Hour. May blessings and peace be upon
the Imām of the mujāhidīn and the beloved
of the Ansār and Muhājirīn as well as his
family, companions, and good followers until
the Day of Recompense. As for what follows:
Because hijrāh for Allah’s cause is a great
matter, Allah revealed about it, {And the
first forerunners among the Muhājirīn and
the Ansār and those who followed them with
good conduct – Allah is pleased with them
and they are pleased with Him, and He has
prepared for them gardens beneath which
rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever.
That is the great success} [At-Tawbah: 100].
Similarly, if not for the greatness of hijrah,
the Prophet (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam)
would not have given it as an example in the
hadīth “actions are according to intentions,”
as he said, “So whoever’s hijrah is to Allah
and His Messenger, then his hijrah is to Allah
and His Messenger.” Hijrah from Makkah to
al-Madīnah also represented a great event
and important turning point in the prophetic
mission, as it contained many great lessons.
Rather, it was the greatest event in the history
of Islam, and for this reason it was used as
the basis for the Islamic calendar.
Hijrah for Allah’s cause has many purposes,
amongst them being to escape tribulations,
fearing that one may fall into them and that
his religion may be affected by them. Also,
getting used to seeing kufr and shirk without
changing it could lead to death of the heart, to
the point that the person does not recognize
Islam and its people. Also, from amongst the
purposes of hijrah is to join the sides of the
Muslims, support them, strengthen their
forces, and wage jihād against the enemies
of Allah and their enemies.
Hijrah, as it was defined by Ibn Qudāmah is “to
leave dārul-kufr for dārul-Islām” [Al-Mughnī]. Sa’d
Ibn ‘Atīq (rahimahullāh) said, “It is migrating from
the places of shirk and sin to the land of Islam
and obedience” [Ad-Durar as-Saniyyah]. So dārul-
Islām is the place ruled by Muslims, where the
Islamic laws are executed, where authority is for
the Muslims, even if the majority of its population
are kuffār from ahlul-dhimmah. As for dārul-kufr,
then it is the place ruled by kuffār, where the laws
of kufr are executed, where authority is for the
kuffār, even if the majority of the population are
Muslims.
As for the ruling on hijrah from dārul-kufr to
dārul-Islām, then it is obligatory. Allah (ta’ālā)
said, {Indeed, those whom the angels take [in
death] while wronging themselves – [the angels]
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will say, “In what [condition] were you?” They
will say, “We were oppressed in the land.” The
angels will say, “Was not the earth of Allah
spacious [enough] for you to emigrate therein?”
For those, their refuge is Hell – and evil it is as a
destination} [An-Nisā’: 97].
Ibn Kathīr (rahimahullāh) said, “The āyah
indicates the general obligation of hijrah. So
everyone who lives amongst the mushrikīn
while being able to perform hijrah and not being
able to establish his religion, then he is wronging
himself and committing sin. This is in accordance
with ijmā’. Abū Dāwūd reported through his
isnād on the authority of Samurah Ibn Jundub
(radiyallāhu ‘anhumā) that Rasūlullāh (sallallāhu
‘alayhi wa sallam) said, ‘Whoever gathers and
lives with the mushrik, then he is like him.’”
Also, if there were no evidences for the obligation
of hijrah except the following ahādīth of the
Prophet (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam), “Hijrah
will not cease as long as there is repentance,
and repentance will not cease until the sun
rises from the West” [Reported by Abū Dāwūd],
“Hijrah will not cease as long as there is jihād”
[Reported by Imām Ahmad], “I have nothing to
do with any Muslim who resides amongst the
mushrikīn” [Reported by Abū Dāwūd and at-
Tirmidhī], and, “Hijrah will not cease as long as
the enemy is fought” [Reported by Imām Ahmad
and an-Nasā’ī], it would suffice us to refute the
doubts of the doubters and the rumors of the
fearmongers.
This ruling is an obligation upon women just
as it is upon men, for Allah (ta’ālā), when
excluding those incapable of performing hijrah,
He excluded the incapable women just as He
excluded the incapable men. Allah (ta’ālā)
said, {Except for the oppressed among men,
women and children who cannot devise a plan
nor are they directed to a way – for those it
is expected that Allah will pardon them, and
Allah is ever Pardoning and Forgiving} [An-
Nisā’: 98-99]. The Prophet (sallallāhu ‘alayhi
wa sallam) has also said, “Women are the twin
halves of men” [Reported by Abū Dāwūd, at-
Tirmidhī, and Ibn Mājah].
And today, after the Muslims established a
state that rules by the Qur’ān and the Sunnah
of the Prophet (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam),
which expanded to wide territories larger than
the areas of some of the states of Sykes and
Picot, and whose blessed soldiers restored
the promised khilāfah by the edge of the
sword not through pacifism, the rate of hijrah
magnified and now every day there are not
only muhājirīn to the land of Islam but also
muhājirāt who were sick of living amongst
kufr and its people. As soon as the sun of their
awaited state rose, they rushed to it alone
and in groups from the eastern and western
extents of the Earth. Their colors and tongues
are different, but their hearts are united upon
“there is no god but Allah.” I remember the day
I performed hijrah, I was the only Arab woman
amongst the muhājirah sisters during that trip.
If speaking about the muhājirīn is amazing,
then speaking about their twin halves the
muhājirāt is even more amazing! How many
stories have I heard which I would not have
believed if not for hearing them directly from
the mouths of those sisters involved or seeing
these sisters with my own eyes; otherwise,
I would have thought them the product of
imagination or something impossible!
The opponents often repeat that those who
perform hijrah to the Islamic State belong to
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a marginalized class in their former lands, living
in difficult conditions between unemployment,
poverty, family problems, and psychological
disorders. But I saw something contrary! I saw
sisters who divorced the Dunyā and came to
their Lord, striving. I saw sisters who abstained
from a life of luxury and abundant wealth. I saw
sisters who abandoned a beautiful home and
luxurious car, and ran for the cause of their Lord,
as if they were saying, {“My Lord, build for me
near You a house in Jannah”} [At-Tahrīm: 11]. I
consider them as such, and Allah is their judge!
They are as fragile as glass bottles but their souls
are those of men with ambitions almost hugging
the heavens. Yes, these are the muwahhidah
muhājirah sisters who performed hijrah to the
lands of the Islamic State. They inherited this
ambition from the Mother of the Believers
Sawdah Bint Zam’ah (radiyallāhu ‘anhā), the
wife of their Prophet (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa
sallam). She was the one who performed
hijrah to Ethiopia and al-Madīnah, leaving
Makkah despite its virtue. And eleven women
from Quraysh as well as seven women from
other tribes performed hijrah from Makkah to
Ethiopia on the second hijrah there!
The stories of the hijrah of the muwahhidāt that
have been narrated to me are almost never free
of hardship and tribulations. All of them start
with the sister resolving to depart for her Lord’s
cause. The first obstacle the muhājirah faces is
the family. And what can make you know what
the family is! In most of the cases, the families
are from the laymen Muslims, and with these
people, merely thinking about proposing the
subject of hijrah to them is like butting a rock
with your head. Yes, the sister is their honor
and it is their right to fear for her, but why do
they not fear for their honor when the sister
wants to travel to Paris or London to specialize
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in some worldly field of knowledge? Rather, you
see them hailing this, supporting it, and being
proud of it! But if the direction is towards the
Islamic State, then suddenly they all become
fuqahā’, saying this is permissible and that is not
permissible. By Allah, I know of a sister who left
in the accompaniment of her husband for hijrah
and was surprised to be stopped by the soldiers
of the tāghūt in the airport after her parents
had sent a notice to the police! This is a story of
a woman with a mahram, so what of a woman
without a mahram?
Here I want to say with the loudest voice to the
sick-hearted who have slandered the honor of
the chaste sisters, a woman’s hijrah from dārulkufr
is obligatory whether or not she has a
mahram, if she is able to find a relatively safe
way and fears Allah regarding herself. She should
not wait for anyone but should escape with her
religion and reach the land where Islam and its
people are honored. Whoever doubts this, then
let him review the books of fiqh and opinions of
the imāms so that he may inform us concerning
who this noble āyah was revealed:
{O you who have believed, when the believing
women come to you as muhājirāt, then test
them [meaning, test their faith]. Allah is most
knowing as to their faith. And if you know them
to be believers, then do not return them to the
kuffār} [Al-Mumtahinah: 10].
Also, these shouters do not agree with us on a
principle matter and that is the establishment
of an Islamic state fulfilling the conditions and
characteristics for its legitimacy. So how can
they debate us on a secondary issue – the ruling
of a woman’s hijrah without a mahram from
dārul-kufr to dārul-Islām? We can only say Allah
is sufficient for us and the best disposer of affairs
against every person who insinuates slander of
a muhājirah even if with a single letter. And all
adversaries will be gathered in front of Allah.
The muhājirah sister thereby passes