Suhaib Webb – A Question About Hijrah
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The speaker discusses the issue of hij authorization, which is a personal decision made by oneself. They explain that Islam is a decision that can be made for oneself based on individual experiences and personal decisions. The speaker also discusses the importance of worship and the need for individuals to stay in their current lands.
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It's a great
excellent question. So he's asking about hijra, the
h word, right, or the hat word.
And
is it, like, obligatory to, like, leave
the west
and go to
the lands where Muslims reside?
We know the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallamahu
said
Right? There's no Hijra after Fat. What it
means here, there is no
Hijra
after Fatimaqa.
False.
And that's why most
scholars
accept in extreme situations
that you find detailed in the books of
Filk where Muslims like what happened in Andalus,
what happened in Rwanda,
right, what happened in Bosnia
a few decades ago,
what's happening now in China, East Turkmenistan, I
wanna call it.
Except in those situations where you have
very rarely
usually is dealing with something specific. Very rarely
we have a that is like policy.
Because why? Most people can make these decisions
for themselves. If I see Muslims being killed,
Muslims being slaughtered, I don't need to call
a sheikh and say, should I leave?
Hey. It's common
sense. I need to go.
So very rarely in Muslim history, will you
find examples where where
scholars were giving fatwa for the whole community
to leave a given place and migrate to
a Muslim place unless it was the extreme
situations that we talked about earlier.
So what does that mean for you? That
means that the issue of hijrah is a
personal decision for yourself.
And that's why I believe
if
I'm correct,
he locates
migrating
as an example where
the average everyday Muslim makes their own ish
jihad. Just like if we're now we have
phones, we have apps. But
imagine, you know, even just a few years
ago, I remember sometimes you wouldn't know where
the is. You have to do your best
to figure out where's the. You're making now.
So the issue of migrating
to or or creating your own community. Right?
Some people I saw on Granada, they have
some really nice pocket communities. They're, like, so
amazing.
Those are personal decisions that I don't have
to enforce on others. A lot of brothers
and sisters from America went to Turkey, like,
in the last 10, 15 years, I've created,
like, really vibrant, beautiful communities
under Sheikh Mortar
and Medina, and I think Institute or Foundation.
Like, done a lot of awesome work. Right?
But they don't have to tell everyone, like,
you have to come here. That's a decision
they made for themselves. So for you, your
family, your wife, your children,
whoever you're responsible for, you wanna have shura,
and you wanna weigh the harms and benefits.
The last
is that in the in the Sheikh,
and this is not telling you what to
do. Okay, brother?
And the sheikh Imad had, Imam ibn Hajar
al Haythami, and it was called al Fatwa
al Kubra.
Incredible work.
He was sent a letter by Muslims who
lived in Southern Europe
at his time,
and they asked him, do we have to
migrate?
And he noted the hadith of Fudayk,
related by Imam Ahmed and the Muslim who
came to the prophet, peace be upon him.
And he asked the prophet,
alaihis salam, do I have to migrate from
Yemen
to Medina? This hadith is a good hadith.
And the prophet said,
establish a prayer, pay zakat, do good and
stay with your people. So these three conditions
are what have been sort of laid out
by jurist.
Number 1, I can worship.
Freedom of worship.
Worship not in the sense of establishing a
khilafa, but of course, it's not gonna happen
here. You know, Al Maqdisi says, I believe
in Al Mokuni, the Muslims who live in
the land of non Muslims, this is not
an obligation. Because the prophet said whatever I
ordered you to do, do it according to
your what? Your ability. What's within our ability
to do, but at least the fara it
as far as Ibadah.
Right? Number
2, he said,
call to the good and forbid the evil
so you can make dua.
Then he said,
and is a order.
And we have an
here we go again.
That a command of the prophet means what?
That something is what?
Obligatory.
So based on that, the
like you say Muftah Abi in the Hanafi
Madhub
is that Muslims and Al Haythimi writes this
in his legal,
defense of his position
that according to the Imam al Sha'afiyi and
the majority of the
that for Muslims who can establish worship, make,
protect their as you said,
protect their children, it's hard,
and call to the good and forbid the
evil. It is
for them to stay in the lands of
non Muslims, not to migrate.