one of them: "Indeed, faith retreats to Madīnah as a snake retreats to its hole." It was recorded by al-Bukhārī and Muslim, among others. and the other: "A group from my nation will continue to be apparent upon the truth until the command of Allāh comes to them while they are apparent." This is an authentic, widely-reported ḥadīth narrated by a group of Companions, and its documentation has been previously mentioned from several of them under numbers (270, 1108, 1955, 1956), and in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abū Dāwūd" (1245). In some narrations, it is mentioned that they are "the people of the West," meaning the Levant. This is explained in al-Bukhārī and others from Muʿādh, and in al-Tirmidhī and others, it is raised with the wording: "If the people of the Levant become corrupt, there is no good in you, and a group from my nation will continue..." the ḥadīth. These ḥadīths strongly indicate that the significance of a land lies in its inhabitants, not its walls. Salmān al-Fārisī (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) clearly expressed this truth when Abū al-Dardāʾ wrote to him: Come to the sacred land. Salmān wrote back to him: The sacred land does not sanctify anyone; rather, a person's deeds sanctify him. (Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik 2/235). Therefore, it is deadly ignorance and extreme foolishness—if not to say a lack of religion—for a foolish preacher to choose to reside under Jewish occupation and obligate the oppressed Algerians to migrate to (Tel Aviv), instead of his Muslim country (Amman), for example, or even Mecca and Madīnah, ignoring what the Jews have spread in Palestine in general, and (Tel Aviv), (Haifa), and (Jaffa) in particular, of debauchery, immorality, and licentiousness, which has spread among many Muslims and Muslim women due to proximity and contagion, which is not hidden from those who lived among them and whom Allāh saved from them, or who occasionally visit their families there. It is not hidden from anyone who has been given some knowledge what contradiction lies in that choice