these means and all these paths are blocked before that oppressed Muslim, then what do we say to him? Be patient. There is no cure there except that he commands himself to be patient and to remember what came regarding that in the Book and the Sunnah. From that, for example, is His saying, Blessed and Exalted is He: So as it is said: "The last of medicines is cauterization." If the paths of migration are truly blocked, and not metaphorically as we depicted or explained earlier, if the paths are blocked before that oppressed Muslim, then he has nothing except, as we said before, to gird himself with patience and to remember the reward of the patient in the trial of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and His decree. From that is his saying, peace and blessings be upon him: Distress means what harms him. And from that is also his saying, peace and blessings be upon him: With the pincers. The people of health and well-being would wish on the Day of Resurrection that their flesh had been cut with pincers. Why? Because of the greatness of the reward of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, for the patient! So we advise these brothers to do what they can to escape with their religion. If they are sincere that they cannot escape with their religion, then they have nothing except to be patient, to be patient for the decree of their Lord. A few nights ago, almost every night, a question comes to me from some of the oppressed Muslims in Algeria, a question that seems to be written, because the trial is one. He saysThe questioner : You must have heard about what has befallen the Muslims in Algeria, and so on? We say, yes. He said, "Now, if the police encounter a bearded Muslim on the street wearing a shirt, they take him and demand his identification papers or passport or something similar. Then they order him to return to his house, shave his beard, and remove his shirt if he wants to get the papers; otherwise, they will pursue him and shave his beard against his will." A question that is repeated every night: "What is your opinion?" I say to them, "What is my opinion?!" The ruling in Islamic law is well known: These people are oppressing the Muslims more than the disbelievers oppress them. These oppressed Muslims who emigrate from some of these countries where the Muslims have been afflicted by their rulers find in the lands of disbelief a religious freedom that they do not find in those countries. So I say: If you can bear being without your papers, then you should be patient and remain as you are. If you cannot bear it, be patient until they shave your beard; you are not the one shaving it, nor are you cooperating with them by your own action. You are not committing a sin, but if a sin is committed against your will, you are not held accountable, and you are not obligated. And if the Muslims are afflicted with such misfortunes, it is less than what some of the early Muslims suffered before Islam and in the early days of Islam. In the Meccan period, some of the Muslims complained of the oppression and torment they were receiving from the polytheists, and it seemed as if the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) felt weariness, and despair and weakness crept into their hearts. So he recited to them the previous verse: He (peace be upon him) said, as an explanation of this verse: So he (peace be upon him) is telling his companions who complained to him of the pressure they were under: "This that has befallen you is something insignificant and cannot be compared to what befall the first Muslims who were sawn in two." And for this reason, if the matter reaches a type of torture, the tortured ones should only be patient. And you all know that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would pass by the family of Yasir, where Yasir and his wife were being tortured by the polytheists, what did he say to them? This is the remedy for one who truly cannot emigrate from that country where the rulers oppress the Muslims. They have no choice but patience. This is all I have in my answer to this question. Please, go ahead.