We ask the Shaykh to clarify the response to those who rejected your fatwa on the obligation of emigrating from an occupied country where vice has spread to a Muslim country where it does not exist
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The questioner : No blame, O our Shaykh.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : And if you, O our Shaykh, have touched upon this topic!
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : When I touch upon the topic of emigration.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : I ask your pardon.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : We are traveling to Abu Dhabi now, if Allah wills, and the fatwa may be transmitted there. Until now, from all sides, we have heard from only one side, the opponents, meaning through you or through your tongue!
The Shaykh : The answer has already been given, may Allah bless you, in a printed treatise!
The questioner : I know, I read Abu Malik’s treatise!
The Shaykh : Ah, good.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : Most of it is either criticism or literary rhetoric, meaning just a string of words!
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: No, no.
The questioner : Except for some, meaning the end of the treatise, approximately five or six pages, these contain the response, but I say we fear this before people, until we say we heard it from the Shaykh’s mouth to our ears, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good and bless you.
The Shaykh : And may He reward you.
The questioner : We transmit, if Allah wills, the good and the truth.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : But may Allah bless you, if the treatise contains the three types you mentioned: criticism, literary rhetoric, and what you said are jurisprudential points, but your words lead to this, well, are these jurisprudential points not sufficient to clarify the Shaykh’s opinion?!
The questioner : I have?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : From your tongue is better.
The Shaykh : This is a second research!
The questioner : Especially your introduction, O Shaykh!
The Shaykh : This is a second research, may Allah bless you, and we thank you for your good opinion of your brother, but not everything can I speak about. This topic, as the opponents and people of desires and aims especially want it, requires me to compose a treatise on the topic, and I feel this, but I do not find this free time to silence the opponents of desires who will never be silent. Is it not enough for them a verse of the Qur’an:[An-Nisa 4:97], is it not enough for them his saying (peace be upon him): and many hadiths, rather, is it not enough for them the hadith with which Imam al-Bukhari opened his "Sahih," which is the hadith of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab: Sunan Abi Dawud 2201Sahih (Al-Albani) O people, these writers, these preachers, they denied what is known of the religion by necessity, but we regret that we have reached such a time in which blame is lifted from students of knowledge, because they do not live in an academic atmosphere, because there are no scholars. How can they deny that a Muslim emigrates from one country to another just to seek knowledge?! Just to seek knowledge, can a person deny this?! Well, a man emigrates from a Muslim country to a Muslim country because the country he is emigrating to, in terms of knowledge, conduct, and worship, and so on, is better than that Muslim country, not a country occupied by the disbeliever where licentiousness, open sinfulness, and lewdness are spread, and so on, from a Muslim country with good and blessing, but another Muslim country is better, if the detail is correct, it is better, it takes the place of better, as is known!
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : And if you, O our Shaykh, have touched upon this topic!
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner : When I touch upon the topic of emigration.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : I ask your pardon.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : We are traveling to Abu Dhabi now, if Allah wills, and the fatwa may be transmitted there. Until now, from all sides, we have heard from only one side, the opponents, meaning through you or through your tongue!
The Shaykh : The answer has already been given, may Allah bless you, in a printed treatise!
The questioner : I know, I read Abu Malik’s treatise!
The Shaykh : Ah, good.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The questioner : Most of it is either criticism or literary rhetoric, meaning just a string of words!
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: No, no.
The questioner : Except for some, meaning the end of the treatise, approximately five or six pages, these contain the response, but I say we fear this before people, until we say we heard it from the Shaykh’s mouth to our ears, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good and bless you.
The Shaykh : And may He reward you.
The questioner : We transmit, if Allah wills, the good and the truth.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : But may Allah bless you, if the treatise contains the three types you mentioned: criticism, literary rhetoric, and what you said are jurisprudential points, but your words lead to this, well, are these jurisprudential points not sufficient to clarify the Shaykh’s opinion?!
The questioner : I have?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : From your tongue is better.
The Shaykh : This is a second research!
The questioner : Especially your introduction, O Shaykh!
The Shaykh : This is a second research, may Allah bless you, and we thank you for your good opinion of your brother, but not everything can I speak about. This topic, as the opponents and people of desires and aims especially want it, requires me to compose a treatise on the topic, and I feel this, but I do not find this free time to silence the opponents of desires who will never be silent. Is it not enough for them a verse of the Qur’an:
Was not the earth of Allah spacious [enough] for you to emigrate therein?
أَلَمْ تَكُنْ أَرْضُ اللَّهِ وَاسِعَةً فَتُهَاجِرُوا فِيهَاActions are by intentions, and every person will have what he intended, so whoever emigrated to Allah and His Messenger, his emigration is to Allah and His Messenger
الهجرة باقية ما دام الجهادActions are to be judged only by intentions and a man will have only what he intended. When one’s emigration is to Allaah and His Apostle, his emigration is to Allaah and His Apostle
إنما الأعمال بالنيات ، وإنَّما لكلِّ امرئ ما نوى ، فَمَن كانت هجرته الى الله ورسوله فهجرته الى الله ورسوله
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