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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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If a person is in a country other than his own, is he held to the custom of his own country or to the custom of the country he is in?

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The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner : If a person moves from one country to another, does he follow the custom of the country he came from? ... .

The Shaykh : In any case, it comes back to his intention. In my opinion, a person who knows a previous language and has grown up with it will not intend anything else. You have words that you use for meanings we do not know, and we have things you do not know. If you swear by something you know and we do not, are we to hold you to our language or to your language?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : Yes?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : To your language. Yes, that is right. Yes? Ibrahim?
Source alathar.net

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