Migration (HIJRAH

Migration (Hijrah) This is the second kind of migration. That is, setting aside the demands of one’s own self in order to fulfill the demands of religion. When there is a clash between the needs of religion and personal needs, when the work of religion asks from you all your time and all your abilities, when religion requires that you leave behind your comfort, your ease, and even your close family members and move forward for its sake, then you should sacrifice everything for it, and there should be nothing whose attachment becomes an obstacle in your path toward religion. This is the reality that is stated in the following verse. After mentioning the high ranks of the believer, the migrant, and the one who strives in the path of God, it is said: “Say, “If your fathers and your sons and your brothers and your spouses and your tribe, and the worldly goods which you have acquired, and the commerce which you fear will decline, and the homes you love are dearer to you than