EMIGRATION IS A CONSTRUCTIVE ISLAMIC INSTRUCTION

(VERSE NO. 100)

      Following the argument about those, who, due to their short comings, failed to perform the commandment of emigration, and consequently were undergone many difficulties and misfortunes, here again with decisiveness the importance of emigration is notified to them in two phases:

      The verse firstly points at the material bounties and blessings that the emigrant may obtain in this present life:

      ``Those who emigrate in the way of Allah will find many refuges and safe and secure places to live in, and they also may find extensive provisions and facilities for living.''

      In the second stage, the verse gives an account of the moral and spiritual consequences of their emigration:

      ``Whoever leaves his house to emigrate in the way of Allah and His Messenger, and death overtakes him, God is responsible for him; and his reward is fallen upon Allah.''

      In any way or any case, the emigration is a victory and a high gain for the emigrant.

      Emigration is a common natural law observed by a great many of the creatures. There are so many emigrant birds in the nature that when they find their life in danger somehow, they move on, and emigrate to another place where they can be safe and secure.

      It is also worthy of note that emigration (HIJRAT) from Mecca to Medina has become the origin of the current dating system for giving dates of the Islamic era.

      From Islamic point of view; emigration is not limited to the movement from a local position to a distant place.

      It rather includes all the useful changes from one state and situation to another. First of all the emigration must occur in our innerside, by which we must move from bad to good, and from wrong to right. We must keep away from evil company where we cannot put him down; but we then have to organize a position from which we may assault evil and its darkness. We must emigrate from sinning and go to the rank and position of doing good through our migrations.