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Al-Nisa’ 4: 98–100

“In what circumstances were you?” They replied: “We were too weak and helpless in the land.” The angels said: “Was not the earth of Allah wide enough for you to emigrate in it?” For such persons their refuge is Hell – an evil desti- nation indeed; (98) except the men, women, and children who were indeed too feeble to be able to seek the means of escape and did not know where to go – (99) maybe Allah shall pardon these, for Allah is All-Pardoning, Most Forgiving. (100) He who emigrates in the Way of Allah will find in the earth enough room for refuge and plentiful resources. And he who goes forth from his house as a migrant in the way of Allah and His Messenger, and whom death overtakes, his reward becomes incumbent on Allah. Surely Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate.71

71 It should be understood clearly that it is only permissible for a person who believes in the True Faith enjoined by God to live under the dominance of an un- Islamic system on one of the following conditions. First, that the believer strives to put an end to the hegemony of the un-Islamic system and to have it replaced by the Islamic system of life, as the Prophets and their early followers did. Second, that he stays in a land where an un-Islamic system prevails because of his inability to depart from that land, but he is utterly unhappy at living under such a system.

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