A man discusses with the Shaykh the topic of the fatwa on emigrating from Palestine.
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The questioner : I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Shaytan. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and blessings and peace be upon the noblest of messengers, our master Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and upon his family and all his Companions, and the Tabi'un, and those who follow them in excellence until the Day of Judgment. As for what follows: I am among those who have read what was written in the constitution, and I am among those who heard a tape in which what was said about the fatwa was mentioned. In truth, I do not know about this fatwa, because many have mentioned that this fatwa is old. So my first question is: how long has this fatwa regarding the emigration of the people of Palestine been in effect? That is the first point. Second, I truly heard your words just now and your response, and I was very pleased with the last part of it, in the last five minutes. What I want to say, and may Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) expand our hearts for the truth.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
The questioner : I am among those who were born in Palestine and among those who lived there until nineteen years ago. This period includes the period of Egyptian rule over the Gaza Strip, from which I was displaced. I do not say "I emigrated" because I was young. It also includes seven years after the Jews occupied all of Palestine.
The Shaykh : Allah is the Helper.
The questioner : Allah is the Helper. I spent these seven years in one of the refugee camps called al-Buraj, which is located...
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : ...located between Gaza and Dayr al-Balah, from the camps called the central camps. My family is still there. A question may come to mind: since you do not agree with emigration or displacement, how did I emigrate? I did not emigrate. In truth, I left for Hajj.
The Shaykh : I was displaced.
The questioner : Yes, I was displaced. I left for Hajj, and then the Jews canceled the permit, so I was unable to return. However, my belief that people must remain in Palestine stems from several facts. First, I did not leave a major city in Palestine without visiting it during these seven years, because my study as a history teacher and my teaching of it lacked personal experience. So I would travel through Palestine from beginning to end. I was surprised to find that in some mosques in cities whose people had emigrated, no one responded to the call of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) except one other person besides me. We prayed as three in a mosque in the city of al-Ludd, and another mosque in the city of Beersheba. I went there with the intention of praying because I was in Beersheba and looking around, I saw no less than seven thousand Muslims in Beersheba on a market day. I went to pray, and I assumed that I would at least find a mu'adhdhin and an imam, as I had found in al-Ludd, which does not have this large number. I was surprised to find the mosque empty of everyone, and the Jews had turned it into a museum containing some Bedouin tools used in their lives. I took a lesson from this, and I think, and perhaps the truth is in this, that every town from which its people emigrated turned into a Jewish town. My view is that the Muslims who remained in Palestine suffer from the injustice of the Jews and the arbitrariness of the Jews, which is well-known and does not need explanation. This applies to the country, whether in Jaffa, Haifa, Nazareth, or Acre. I have seen this with my own eyes. And in the villages that follow these cities, these are the people who preserved the Islam of Palestine. I do not say its Arabness, for we see that this is Islamic land since its conquest by the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh : Your saying "we see" is not precise.
The questioner : ... I did not cut you off, I only inquired about the knot. So wait for me and let your heart be broad for me.
The Shaykh : So this is in exchange for that, hehe.
The questioner : Hehe. So I am the one who wants you to take into consideration, because you are a Shaykh who is followed.
The Shaykh : Pardon me.
The questioner : A Shaykh who is followed, excuse me, or what, excuse me, this is the truth. You are a Shaykh who is followed, as I said, and many of our brothers follow you, and perhaps some of them fear to question you. So I am a representative for those who are afraid, because, if Allah wills, I do not fear you, and I, if Allah wills, fear Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and revere Him.
The Shaykh : That is what we want.
The questioner : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh : And it is not a boycott.
The questioner : So the matter, the matter is truly that I am among those who want to know the truth, and may Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) guide us to it. And I am among those who want to clear their conscience, because, believe me, I heard someone describe you as Jewish, and I heard someone say to me: "Are you surprised by this fatwa from him?" I said: "Glory be to Allah, how could I not be surprised? I have known him for twenty years. You may not remember, but we met in the Holy Makkah at the door of one of the mosques during the Hajj of the year 1973, and you reminded me of a matter regarding 'Umrah after Hajj, and that it is the 'Umrah of the menstruating woman and the woman with post-natal bleeding, if you..."
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : ...I remember that completely. And I am among those who studied from your books forty years ago.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The questioner : Yes, by the grace of Allah. The matter is that knowledge is a bond of kinship among its people. So when I was surprised, one of them said to me: "Are you surprised by that from him?" I said: "Yes, I am surprised." He said: "He is a Mason."
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : Without an oath or vow. And this was said in an office near your office, with only meters between them. So I said: "A Mason?" He said to me: "Yes." I said: "Glory be to Allah the Great." Three people besides me were present for this conversation, and the time was not sufficient for verification, although the intention to verify was present.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : You are equipped.
The questioner : So the matter, the matter now is what I want to put before you for you to think about carefully, and I ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to help you with yourself as He helps me with myself.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : By not judging us by statements we have previously made, which makes it difficult for us to retract them. O honorable...The Shaykh .
The Shaykh : You have done well.
The questioner : ...our people in Palestine are fighting the Jew with stones, knives, pistols, and cannons. These are not those who accepted humiliation and engaged in raising the Jews' pigs. And when I say pigs, I mean it literally. The Jews in their religion forbid the pig, but in their material belief for profit, they raise pigs.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : This is the reality, O honorable...The Shaykh : ...some people, under the name of Muslim, under the name of Muslim, and Islam is innocent of them, because Islam does not accept this. Believe me, I saw in the Shafa 'Amr area, where 'Amr ibn al-'As (may Allah be pleased with him) was healed, I passed by a place to get into a car, and the smell was the worst smell imaginable.
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : And I have never smelled a worse smell in my life.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : But I was forced to pass by its side. I asked the one with me, I said: "What is this smell?" I mean, God forbid, one smells smells in the draining of septic tanks and such, but a smell like this has not passed me. He said to me: "Do you not know what this wall overlooks?" I said: "No." He said: "It overlooks a pig farm. May Allah protect you."
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : And there was a man coming out of it, a man coming out of it, his appearance indicated that he was an Arab. We said to him—peace be upon him— "Peace be upon you, and upon you be peace. What do you do, my brother? Because the smell is on him too."
The Shaykh : Also.
The questioner : So he said: "I work in this farm."
The Shaykh : This has a relationship to the previous research.
The questioner : Hehe. O my dear brother, these are the ones who fight the Jews, whether in Umm al-Fahm, which they named Umm al-Nur after Allah honored it with guidance, and these are the ones whom the Jews previously captured in the Jallad operation, and they were young men from the occupied land of the Triangle in 1948, and they carried out an operation in which they killed a number of Jews. And these are the ones whose news we hear in the Gaza Strip, where Rabin said one day: "I want to wake up from my sleep and see that Gaza has been plowed by the sea and drowned." So imagine that these people, in their residence...
The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
The questioner : I am among those who were born in Palestine and among those who lived there until nineteen years ago. This period includes the period of Egyptian rule over the Gaza Strip, from which I was displaced. I do not say "I emigrated" because I was young. It also includes seven years after the Jews occupied all of Palestine.
The Shaykh : Allah is the Helper.
The questioner : Allah is the Helper. I spent these seven years in one of the refugee camps called al-Buraj, which is located...
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The questioner : ...located between Gaza and Dayr al-Balah, from the camps called the central camps. My family is still there. A question may come to mind: since you do not agree with emigration or displacement, how did I emigrate? I did not emigrate. In truth, I left for Hajj.
The Shaykh : I was displaced.
The questioner : Yes, I was displaced. I left for Hajj, and then the Jews canceled the permit, so I was unable to return. However, my belief that people must remain in Palestine stems from several facts. First, I did not leave a major city in Palestine without visiting it during these seven years, because my study as a history teacher and my teaching of it lacked personal experience. So I would travel through Palestine from beginning to end. I was surprised to find that in some mosques in cities whose people had emigrated, no one responded to the call of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) except one other person besides me. We prayed as three in a mosque in the city of al-Ludd, and another mosque in the city of Beersheba. I went there with the intention of praying because I was in Beersheba and looking around, I saw no less than seven thousand Muslims in Beersheba on a market day. I went to pray, and I assumed that I would at least find a mu'adhdhin and an imam, as I had found in al-Ludd, which does not have this large number. I was surprised to find the mosque empty of everyone, and the Jews had turned it into a museum containing some Bedouin tools used in their lives. I took a lesson from this, and I think, and perhaps the truth is in this, that every town from which its people emigrated turned into a Jewish town. My view is that the Muslims who remained in Palestine suffer from the injustice of the Jews and the arbitrariness of the Jews, which is well-known and does not need explanation. This applies to the country, whether in Jaffa, Haifa, Nazareth, or Acre. I have seen this with my own eyes. And in the villages that follow these cities, these are the people who preserved the Islam of Palestine. I do not say its Arabness, for we see that this is Islamic land since its conquest by the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh : Your saying "we see" is not precise.
The questioner : ... I did not cut you off, I only inquired about the knot. So wait for me and let your heart be broad for me.
The Shaykh : So this is in exchange for that, hehe.
The questioner : Hehe. So I am the one who wants you to take into consideration, because you are a Shaykh who is followed.
The Shaykh : Pardon me.
The questioner : A Shaykh who is followed, excuse me, or what, excuse me, this is the truth. You are a Shaykh who is followed, as I said, and many of our brothers follow you, and perhaps some of them fear to question you. So I am a representative for those who are afraid, because, if Allah wills, I do not fear you, and I, if Allah wills, fear Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and revere Him.
The Shaykh : That is what we want.
The questioner : If Allah wills.
The Shaykh : And it is not a boycott.
The questioner : So the matter, the matter is truly that I am among those who want to know the truth, and may Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) guide us to it. And I am among those who want to clear their conscience, because, believe me, I heard someone describe you as Jewish, and I heard someone say to me: "Are you surprised by this fatwa from him?" I said: "Glory be to Allah, how could I not be surprised? I have known him for twenty years. You may not remember, but we met in the Holy Makkah at the door of one of the mosques during the Hajj of the year 1973, and you reminded me of a matter regarding 'Umrah after Hajj, and that it is the 'Umrah of the menstruating woman and the woman with post-natal bleeding, if you..."
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : ...I remember that completely. And I am among those who studied from your books forty years ago.
The Shaykh : What Allah willed.
The questioner : Yes, by the grace of Allah. The matter is that knowledge is a bond of kinship among its people. So when I was surprised, one of them said to me: "Are you surprised by that from him?" I said: "Yes, I am surprised." He said: "He is a Mason."
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : Without an oath or vow. And this was said in an office near your office, with only meters between them. So I said: "A Mason?" He said to me: "Yes." I said: "Glory be to Allah the Great." Three people besides me were present for this conversation, and the time was not sufficient for verification, although the intention to verify was present.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : You are equipped.
The questioner : So the matter, the matter now is what I want to put before you for you to think about carefully, and I ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to help you with yourself as He helps me with myself.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : By not judging us by statements we have previously made, which makes it difficult for us to retract them. O honorable...The Shaykh .
The Shaykh : You have done well.
The questioner : ...our people in Palestine are fighting the Jew with stones, knives, pistols, and cannons. These are not those who accepted humiliation and engaged in raising the Jews' pigs. And when I say pigs, I mean it literally. The Jews in their religion forbid the pig, but in their material belief for profit, they raise pigs.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : This is the reality, O honorable...The Shaykh : ...some people, under the name of Muslim, under the name of Muslim, and Islam is innocent of them, because Islam does not accept this. Believe me, I saw in the Shafa 'Amr area, where 'Amr ibn al-'As (may Allah be pleased with him) was healed, I passed by a place to get into a car, and the smell was the worst smell imaginable.
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : And I have never smelled a worse smell in my life.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : But I was forced to pass by its side. I asked the one with me, I said: "What is this smell?" I mean, God forbid, one smells smells in the draining of septic tanks and such, but a smell like this has not passed me. He said to me: "Do you not know what this wall overlooks?" I said: "No." He said: "It overlooks a pig farm. May Allah protect you."
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : And there was a man coming out of it, a man coming out of it, his appearance indicated that he was an Arab. We said to him—peace be upon him— "Peace be upon you, and upon you be peace. What do you do, my brother? Because the smell is on him too."
The Shaykh : Also.
The questioner : So he said: "I work in this farm."
The Shaykh : This has a relationship to the previous research.
The questioner : Hehe. O my dear brother, these are the ones who fight the Jews, whether in Umm al-Fahm, which they named Umm al-Nur after Allah honored it with guidance, and these are the ones whom the Jews previously captured in the Jallad operation, and they were young men from the occupied land of the Triangle in 1948, and they carried out an operation in which they killed a number of Jews. And these are the ones whose news we hear in the Gaza Strip, where Rabin said one day: "I want to wake up from my sleep and see that Gaza has been plowed by the sea and drowned." So imagine that these people, in their residence...
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