Migration (HIJRAH

Migration (Hijrah) is meant a specific structure of history, traditions, customs, and ways of life. It is a system of ideas and actions that casts its shadow over all aspects of life. Just as there is an invisible layer of air surrounding the globe of the earth in which we are all immersed, in the same way, every person is born immersed in the environment of their time. Within it, they grow and develop; the ideas and traditions of the environment become embedded in every vein of their being, and often it becomes difficult for them even to think against them. When the truth becomes clear to a person, the first step he must take is to abandon the customs and beliefs he had accepted merely by imitation. He must examine himself and remove all the wrong influences he has absorbed from his environment. Within every person there is a self that seeks only pleasure. For this self, the criterion of liking or disliking something is not whether it is right or wrong, good or bad. Rather, its only standard is whether it appeals to him and brings him benefit.