Suhaib Webb – A Question About Hijrah

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.