 Alaykum to everyone watching us tonight another another Ramadan Kareem Ramadan Mubarak to everyone watching us tonight to the crew behind the camera to the guys in the control room I would like to thank everyone for making LNT hashtag LNT shall I say possible and from bringing Ahmad Ali live to you guys from the Holy City of Karbala but tonight we have a very special episode that's everyone watching us tonight you can relate to it everyone every single individual can relate to tonight's topic but without further ado I would like to introduce you tonight to watch trending so I was going to do that once again now tonight for all those who love the American muscle cars you got to listen to this now how does it or can you imagine yourself driving a brand-new 1987 Buick Grand National see you know American muscle cars are nice even when they're used but buying a 49 mile car in Iraq they say zero absolutely brand-new brand-new car even even the plastic wrapping is still in the car like no one has driven that car 49 miles it's brand-new when I say brand-new and it's from the factory it's not like a rebuilt model from the factory like that I mean it's crazy now it's on sale it's on bid for on on eBay up to now it's seventy thousand dollars bid right now if I had the money I would buy an escalate but if I had the extra money I would buy that but anyways so hopefully whoever gets the car is happy with it now what else is trending now so every Ramadan and every summer the local government of Karbala increases the electricity outages basically saying Ramadan can everyone living in Karbala you know because honestly there are a lot of things that are going on in Iraq what electricity is a must I mean citizens simply can't put up with it anymore so what did they do today well today the streets of Karbala were jammed as I was getting to the channel I ran into this check this out yeah so they're they're not having a party just let you know it's not a party they're actually protesting against the local not against local but you know to ask for the rights for a for the electricity simple simple simple request and and yeah so they're saying hey hey Jee will get about hey whatever they're saying bring the electricity back so it's it's it's crazy now yesterday we were talking about Pakistan how the heat was 44 degrees Celsius and today in Iraq it reached 45 degrees and people are fasting with no electricity so this goes out to whoever is watching if they're watching on the government it just goes out to you guys come on man the people need the fast property and subhan Allah no one died you know from the heat or from from the from fasting so we just need to you know and this that's it give the electricity back to the people anyways that's it for what's trending let's go check out what today's topic is all about so as we all know not every country is equal in terms of economic wealth economic power and technological development and advancement I mean everyone knows there are rich countries with rich technological advancements and there are poor countries with no ability or they don't even know to use a computer so you have that kind of scale now every year millions of people make difficult and risky decisions to leave their home countries for a new country for a new nation now motivations for leaving very some leave for work some leave for study opportunities some people leave to be united with their families and some people leave just to explore the world just to check out what's going on around the world now let's not forget the asylum seekers also so asylum seekers sorry the asylum seekers also have it hard they're getting it rough why because every day they're trying to find peace and happiness and tranquility you know leaving their house every day thinking that a bomb might go off or a terrorist attack that they might face it's difficult for them however the solution to all of this is immigration now immigration is a huge global issue in today's world if you look at the numbers from 19 from one 191 million up to the estimated to be in the world right now and that number doubled since the last 50 years now there are multiple benefits of immigrating to another country we'll get to talk about them later on in the show but at the same time you're leaving your country you're leaving your culture and most importantly in many cases you're leaving your families behind now later on in the show we'll get to find out whether or not and that's your question for tonight what do you think about immigration in three two much a lot very quick today what do you think of immigration this is your question for tonight what do you guys think of immigration I'm trying to find out what you guys think so how are you gonna let me know you guys can dial open what's that first dial the number shown right now plus nine six four seven seven four zero six seven eighteen thirty six or you can joke go so you can call send us a voice message text message a video all that good stuff you can also go live on Facebook we are live on Facebook at Imam Hussain 3 TV or at NT dot show your participation will be written down everyone that participates your names will be written down on a slit and we'll get the ball right now so we can show you guys where your names will be placed in three two one a a has an a lap the cameraman I thank you very much I'm not gonna ask him because yesterday he gave me a random reply but yeah so your names will be written down on this lip this sticky note right here and place in this fish ball right here so you can get a chance any participant call text message audio message comment on Facebook that's it your names will be written on this place in this fish ball for your chance to win a free Ziyara free trip to Karbala and to meet the crew of hashtag LNT and trust me everybody is wanting to do that anyway let's go take a very short very good back very short welcome back dear viewers once again we do remind everyone that we are live in the Holy City of Karbala and tonight we are talking about or asking the question what do you think about immigration so your chance to let us know because I'm trying to find out what you guys think about immigration because trust me when I say 99% of those watching us right now are immigrants everyone watching us right now unless you're in your home country but you know from people in the West watching us your immigrants so why not tell us why do you migrate migrate and do you think it's good or do you think it's bad what are the benefits of migrating and what are the disadvantages of migrating so that's your question for tonight now immigration as any new addition to a country has its positives and has its negatives on both the recipient country the country that people are trying to migrate to and of course on the original country as well because as we can see right now especially in countries like Syria Iraq and other countries when people emigrate or migrate from that country to another developed country a lot of doctors are migrating a lot of dentists a lot of engineers so the the best quality of individuals within a country tend to migrate also another another segment if you will of the country that migrate are those who you know have it hard that they're not getting what they actually need from that country now the recipient country is usually an industrialized country in Western Europe or North America where people seek and wish and a lot of people who are just wishing who are yearning if you will just to go and visit another European or a North American country or any country that's in the West and a lot of people when they do migrate they bring benefits as well such as the following now immigrants will often do jobs that people in host countries will not do and this is actually seen because a lot of a lot of the times when an immigrant reaches the country he's not well off he's trying to find any job that can get him money so basically he needs that pay he needs that dough to make him grow as an individual and grow in his career wise but we have a call from Hamid from Canada Salamu Alaikum welcome to hashtag and see and tonight's question what do you think of immigration I am originally from Qatar but I graded to Canada and I'm living here as an emigrating mm-hmm we can work working as a video editor nice media company nice I think that immigration is very good mm-hmm and I encourage people to the other country learn a lot mm-hmm okay in in terms of what oh okay so he's saying he encourages others to visit other that's why he thinks immigration is good to for people to go visit other countries and see what other countries have to offer thank you very much Hamid from Canada for joining us tonight your name will be written here thank you very much the spend is not writing all right on ours Hamid Canada so there you go Hamid from Canada going into the bowl right now all right thank you thank you very much for joining us tonight or is on a call all right all right now as Hamid was telling us that he thinks that migrating is beneficial and that's his opinion that's great for learning for letting us know that we were continuing off with the benefits of migrating and how various individuals can migrate to a country to actually benefit now another benefit of migrating is that workers often work long hours longer than those who actually are the citizens of that country which is sometimes controversial but you know it benefits the host country the third benefit is that immigrants contribute to the diversity of that host country the society of that country making it globally known at the same time appreciated and that's very important as well because when you think of the West or especially Canada America and the UK they're thought to be a melting pot of different nationalities different races different ethnic groups that's why a lot of Western countries are respected for hosting immigrants and for bringing immigrants to those countries as we can see in that picture right there people from all over the world gathered together you have Brazil Japan Mexico Denmark USA India Iran that's South Africa Germany everyone coming together Italy everyone coming together just to live a peaceful life but a another one another benefit is that it's the the economy of the country and how the immigrants also contribute to that it increases the talent pool if they have and of course if they're well educated you know it benefits a lot to that country if a doctor migrates that's that's a good thing if an engineer if a dentist if an astronaut or you know or a biochemist or you know anyone that benefit that migrates with education or he is well educated to that host country then the economic status of the country increases so but we'll take a very short break and we'll be back very short so do stay tuned all right so welcome back everyone so we do remind everyone for or to call and join us tonight in tonight's live show from the Holy City of Karbala the drop you of Hadat Abbas may peace and blessings be upon him but the camera is just waiting there to get me water yeah I'll take it Habibi thank you very much we are getting a few Facebook comments on Facebook right now so we'll get to read them but please tell us your opinion because I'm getting a few notifications of saying Salam Ya Hussain Salam Ya Abbas I respect that a lot but this show is not for that at 10 30 so a few hours ago was welcome to Karbala that's where you can tune in and and send those comments or comments on that but tonight we're trying to find out what your opinion is on tonight's topic what do you think about immigration so that's what we need to find out for tonight from you guys so you guys have to participate so you can your names can be placed in here for a yes so we have just received a text message Muhammad from India now Muhammad from India says I agree to immigration because it is the right is there well it is the right of human in case he she faces oppression to escape and live peacefully in another country region city etc thank you Muhammad from India for joining us tonight so Muhammad his name will also be placed in the draw Muhammad from India Muhammad from India your name is going into the ball right now now thank you Muhammad from India now as we mentioned before the break and before the water and before the text message we were mentioning some of the benefits but at the same time there are drawbacks to immigration now if you want to go through a few of them immigration is a social and political issue where racism can rise and tension can rise in those situations one another immigrant comes from a different country from a different race from a different nationality when they do emigrate to another country tension will rise especially if the person of the immigrant takes a position or takes a working position within a company within a place of work tension might rise in that case now there is another one there is a perception that immigrants and refugees appear to get more benefits from the local people themselves so in that case as well tension and hostilities also rise at the same time now the other drawback is concerns about the illegal immigration and this actually it generalizes over the majority of the immigrants that came into that country legally so in that case still tension might rise and when there's a generalization on that that everyone is emigrating illegally then you're just taking away the right of the people who actually migrated and who are abiding citizens law abiding citizens and who are actually contributing to the economy now another drawback and this is we saw this earlier on this year and still going on up to the day where immigrants are dying earlier on when I mentioned making actually difficult and risky decisions to migrate this is what I'm talking about we see people from Africa migrating to Europe in boats and not a lot of them reach their destination they die in water and this is very dangerous also because it reaches the headlines and making a huge voice out there and making a you know it's what very viral when the Africans died and on the boats but even even the Arabs when they also migrated to Finland from Finland they went to Sweden Denmark and the UK a lot of people also died in the water trying to reach their destination so that also is difficult and it makes the government hate migration but anyways let's go see what the public has to say about tonight's topic and we're back very short so do stay tuned what do you think of immigration well I live in London grown up as you know my family are immigrants as well so it's great earns the money the country money and yeah what do you think of immigration and here anyway I don't I mean is it I just feel that there shouldn't be immigration at all like there shouldn't be frontiers here like borders I don't think everybody should be free to go whatever they want what do you think of immigration they should be not loud in country but like could they take all our jobs what do you think of immigration immigration in what sense immigration economically it helps country strife at the same time in society it helps you to understand each other but I believe immigration is needed wherever because we live in one beautiful planet and everyone needs to mix and blend what do you think of immigration in terms of what immigration if people are coming in have the skills that the country needs yes but not just pouring in to take over the place with different aims people coming to live on benefits coming not contributing anything my idea of immigration at anyone coming here should be able to contribute to the system by your skills or by business establishment not just coming here because this free stuff to take I'm against mass immigration if the people coming in and not adding value to the system it's not fair on people that work we do think those who has joined us who have joined us from London UK and letting us know their opinion some are with and some are against but one point to mention also was a good point mentioned in there is the immigrants that do come in it should be regulated to some extent according to them because that just opens that just makes people you know even terrorists allowed to come into that country which we'll get to talk about later on but we Facebook comment from Farhad Azizi he says Salaam what do you think of a Muslim who is born and brought up in a non-Muslim country demonstrates the influence of the environment very clearly in this in his thoughts ideas behavior values and adequate unless his Lord helps him so he's asking us a question we'll get to answer that inshallah later on in show or another episode inshallah but if you can let us know what you think about tonight's question all right now we'll continue there's actually a very nice survey that was conducted by ITV earlier on several years ago but before that we just got a text message from so oh from sister Khadija oh my shala she she's been tuning in every day with hashtag anything much now she says salam and alaykum it helps with the country's economic economy growth from Tedzania thank you very much Khadija for joining us tonight and let us know what you think about tonight's question shout out to her and shout out to everyone who is joining us tonight now as I was saying there's a survey conducted by ITV in the UK several years ago and it's very interesting at the same time we'll get to talk about that very interesting observation now they say that 73% of the people thought that too many immigrants were allowed into the UK and just 3% believed that and not enough were allowed into the country wow okay they also say that 75% believe immigrants put a strain on public services that's that's interesting well okay another one is that 39% of people believe immigrants bring disease to the UK wow okay if they do then they should be checked out before they're brought into the UK but another point that was mentioned in the survey is that 25% felt like immigrants make Britain a thriving multicultural society which is it's a good point valid point but so we can see that through here most of the people that were surveyed from that recipient country don't support immigration because of some of the actions that were done in that country but at the same time you shouldn't blame the immigrants just just blame individuals but let's go and check out what sheikh Osama Al-Ataar our expert for tonight what he has to say about tonight's question Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem walhamdulillahi rabbil alameen wa sallallahu ala Muhammadin wa ala alihi al-taibin al-taahirin dear brothers and sisters as-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh when can one immigrate or migrate well there are many reasons Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala when he discusses the story of Prophet Ibrahim alayhi as-salam and what he faced of the problems among his community he then migrated Muhajirun ila Rabbi I am migrating to my Lord so when he found that there is no more room for him to worship Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala freely or to invite people to the call of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala freely he migrated and along with him migrated Prophet ala Nabiyina wa alihi wa alihi as-salam the same reasons drove our holy Prophet ﷺ to migrate from Mecca to Medina as the area of Mecca and the people of Quraish were no longer supportive of the Prophet ﷺ and inviting to his message so that's a very important reason for one to migrate where one cannot practice religious freedom also political freedom sometimes people migrate because of political harassment that's an issue that can also drive people out of their countries and be a reason for their migration Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Holy Quran and have been bothered or harassed Oudu for my path and so on so forth so that's another reason political reason third reason for migration is education the Prophet ﷺ says seek knowledge even if it were in China so one can migrate for the reason of knowledge these are among the reasons of migration but one important aspect that Ahlul Bayt alayhim as-salam indicate is when you migrate you must take a look and look after your religion and the religion of your children otherwise if one is afraid of losing his religion or his religion becomes in jeopardy because of this travel that travel may be considered haram and may be considered banned and the same thing about losing one's religious identity when traveling all children's religions identity if the children lose their religious identity and that is what is known as a ta'arab ba'ad al-hijra which is losing the religious identity after the migration where a person just loses his religion wa al-ayyadu billah God forbid or his children lose their religion and that is considered one of the major sins wa al-ayyadu billah which is a ta'arab ba'ad al-hijra we pray to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to bring peace to the whole world such that the whole world gets united as one country as they say a global village we pray to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to hasten the reappearance of our Imam adjala Allah ta'ala for jahul sharif such that we can witness the day when he fills this earth with justice the way it is being filled with tyranny and oppression especially we pray to Allah to answer our call on these holy days and holy nights of the month of Ramadan wa as-salamu alaykum thank you thank you very much sheikh for joining us tonight sheikh usama al-attar thank you very much once again now as you mentioned a lot of points the the benefits and the backdrops or the yeah of immigration we also have to mention the Islamic perspective the Islamic Islamic point of view now Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions in chapter 4 verse 97 he mentions that when the angels took the people's lives so when people died the angels asked them why were you while wronging themselves those people in what condition were you in now these people answered we were oppressed in the lands the angels said to them was not was not the earth of Allah spacious enough for you to immigrate to them so in there the angels of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala which are commanded by Allah to say what they say are asking the people if you're oppressed in your country why not migrate why not go find another country that is suitable for you of course as mentioned by sheikh usama al-attar another another narration by Prophet Muhammad SAW where he says seek knowledge even in China even if the knowledge is in China go seek it as we can see China is one of the thriving countries in the world now tonight we try to say that Islam does encourage migration immigration so if you do feel oppressed if you feel like there's a there's an opportunity for you in another country do migrate and you know find the proper solution but thank you very much for joining us tonight this is Ahmed Ali coming to your live in the ministry of karbala I guarantee the late night talk thanks to the crew waslamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh