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**AnneseeKels** · 06-29-2011, 10:33 AM

Assalaam alikum

What are the pros and cons of living in a western country (like America) versus living in a Muslim country (like Qatar or UAE)?

wswrwb -

cons:
-difficult to find halal work/work environment
-difficult to raise family
-difficult to lower gaze
-may not be halal to live in non-Muslim country (varying opinions)
-what will we tell Allah when he asks us why we lived among the kuffar when we could have gone somewhere else?
-what we tell Allah when our kids end up astray?

pros:
-political stability
-the laws of the kuffar actually protect your rights better than the laws in some Muslim majority countries
-for second-generation, you might have a better chance in the non-Muslim countries because you know how to function there since you grew up in that environment, whereas relocating to Muslim country, you will be a foreigner there and have to start from the bottom, and when you are struggling like that it will be hard to practice deen or help your family...

06-29-2011, 10:33 AM	#2
AnneseeKels Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 571 Senior Member	Assalaam alikum What are the pros and cons of living in a western country (like America) versus living in a Muslim country (like Qatar or UAE)? wswrwb - cons: -difficult to find halal work/work environment -difficult to raise family -difficult to lower gaze -may not be halal to live in non-Muslim country (varying opinions) -what will we tell Allah when he asks us why we lived among the kuffar when we could have gone somewhere else? -what we tell Allah when our kids end up astray? pros: -political stability -the laws of the kuffar actually protect your rights better than the laws in some Muslim majority countries -for second-generation, you might have a better chance in the non-Muslim countries because you know how to function there since you grew up in that environment, whereas relocating to Muslim country, you will be a foreigner there and have to start from the bottom, and when you are struggling like that it will be hard to practice deen or help your family...
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