If you’re not successful in your own country, it’s not easy to succeed anywhere else in the world. Success isn’t tied to geography or where you live. Success depends on your mindset and your way of life. It depends on your self-confidence and self-respect. It depends on your energy, passion, effort, persistence, and focus. It depends on your relationship with God and your faith. It depends on your ethics towards your mother, your father, your siblings, your neighbors, your colleagues, the cleaner, the taxi driver — all the people around you.

Migrating without a plan, vision, or goal means certain failure and inevitable loss. The chaotic “let’s just go and see what happens” attitude must stop. A plan means a goal, a methodology, tools, initial capital, partners, a route, alternatives, a timetable, and a certain level of guarantees.

Throwing yourself into the hands of mafia gangs and mercenaries — all thieves and scammers — thinking you’re worth a few thousand dollars, no more, no less, is pure stupidity and deep ignorance. Soon you find yourself stranded in the middle of the sea facing death, humiliation, or disgrace. You break your mother’s heart, your sisters become desperate, and your father dies slowly. That’s called suicide, and yet you want God’s blessing to succeed?

Yes, our country is tough, and life here is far from easy. Yes, God’s earth is vast, but don’t think you’ll land there on a red carpet with blonde angels all around and mountains of dollars just waiting for you to grab. That’s a joke and nonsense.

You’ll find Yemenis, Syrians, Iraqis, Libyans, Africans, Afghans, the respectable and the scoundrels — all around you. You’ll start from zero. You’ll work hard, day and night, risking everything to prove yourself.

And believe me, if you put that same honest effort into your own country, you will succeed — I swear by God. “Indeed, Allah does not allow to be lost the reward of those who do good.” Everyone who works hard deserves their share. God didn’t specify the place or say it must be through connections.

I’m not against travel at all, if it’s for a reasonable goal. But it must be planned safely and respectfully — respecting your life and dignity, ensuring your safety and honor. Not losing you and leaving us to mourn you.

May God help the youth in this country, protect them from all harm, and fulfill their dreams. May He fix our conditions and guide us to the path of goodness in this life and the hereafter.

I hope no one misunderstands me — I speak from frustration.

I say this, and I seek God’s forgiveness for myself and for you all.