What is the ruling on emigrating from Algeria due to the oppression of the upright?
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The questioner : Hello.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Hello.
The Shaykh : Hello, yes.
The questioner : Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings and His forgiveness.
The questioner : May Allah welcome you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah give you life.
The questioner : Your brother in Allah, Ismail from Algeria, and a student of religious knowledge.
The Shaykh : Welcome.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Welcome and welcome.
The questioner : May Allah welcome you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah give you life.
The questioner : And your student through the tape, and I have listened to you for nearly sixty tapes.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The questioner : ... all of them, and praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh : What did you do with them?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : What did you do with them?
The questioner : I listened to them.
The Shaykh : All of them?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good and benefit you with them.
The questioner : Amen, O Lord of the worlds, and may Allah make them a proof for us on the Day of Resurrection.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you.
The questioner : May Allah bless you, O Shaykh, and I recently listened to you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : I listened to a tape of yours.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Titled "The Obligation of Emigrating from Lands of Fitnah."
The Shaykh: Yes, by Allah.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : It caused me confusion and astonishment.
The Shaykh : Why?
The questioner : I will tell you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : The subject of this tape revolves, as you know, around the obligation of emigrating from the country where Muslims are oppressed by their rulers.
The Shaykh: Yes, by Allah.
The questioner : What astonished me, especially since when I listened to this tape, I immediately wanted to comply with this command, but immediately after, when I thought of leaving for the land of the Hijaz, I found that residence in that land is strictly forbidden for every Algerian.
The Shaykh : Unfortunately.
The questioner : And I naturally wanted to know your opinion on this matter, on this issue.
The Shaykh : Now, regarding this question, I have nothing to say; I am not the head of the Saudi state for you to ask me such a question. What do you think my answer would be? But I will find for you a way much easier than this which has not been facilitated for you.
The questioner : Yes, that is what I wanted.
The Shaykh : And I am with you in what you wanted and what I wanted.
The questioner : May Allah bless you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you. You are Algerian, do you live in the capital?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Then flee from it to a village far from it, so you are safe from the fitnah.
The questioner : O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : I am sorry to tell you that all the villages are like their sister.
The Shaykh : I heard from some of the Algerian brothers, like you, I heard from some of the Algerian brothers, students of knowledge like you, the opposite of this statement, that the situation is completely different between what happens in the capital and what happens in some villages far from the capital. For example, in the capital, they force the bearded Muslim youth to shave their beards, but it is not so in some remote villages, is it not so?
The questioner : Yes, truly.
The Shaykh : So may Allah bless you, the matter is not the same.
The questioner : I wanted to tell you that the matter here is more cunning and more severe, meaning in the area of the capital. But if a person thinks of going to a country remote from the capital, that person appears to that village or that country remote from the capital as if he is a foreigner, so people quickly inform the police about him, and they inflict harm upon him. Do you see, O Shaykh, what I wanted to say?
The Shaykh : Yes, I heard what you wanted.
The questioner : I thought, I am a young man from the capital.
The Shaykh : I heard.
The questioner : To the desert, or to the west, or to the east, so as soon as he settles in that village or that country, people naturally become confused about his matter, and quickly inform the police about him, and I am exposed to various kinds of torment, which only he who has tried it knows.
The Shaykh : In any case, I also heard the opposite of what you say, and the reconciliation of these contradictory statements and reports is that the villages and countries far from the capital cannot have the same situation. The evil may be lighter in one country than in another, and more severe in one country than in another. As for them being the same, it is very difficult for us to see that. For example, here in Jordan, the situation differs between the capital and Aqaba, between the capital and a town 30 or 40 kilometers between us, there is a very great difference. And in any case, if you went and were permitted to go to the Hijaz, do you think you would not see evil there?
The questioner : No doubt I would see evil.
The Shaykh : That is so, but the issue, as it is said, "Hanani, some evil is lighter than some."
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : So when we speak of emigration, this emigration is first conditioned by ability, for Allah does not burden a soul beyond its capacity. Then it is relative, from, let us say, from one country to another country under one ruling in one state, this is the least. Then better than that is from one region to another neighboring region, which may be better than the country of his origin, and so on, until the matter reaches, if the doors of emigration are blocked before the Muslim, God forbid, in all Islamic countries, that he emigrates to a country from the lands of disbelief. But even so, from the perspective of repelling the greater evil with the lesser evil, he does not go to a country famous for licentiousness, moral chaos, and shedding of blood, and the like, more than another country, or for example, where Muslims are oppressed more than in another country. Rather, he chooses a country from those disbelieving countries that is known by experience to give complete freedom to residents in that region, no difference between a Muslim, a Jew, and a Christian, in their claim that they live under a democratic system. So the rule is, "Hanani, some evil is lighter than some." If it is not facilitated for you to go to the Hijaz and you are prevented from entering, and this is naturally not permissible in the original ruling of the Shari'ah, but you can move to another country. I, as you know, am originally from Albania, and we emigrated from Albania to Syria, then I emigrated from Syria to Oman.[An-Nisa 4:97] This is the text of the Noble Qur'an.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So you must then resolve the matter and resolve to apply the ruling of the Shari'ah, which is to save yourself from the great fitnah, even if it is to the lesser fitnah. This is the summary of what I have.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Hello.
The Shaykh : Hello, yes.
The questioner : Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings.
The Shaykh : And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings and His forgiveness.
The questioner : May Allah welcome you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah give you life.
The questioner : Your brother in Allah, Ismail from Algeria, and a student of religious knowledge.
The Shaykh : Welcome.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Welcome and welcome.
The questioner : May Allah welcome you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah give you life.
The questioner : And your student through the tape, and I have listened to you for nearly sixty tapes.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The questioner : ... all of them, and praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh : What did you do with them?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : What did you do with them?
The questioner : I listened to them.
The Shaykh : All of them?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good and benefit you with them.
The questioner : Amen, O Lord of the worlds, and may Allah make them a proof for us on the Day of Resurrection.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you.
The questioner : May Allah bless you, O Shaykh, and I recently listened to you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : I listened to a tape of yours.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Titled "The Obligation of Emigrating from Lands of Fitnah."
The Shaykh: Yes, by Allah.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : It caused me confusion and astonishment.
The Shaykh : Why?
The questioner : I will tell you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : The subject of this tape revolves, as you know, around the obligation of emigrating from the country where Muslims are oppressed by their rulers.
The Shaykh: Yes, by Allah.
The questioner : What astonished me, especially since when I listened to this tape, I immediately wanted to comply with this command, but immediately after, when I thought of leaving for the land of the Hijaz, I found that residence in that land is strictly forbidden for every Algerian.
The Shaykh : Unfortunately.
The questioner : And I naturally wanted to know your opinion on this matter, on this issue.
The Shaykh : Now, regarding this question, I have nothing to say; I am not the head of the Saudi state for you to ask me such a question. What do you think my answer would be? But I will find for you a way much easier than this which has not been facilitated for you.
The questioner : Yes, that is what I wanted.
The Shaykh : And I am with you in what you wanted and what I wanted.
The questioner : May Allah bless you, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you. You are Algerian, do you live in the capital?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Then flee from it to a village far from it, so you are safe from the fitnah.
The questioner : O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : I am sorry to tell you that all the villages are like their sister.
The Shaykh : I heard from some of the Algerian brothers, like you, I heard from some of the Algerian brothers, students of knowledge like you, the opposite of this statement, that the situation is completely different between what happens in the capital and what happens in some villages far from the capital. For example, in the capital, they force the bearded Muslim youth to shave their beards, but it is not so in some remote villages, is it not so?
The questioner : Yes, truly.
The Shaykh : So may Allah bless you, the matter is not the same.
The questioner : I wanted to tell you that the matter here is more cunning and more severe, meaning in the area of the capital. But if a person thinks of going to a country remote from the capital, that person appears to that village or that country remote from the capital as if he is a foreigner, so people quickly inform the police about him, and they inflict harm upon him. Do you see, O Shaykh, what I wanted to say?
The Shaykh : Yes, I heard what you wanted.
The questioner : I thought, I am a young man from the capital.
The Shaykh : I heard.
The questioner : To the desert, or to the west, or to the east, so as soon as he settles in that village or that country, people naturally become confused about his matter, and quickly inform the police about him, and I am exposed to various kinds of torment, which only he who has tried it knows.
The Shaykh : In any case, I also heard the opposite of what you say, and the reconciliation of these contradictory statements and reports is that the villages and countries far from the capital cannot have the same situation. The evil may be lighter in one country than in another, and more severe in one country than in another. As for them being the same, it is very difficult for us to see that. For example, here in Jordan, the situation differs between the capital and Aqaba, between the capital and a town 30 or 40 kilometers between us, there is a very great difference. And in any case, if you went and were permitted to go to the Hijaz, do you think you would not see evil there?
The questioner : No doubt I would see evil.
The Shaykh : That is so, but the issue, as it is said, "Hanani, some evil is lighter than some."
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : So when we speak of emigration, this emigration is first conditioned by ability, for Allah does not burden a soul beyond its capacity. Then it is relative, from, let us say, from one country to another country under one ruling in one state, this is the least. Then better than that is from one region to another neighboring region, which may be better than the country of his origin, and so on, until the matter reaches, if the doors of emigration are blocked before the Muslim, God forbid, in all Islamic countries, that he emigrates to a country from the lands of disbelief. But even so, from the perspective of repelling the greater evil with the lesser evil, he does not go to a country famous for licentiousness, moral chaos, and shedding of blood, and the like, more than another country, or for example, where Muslims are oppressed more than in another country. Rather, he chooses a country from those disbelieving countries that is known by experience to give complete freedom to residents in that region, no difference between a Muslim, a Jew, and a Christian, in their claim that they live under a democratic system. So the rule is, "Hanani, some evil is lighter than some." If it is not facilitated for you to go to the Hijaz and you are prevented from entering, and this is naturally not permissible in the original ruling of the Shari'ah, but you can move to another country. I, as you know, am originally from Albania, and we emigrated from Albania to Syria, then I emigrated from Syria to Oman.
Was not the earth of Allah spacious [enough] for you to emigrate therein?
أَلَمْ تَكُنْ أَرْضُ اللَّهِ وَاسِعَةً فَتُهَاجِرُوا فِيهَاThe questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So you must then resolve the matter and resolve to apply the ruling of the Shari'ah, which is to save yourself from the great fitnah, even if it is to the lesser fitnah. This is the summary of what I have.
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