Is It Haram Or Halal To Live In A Non-muslim Country?
“Ubaid bin Umar Al-Laithi and I visited Aisha and asked her about the Hijra (i.e. migration), and she said, “Today there is no (Hijrah) emigration. A believer used to run away with his religion to Allah and His Messenger lest he should be put to trial because of his religion. Today Allah has made Islam triumphant, and today a believer can worship his Lord wherever he likes. But the deeds that are still rewardable (in place of emigration) are Jihad and good intentions.” [577] Al-Imam An-Nawawi said in the explanation of Sahih Muslim, volume 9, pages 127-128, “The Scholars have said making Hijrah from the land of war to the land of Islam remains until the Day of Resurrection, and there are two positions concerning the explanation of this Hadith: One is that there is no Hijrah after the conquest from Makkah because it became a land of Islam and Hijrah is only from the land of war. And this contains a miracle for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) in that it will remain a land of Islam from which making Hijrah is not imaginable. The second is that it means there is no Hijrah after the conquest, its excellence being like the excellence before the conquest as Allah said: “Not equal among you are those who spent before the conquest and fought (and those who did so after it.) Those are greater in degree than those who spent afterwards and fought. But to all Allah has promised the best (reward). And Allah knows what you do.” (Surah Al Hadeed: 10) Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar said in Fathul-Baari, volume 4, page 47, “The meaning is that the obligation of making Hijrah from Makkah ceased with its conquest because it became a land of Islam…” End quote. The Prophet (ﷺ) clarified in many Ahadith that Hijrah from the land of disbelievers to the land of Islam will not cease till the Day of Judgement: It was narrated that ‘Abdullah bin Waqdan As-Sa’di said: “We came in a delegation to the messenger of Allah, each of us with a question to ask him. I was the last of them to come in to the Messenger of Allah, and I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, I have left people behind me, and they are saying that emigration (Hijrah) has ceased.’ He said: ‘Emigration will not cease so long as the disbelievers are being fought.” [579] Narrated Mu’awiya bin Abi Sufyan: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “Migration will not end until repentance ends, and repentance will not end until the sun rises from the west”. [580] Shaikh Saalih Al-Fawzan said: “…what is meant by there is no migrating after the conquest” is (no migrating) from Makkah, since through the conquest, it became an abode of Islam. The people thought that migrating remained from Makkah after the conquest so they wished to attain the reward of migrating. As for migrating from the land of disbelief, then it remains until the Hour is established. End quote. [581] Shaikh Muhammad bin ‘Abdul Wahhab said: “Hijrah, from the land of shirk to the land of Islam, is an obligation upon this nation (Ummah) and it continues until the Hour is established”. [582] Footnotes: [577] Sahih Al-Bukhari, 3900. Also see similar Ahadith in Sahih Muslim, 1353 a, 1864 and Sahih Al-Bukhari, 2783. [578] This passage was taken from Page 34 of Irshad Al-Akhyaar’ by Shaikh Abu ‘Amr Abdul Kareem bin Ahmad. [579] Sunan An-Nasai, 4172. Shaikh Al-Albani graded this narration to be Sahih. Shaikh Shuaib Al-Arnauut said that the chain of this narration is Sahih according to the conditions of Imam Al-Bukhari, see Takhreej Mushkil Al-Athaar, 2632. [580] Sunan Abu Dawud, 2479. Shaikh Shuaib Al-Arnauut said that the chain of this narration is Hassan Li Ghairihi in Musnad Ahmad, 16906. Shaikh Al-Albani declared it Sahih. [581] Sharh-ul-Usool-ith-Thalaathah. Explanation of the Three Fundamental Principles of Imam Muhammad ibn ‘Abdil-Wahhab by Shaykh Saalih ibn Fawzan Al-Fawzan. Translated by Daawood Burbank. (Abdurrahman.org) [582] Usool Ath-Thalaathah. https://preciousgemsfromthequranandsunnah.wordpress.com/2021/07/13/was-hijrah-abrogated-after-the-conquest-of-makkah/ but isnt the hadith only abrogating hijrah from mecca and not from everywhere because mecca became a non-muslim land so how did hijrah end and where is the proof