If
you ever meet a Muslim in the West that tells you that Hijrah is not an
obligation or that our real obligation is Da’wah in the West, then let
him study the sayings of these Shuyookh on living in the land of the
Mushrikeen and the land which is at war with your Religion and people.
We will start off with a few introductory quotes and then give quotes
that detail the subject. Note that we are not doing Taqleed (blind
following) here since the Ayaat and Ahadith on Hijrah are already
explicit in regards to this matter and we only quote these Shuyookh here
because some of them clearly explain these Ayaat and Ahadith. The
majority of these quotes are self-explanatory; We might add a few
comments here and there to relate to our times. It is important to keep
in mind when reading these quotes that Muslims cannot practice their
Deen openly in the West as they ought to. Why? Since we know that our
Deen is not limited to the five pillars and that it encompasses every
aspect of our lives such as the establishment of
the Shari’ah throughout the land and the abolishment of the law of the
status quo, and speaking the Haqq in an uncensored manner and so on,
Hijrah then becomes an absolute necessity so that these things - which
are necessary practices of our Deen - can be implemented. Notice that we
said, “and speaking the Haqq” since the West no longer allows freedom of
speech for those that support this Noble Millah that they are at war
against. Many of the brothers in the UK, for example, have tested the
patience of the Government through their verbal support of our Muslimeen
and their insults at the Kuffar; many of them have been
arrested. In any case, even if they gave us the complete freedom of
speech that we desire, Hijrah is still an obligation since they are
against the establishment of the Shari’ah in their own lands (and even
ours!) since it is like having two Presidents in a single Country; not
only this, but they have publicly declared war against those who desire
the establishment of the Khilafah and because of their wars against our
nation.
Some of the Ahadith to keep in mind while reading these quotes are:
The Prophet (saws) said: “I have nothing to do with any Muslim who settles among the mushrikeen.” [Sunan Abi Dawood (2274) and is a Sahih hadith, al-Irwaa’, 5/30]
And,
The Prophet (saws) said, “I am not responsible for any Muslim who stays among polytheists.” They asked: ‘Why, Apostle of Allah?’ He said: ‘Their fires should not be visible to one another’, and he (saws) said, “Whoever joins the polytheists and lives with them then he is like them” and he (saws) said: “Migration will not end until repentance ends, and repentance will not end until the sun rises in the West.” [Al-Musnad, Vol.4/99, Abu Dawud, Kitab al-Jihad, Vol.3/7, Hadith
2479, and ad-Darami, Kitab as-Siyyar, Vol.2/239. Albani classifies it as
Sahih. See: Sahih al-Ja’mi’ as-Sagheer, Vol.6/186, Hadith 7346]
