Abu Taymiyyah – Q&A Defending The Rulers Unconditionally & Is Hijrah Waajib aadh
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Making hijra in today's day and age.
Hijra is of 2 types.
The first type of Hijra is the Hijra
of sins,
right? The hijrah
of sins.
You now migrating away from your sins,
is that clear?
The second type of hijrah that he is
referring to is and by the way, he
has a kitab called Tarikul Hijaratain.
Right? This was a letter that he sent
to his brother.
And our Sheikh
Salih Sindhi and also Sheikh Abdul Zakbar, they
both taught it
to us in the Prophet's Messenger.
Ara Kulihal,
the hijrah that he's talking about is migrating
from the lands of the Kuffar to the
lands of the Muslims.
Is this something that is mandatory in today's
day and age? One thing that we can
all agree to is that it is
something that
is highly recommended.
I personally don't want to bring up Taimiyyah
in this environment,
Allah I
don't. Whether
it is mandatory or not, that's a big
statement.
How many millions of Muslims do we have
in Europe?
Does anyone have an idea?
You have an idea?
How many millions of Muslim? I don't personally
necessarily know
the the stats of that.
We know just in the UK how many
millions there are,
right?
In Europe,
is
multiplied.
If I now say that it is Wajib,
I'm giving a fatwa
that concerns
all of these Muslims.
Is that for me to say? I'll
take out something else.
When I went to Aliaman in the Maj,
right?
A lot of Muslims they're extremely passionate
about making hijra to Aliaman.
In the marriage, it was a village,
Muslims are migrating from all around the world.
Some with the intention of seeking knowledge,
some with the intention I'm never going back
to the lands of the Kufar, never.
And when you make the intention of hijra,
what that entails is that you can't go
back, and if you do go back you
can only stay there for 3 days that's
what hijra is.
Are you guys with me? That's what hijra
is. So So there was a time when
I was there, a lot of people making
hijrah even some of the fatawa
that I was hearing was hijrah wa Ajibal,
it is mandatory.
You must leave the lands of
the Kufar and come to the lands of
the Muslims. Even if you look at the
explanation of
Look what he says about Hijra,
there were some strong
statements about Hijra,
even the Sheikh there was given a fitwa.
Some time went by, and then all of
a sudden I heard a Sheikh saying, this
is back then before the Arab Revolution.
Before the Arab Revolution.
You guys with me? Before we
the whole lands of the Muslims now went
into turmoil.
Once upon a time, Yemen,
right?
Was a beautiful place to live.
Wherever you went whether it's Hadar Amawat, whether
it is up north, there was peace and
security.
And sometimes brothers and sisters,
we really take peace and security very lightly.
The fact that you can wake up
right in the morning
and you don't have that fear that your
home is going to be broken into
or that you're going to be shocked the
moment you walk outside.
I know maybe in London,
That's why I would have moved to London
but anywhere outside of London, it's not like
that. And even being shot,
it's not for everyone like not everyone is
part of that crowd. You guys agree with
that? Most of us were able to,
right? Leave our homes, come to the lecture
not even thinking about being shot.
Did anybody wake up today thinking they're gonna
get shot today? Let's be honest,
most of us, right?
In Yemen there was security,
there was peace,
right?
And I was there before and after the
tawrat, the revolution.
No one can tell me that there is
khair in these revolutions that took place.
You can say whatever you want about Abdulsalah,
the ruler at a time. I'm not even
going to defend him. People sometimes think that
we
have to defend
the ruler.
This is not Manhaji Salif.
The methodology of the salif is not to
defend
the ruler
upon his filth and evil and his corruption.
Allah tells you
don't defend them in their oppression, and them
wronging themselves.
It's one thing saying
don't revolt,
and it's another
defending them upon their mistakes. Let's not conflate
the 2.
Are you guys with me?
If a particular ruler now
is opening up a Buddhist temple
right? And then calling it the Abraham whatever,
who do you call it?
Al Baytul Ibrahim whatever,
right? If he has good things with him
that he does in the country, should I
not defend him?
Because he's doing this stuff? Blah, at
all. Or in any other country might be,
we do not conflate the 2. It's one
thing saying don't revolt, and it's another defending
his mistakes brothers
and sisters. Let's not conflate the 2, and
this is not Mena Jeh Salafi.
They want to criticize us, say that we
are what? Bootlickers or whatever.
He says brothers and sisters, right? And I
really advise, we memorize this.
He says,
a fool.
Says, You will barely find
a people who revolted
against their ruler,
wanting to remove the evil that he was
upon, except that he led to
that which was far worse.
Now you
can be what? Judge jury here.
That which happened in the Arab world brothers
and sisters,
was there really any good in them revolting?
I'm mentioning all of this for a reason,
which will come in extremely handy.
I was there before and after the revolutions.
Wallahi, after I came back I was in
shock with the way the whole place turned
out to be.
You ask any Yemeni now, do you prefer
it? How it was before or how it
is now?
They will say to you how it was
before,
there's no peace and security.
It's turmoil.
Everything has become so expensive.
Taib.
Going back to why I was mentioning Ali,
the shaykh,
the fataw started changing.
Sheikh started saying,
come to
the Maj or Yemen for the intention of
seeking knowledge.
And then insha Allahu Ta'ala, if things work
out for you then make the intention
of Hijrah, that you're never going to go
back.
That same Sheikh.
After
the Maj was destroyed,
right? After the Maj was destroyed,
all the students were what?
They all are what?
Shattered
around the country, around the world, they all
had to go back.
The Sheikh himself had to leave Yemen.
He was exiled from his own country and
that's why he was then living in Mecca.
Some of our brothers,
right, some of our brothers, I believe he
will study asim Saradhurman,
right?
Salimhan,
they all
went to visit him and they asked him
whether
one should make hijra, you know what he
said?
Which basically means doing hijra in today's day
and age,
right?
How would you translate in English?
Yani,
I don't see it like I was before.
I can't actually say that it's mandatory.
Are you guys with me?
Can you see how the fatawa changed over
time?
Question I want to ask you guys, right?
If someone else says, it is wired to
make hijrah.
What are the options that we have?
I took my family to Egypt
because this is what everybody sees as the
ideal place to go make hijri to, right?
Egypt is like the easiest place to go.
Wallahi brothers and sisters,
it made me hate that place that I
now don't even want to go through Egypt
by transit.
With how they dealt with me at airport
and the hospital,
my wife is about to give birth, right?
She's about to give birth, I went to
ask for an extension of my visa, they
stamped on there you have what 7 days
to get out.
That I have 7 days to get out
of the country.
And if they catch you there
without
proper paperwork, you know what I'm gonna do
to you?
They'll do a job on you brothers.
They'll do a job.
And I don't wanna get all too graphic,
they'll do some crazy stuff to you inside
of the prison cell.
Now which you can't even imagine.
Can even walk all it, sexual abuse.
The plan was to leave my family there
all the way up until I graduate,
we had no option except
to get out.
I was being advised by Egyptian Muhammad, you've
just had an operation.
If these guys catch you outside without paperwork,
they will what? Do a job on you.
They don't care whether you had an operation
yesterday or not.
I was on the fringes brothers.
I had 30 stitches across my stomach
and I'm on the threat now.
Egyptians telling me to leave.
If this is not the situation,
right?
And they're treating people with biz like that
because they won't treat you nicely if you
have a bed, imagine that.
You have a bed, they're not gonna treat
you nicely. And by the way, I'm not
trying to put you guys off,
going to Egypt to seek knowledge.
I'm just stating facts here.
Just the other day, I had a podcast
with Sheikh Abdul Wahed, and I mentioned in
there, if you want Quran Arabic,
don't go to Yemen, don't even go to
Saudi. Go to what? Go to Egypt. That's
the best place for it. You go to
these other places but the best place for
it I believe is Egypt. I memorize Quran
in Yemen and I'm telling you that. I'm
not biased.
They're treating people of
of religion like that then
Tabe, you go to some of these other
countries, you think it's just easy for you
to walk in Saudi Arabia and say
that? There are other Muslim countries, but it's
not as straightforward as we may think.
Having said all of
that, I'm still insha'Allah,
the plan is to move my family out.
We're gonna try and solve something now, insha'Allah.
But for me to say that it's wajib,
I think that is very very big. That's
a fatwa that you are giving,
right? To all of these millions of Muslims
across Europe.
And I genuinely believe if Umar ibn Khattab
radhiallahu ta'ala was
alive,
right? He would have what?
Gathered the participants of Badr and he would
have taken the input.
You guys agree with that? Something as big
as this. Because if I say mandatory now
is wajib, that means all of these Muslims
have to leave.
And if they don't leave they are being
sinful.
We're not talking about the people have an
excuse, the people who don't have an excuse.
We are saying that they are sinful.
And there might be other determining factors.
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
There was another important point that I wanted
to make.
Type a revert, hey,
where does the revert go?
What does the river make hatred to?
These are all issues that need to be
taken into consideration. It's not just as simple
as one skimming
a fatwa,
right?
Of course it is the ideal dream,
right? I don't think anyone here wants to
bring up their kids
around these rainbows.
So
anyone here wants to bring up their kids
around these rainbows?
When they begin to question their sexual orientation.
Something you gotta think about brothers and sisters,
they're giving dawah to our kids in the
schools.
They really are.
So this is a huge fitwa.
You just go off with insha Allahu Ta'ala,
working towards,
maybe I'm gonna try and find an alternative,
maybe you can move to Somalia,
Allahu'ala will happen in Somalia. Anyways the point
I wanted to make earlier was these revolutions
what did they do to all these Muslim
countries?
They destroyed it.
If I wanna go to Yemen, I don't
personally feel comfortable going there.
Right?
But how vocal we are about the rafida
who are in control of all these airports,
they might just do a quick Google search
and my face pops up.
Sahih.
And then the interview comes up
of what happened in the Majj.
That's the reality brothers and sisters.
I don't know what's going to happen to
Somalia tomorrow,
I don't know what's going to happen to
Kenya, Morocco,
these are some alternatives
but there's not a straightforward
sorting out your paperwork.
I had if I go to some countries
today, they might just think that they're going
there to blow something up,
you're going to be scrutinized
because I have a beard, my Asaf Shirdi.