Was your entering Damascus, ash-Shām, with your father due to persecution?

هل كان دخولكم دمشق الشام مع الوالد نتيجة اضطهاد؟

Was your entering Damascus, ash-Shām, with your father due to persecution?

الحويني : طيب ؛ يعني قصة دخولكم دمشق الشام مع الوالد هل كانت نتيجة اضطهاد - مثلًا - ولا إيش ؟

Al-Ḥuwaynī: All right. The story of your entering Damascus, ash-Shām, with your father, was it due to persecution, for example, or what?

الشيخ : لم يكن ثمة أيُّ اضطهاد ، لكن كان هناك في الجو نُذُر من سيطرة لأنه ما كان أن يستتبَّ الأمر حتى بدأ يفرض على الشعب - وعليكم السلام - القوانين ، وبدأ النساء في استجابهنَّ ، ويفرض على الشرطة والجيش القبضة ، كان نذيرًا للشَّرِّ في وجهة نظره ... - رحمه الله - ، ولذلك قرَّر الهجرة بأهله إلى دمشق إلى الشام بصورة عامة وإلى دمشق بصورة خاصة ، لما كان يقرأ من أحاديث كثيرة وردت في الشام عامة وفي دمشق خاصة على ما هو معلوم أو صار فيما بعد بأن هذه الأحاديث منها الضعيف منها الصحيح منها الحسن منها الموضوع ، لكن الفكرة العامة صحيحة ، وكانت متحكمة في نفسه - رحمه الله - ، ولذلك قرَّر الهجرة حينما رأى تلك النُّذر ، فهذا هو سبب الهجرة ، ولم يكن هناك ضغط مباشر .


The Shaykh: There was no persecution at all. But there were signs in the atmosphere, because as soon as things became stable for him [Aḥmad Zog], he began imposing laws on the people, on women regarding their dress(1), and he began imposing his grip upon the police and the army.

So it was an omen of evil, in his [Albānī's father] view... may Allāh have mercy on him. For that reason, he decided to take my family to Damascus, to ash-Shām in general, and to Damascus in particular, because of the many aḥādīth he used to read that had been reported regarding ash-Shām in general and Damascus in particular.

As is known, or as later became clear, some of these aḥādīth are weak, some are authentic, some are ḥasan (sound), and some made up. But the general idea is sound, and it had taken firm hold of him, may Allāh have mercy on him.

So he decided to migrate when he saw those warning signs. That was the reason for the migration. There was no direct pressure.

نعم .

Yes.

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(1): The original passage is unclear, so the translation is based on audio context and historical facts.

Note: The Arabic passage had transcription mistakes, which I corrected.

https://www.al-albany.com/audios/content/142449/

Reflection: Look at the barakah in his father's decision to migrate and save his deen and his family's deen, Allāh gifted him with al-Albānī. That's immense!

Everyone who benefited from Al-Albānī was able to do so because Allāh decreed this man deciding to migrate to Damascus.

{ فَمَن یَعۡمَلۡ مِثۡقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَیۡرࣰا یَرَهُۥ }
[سُورَةُ الزَّلۡزَلَةِ: ٧]


"So whosoever does good equal to the weight of an atom (or a small ant) shall see it".
Tr. Muhsin Khan and Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
 

The story of Ibn Taymiyyah is similar!

Ibn Taymiyyah's family left Ḥarrān when he was a child because of the Mongol/Tatar threat, and they settled in Damascus.

سبحان الله.

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