My experience travelling from England to Algeria by car

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,

I went once to Algeria by car and my husband has done it several times.

Booked by PO Ferries Dover to Calais. That’s the easy bit.

Then driving through France to Marseilles. That would take about 10 hours direct but as you’ve been already travelling you will need to stop to sleep. Unless you both drive. Everyone I know who drives from UK stops at a hotel.
Except us we wanted to save but, as I don’t drive, my husband was exhausted. You need to stop to eat/pray/toilet plus 2 stops to sleep 2-3 hours at a time so it depends if you can cope with that.

Hijrah: what for?

When we think about our hijrah, we start to list a series of things that we ‘wish’, almost ‘want’ before even moving to dar al-Islam.

The list could be long: first of all I want to live in THIS city, I cannot live anywhere else in Algeria, otherwise I prefer to stay in Europe (Allahul Must’an). I want a house, I cannot live in a flat…. my children have to attend a school that is 100% on the manhaj… my husband has to work during the day, not long hours please otherwise we won’t be able to see him … and the list could be even longer. We ask Allah to guide us and purify our niya. 

Escaping to the West – Shaikh Rabee’

Shaykh Rabee’ on Hijrah to Britain
Question about Escaping to the West answered by Shaykh Rabee’ Al-Madkhalee may Allaah preserve him.

On more than one occasion, Shaykh Rabee’ has made the points translated below. In fact, he says these things every time he is asked about migrating to the West and living there.

Question

May Allaah be benevolent to you; here is a question from the Salafi youth in Britain. They are asking about the ruling on residing in the lands of the unbelievers in order to escape the injustice of rulers in some Muslim countries. [They also ask about] the ruling on taking a British nationality. 

Advice to a [Muslim] Resident in Non-Muslim Lands

It should not be overlooked that traveling to non-Muslim countries, residing there and living amongst them is from the greatest damages and dangerous risks on the religion of the Muslim. Furthermore, his residency there entails damages and calamities which are reflected on his behavior, morality and customs. He is not safe in three of his inviolable limits: body, honor and wealth. Cohabitation –As it is well known– entails conformity, and induces to the degeneracy and the acquisition of the unbelievers’ character as well as to their imitation in their habits, celebrations, to speak their language and to resemble them in their behavior and characters, in addition to what they manifest by way of their disbelief and atheism. …

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