Do you advise your students to respond to those who responded to you regarding the fatwa on emigrating from Palestine?
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The questioner: Shaykh, your advice to your students regarding the matter, I mean, I don't know, they want... Allah is All-Knowing about their affairs.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: That they stir things up and, I mean, blow the issue out of proportion.
The Shaykh: Correct.
The questioner: And I think that, I mean, responding to them, I mean, in their dialect, they want us to fall into it, or they want us to fall into it, I mean, to lead them to their objectives. So do you see, I mean, escalating this wave, or is it better, I mean, to forget it, and the wave, as you mentioned, will dissipate and go away, and then the truth will become apparent.
Another questioner: After Abu Malik's message.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner: I mean, especially after Abu Malik's last message.
The Shaykh: Yes, no, without a doubt, my original position is the negative one, I mean, which is taken against me by those very people, and many of them contacted me wanting to stir me up and incite me, and some of them appear to be among the editors in some of these newspapers, saying that we are dedicating a special platform to you, why don't you respond, and he pretends that, I mean, he is being fair to me, and that... and I said, then you write it. But now I don't have this time, and I know that if I wrote, I would be diverted from my scientific work to which I have dedicated myself. A second, third, and fourth response would come, and the group is free, and I would not be able to keep up with them; every time a response is issued against me, I would have to stand up to respond to it. Therefore, I truly see that we should not expand the confrontation of their responses with responses from us, but there must be a response that is scholarly and serves as a conclusion to this topic. And the language of our state, and indeed the language of our speech as well, says:[Al-Kahf 18:29] Absolute silence, no, there must be the writing of an article that is scholarly, and Brother Abu Malik's message, in my belief, is sufficient and comprehensive in this area, even if it contains some words, I mean, that are not in the domain of scholarship, but from the perspective of .
The questioner: Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh: But that's how it is, I mean.
The questioner: Allahu Akbar.
The Shaykh: That's how it is, I say, I agree with you completely that it is not good to expand the confrontation of those people with successive responses...
The questioner: May Allah preserve you, our professor.
The Shaykh: And you as well, if Allah wills.
The questioner: And may He keep you for us and for the Ummah.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you.
The questioner: We do not want to take up more of your time.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: That they stir things up and, I mean, blow the issue out of proportion.
The Shaykh: Correct.
The questioner: And I think that, I mean, responding to them, I mean, in their dialect, they want us to fall into it, or they want us to fall into it, I mean, to lead them to their objectives. So do you see, I mean, escalating this wave, or is it better, I mean, to forget it, and the wave, as you mentioned, will dissipate and go away, and then the truth will become apparent.
Another questioner: After Abu Malik's message.
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner: I mean, especially after Abu Malik's last message.
The Shaykh: Yes, no, without a doubt, my original position is the negative one, I mean, which is taken against me by those very people, and many of them contacted me wanting to stir me up and incite me, and some of them appear to be among the editors in some of these newspapers, saying that we are dedicating a special platform to you, why don't you respond, and he pretends that, I mean, he is being fair to me, and that... and I said, then you write it. But now I don't have this time, and I know that if I wrote, I would be diverted from my scientific work to which I have dedicated myself. A second, third, and fourth response would come, and the group is free, and I would not be able to keep up with them; every time a response is issued against me, I would have to stand up to respond to it. Therefore, I truly see that we should not expand the confrontation of their responses with responses from us, but there must be a response that is scholarly and serves as a conclusion to this topic. And the language of our state, and indeed the language of our speech as well, says:
so whoever wills - let him believe; and whoever wills - let him disbelieve
فَمَنْ شَاءَ فَلْيُؤْمِنْ وَمَنْ شَاءَ فَلْيَكْفُرْAnd whoever repays
وَلَمَنِ انْتَصَرَThe questioner: Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh: But that's how it is, I mean.
The questioner: Allahu Akbar.
The Shaykh: That's how it is, I say, I agree with you completely that it is not good to expand the confrontation of those people with successive responses...
The questioner: May Allah preserve you, our professor.
The Shaykh: And you as well, if Allah wills.
The questioner: And may He keep you for us and for the Ummah.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you.
The questioner: We do not want to take up more of your time.
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