Continuation of the explanation of the statement of Imam al-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) regarding what he quoted: "."

The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful:
The author (may Allah have mercy on him) said regarding the remainder of the hadith of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: And we said: This matter has come to pass, for Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas was granted a long life until Allah opened up many lands of disbelief through his hands, so the Muslims benefited from that and the disbelievers were harmed by it. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The second is that none of them returns to Makkah after having left it as a migrant to Allah and His Messenger, because when you leave a land as a migrant to Allah and His Messenger, it is like money that you give in charity; the land is like the money you give in charity, and you cannot return to it. And so it is with everything a person leaves for the sake of Allah; he does not return to it. Among the things in which many people have been guided is removing the television from their homes as repentance to Allah and to distance themselves from it and the evils contained in it. These people said: Is it possible for us to bring it back into the house now?
We say: No, after you have removed it for the sake of Allah, do not bring it back, because when a person leaves something for the sake of Allah and abandons something for the sake of Allah, he does not return to it. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said that he asked his Lord to carry through the migration of his companions. He said: This is the opposite of what the atheists say today, where they describe Islam as reactionary, and they say: "Progress is for a person to strip himself of Islam and be a secularist", meaning a secularist in the sense that he does not distinguish between faith and disbelief, may Allah protect us, nor between open sinfulness and obedience. Faith is truly progress; the progressives are the believers, and progress is achieved through faith. And apostasy is a regression on the heels, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said here: