Migration (HIJRAH
English book, p. 24
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
If dedicating himself to the service of religion makes his own and his children’s future appear dark, he moves forward without worrying about it. In short, whenever a person finds himself in a situation where on the one side, God is calling him, and on the other side, some other demand is pulling him, leaving those other demands and moving toward God is what is called Hijrah to God. This migration has many stages and countless forms. However, to understand its reality, we can divide it into two major headings. One is abandoning unlawful and forbidden things, and the other is abandoning things that are not, in themselves, necessarily avoidable. Yet because of adopting the religion, such stages arise that a believer is required to give these up as well. The first kind of migration includes the entire list of thoughts and actions that God the Exalted has declared forbidden and worthy of abandonment. Every person is born into a particular environment. By environment

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