Clarify your ruling on the emigration of the people of Palestine from Palestine, as the picture is not clear to many people

The questioner : ... regarding the current ruling on the emigration of the people of Palestine from Palestine. Many people do not have a clear picture of it and do not know what it entails. I wish you would clarify this picture in detail. May Allah reward you with all good.

The Shaykh : This is actually a good question, but I impose a condition.

The questioner: Go ahead.

The Shaykh : Is it not possible that we might be afflicted with another poor person?

The questioner : ... eating and gatherings ... .

The Shaykh : It is like each other.

The questioner : It is like each other, O Shaykh, say it.

The Shaykh: All right.

The questioner : And your reward is from Allah ... .

The Shaykh : First: A truly knowledgeable and juristic Muslim cannot deny the legitimacy of emigration; because, first, there is an authentic hadith from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) who said: , so they are two companions that do not separate. Second: Emigration is among the beliefs transmitted from generation to generation, from the Salaf to the Khalaf. But this emigration is established not only in the hadith that pairs emigration with jihad, but emigration is established in the Book of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) in the verse concerning the oppressed, in which Allah (Mighty and Majestic) addresses them when they say, either in words or in reality: , so our Lord (Blessed and Exalted is He) answers them by saying: ; so emigration is not something a Muslim who knows what comes out of his mouth can deny, as for the one who does not know what comes out of his mouth, we have no conversation with him. This emigration is divided into categories. First, the emigration mentioned in the verse and the hadith is a physical, earthly emigration that requires a person to leave to escape from oppression, to escape from fitnah in his religion, to escape from death by oppression, transgression, and aggression. This emigration relates to leaving the country in which he lives. Many people think that emigration is not prescribed, and I do not say at the outset that it is not obligatory, they think that emigration is not prescribed except in the case where the Muslim is exposed to leaving his religion. The matter is broader than that. If a Muslim lives in one country, an Islamic country, but he lives in an area infested with corruption, bad morals, and deviation from the Shari'ah, whether in whole or in part, let us give an example: he lives in some of our countries in Syria, in the Christian quarter, it is called the Christian quarter, and it is called the Jewish quarter, while in another area, all the quarters are Islamic. Islam commands this one who is afflicted for a short or long time to live in the Jewish or Christian quarter to emigrate from this land to the other land. Why? Because the corrupt environment, religiously or morally, is exactly like a corrupt environment with a plague, whether this plague is temporary or permanent. Just as it is obligatory for the Muslim to be cautious so as not to be affected by that medically corrupt environment, either he must be completely detached from it, or he must take the means of protection against it, as you know this better than we do, it varies from one situation to another. So it is exactly the same regarding the morally infested environment. I gave an example earlier of the Jewish and Christian quarters, and the country is a Muslim country and the ruler is a Muslim ruler, and I do not say like our rulers today, but like the previous rulers who ruled by what Allah revealed. But among the virtues of Islam was that it guaranteed the freedom of those who practice a religion other than Islam. But as the Lord of mankind said: , so in return for this, they have safety for their souls, their religions, their wealth, and their honor. And so they took a special quarter for themselves. But some weak Muslims, and those who may seek immediate gain from living with disbelievers and polytheists, may prefer to live with such people. Is the Muslim commanded to emigrate from this quarter or this neighborhood to another quarter that does not have the plague of shirk or disbelief or moral corruption? The answer is yes. Where do we take this from? It is not necessary to take it from the word emigration, but we take it from other words that give the meaning of the emigration mentioned in the verse and the hadith. And the Salafi creed, you have all certainly heard at some point the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): ; meaning: he gives you for free, ; the owner of the bellows, ; so the Messenger of Allah tells you: do not sit with one who harms you with a type of harm, even if it is by a bad smell, but sit with one from whom you benefit for free, with dirhams and dinars, , on this he (peace and blessings be upon him) said excuse me , this hadith and that and what is in their meaning expand the circle of emigration in the mind of the Muslim who is well-versed in the Book and the Sunnah, as for the mind of the rigid one, he thinks that emigration has been abrogated because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: , the scholars mention that the emigration negated in this hadith is not the past emigration with jihad to the Day of Resurrection. This is the emigration of the first Muslims from Makkah to al-Madinah when our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) opened Makkah for his Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) returned to al-Madinah rewarded and victorious, he said: to the end of the hadith, but emigration continues in its broadest meanings, and I have brought you the most gentle of the meanings in the last hadith: , now I first do not advise only the Palestinians, but I advise every Muslim who lives in an environment in which he cannot perform the rituals of his religion first, and then preserve his Islamic morals second, and not only he, but he is, as he (peace be upon him) said: , so he is responsible for his children who grow up in a morally infested environment; so he must flee as he said: .