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Is it permissible to leave a country in which an epidemic has spread, knowing the Hadith that prohibits exiting a land of plague, and with pressure from work to return, or must one wait until the epidemic is gone?

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Ebola is a viral disease that infects humans with hemorrhagic fever and is transmitted from infected animals or from a patient's blood and bodily fluids. As for traveling from a country where an epidemic such as Ebola is spreading, the prophetic hadiths prohibit entering a land afflicted with plague and prohibit exiting it in flight from it. Scholars have agreed on the permissibility of exiting a country with an epidemic if it is for a purpose other than fleeing, such as studying or working. However, as for exiting with the intention of fleeing the epidemic or with this intention, scholars have differed on it, and some have permitted it. In summary, traveling to return to work is permissible by the consensus of scholars, because it is not for the purpose of fleeing the epidemic.

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