The Benefits of Hijrah

The benefits of hijrah: hijrah can cause an economic boom. An example of that is Granada — the Muslim Granada, the last Islamic state in Andalusia — when the Christian north, the Spaniards, started taking over, conquering Islamic land, the Muslims would leave, and they would settle in southern Spain, in Granada. So there was a population boom; it reached over two million. But these were men who came in with their skills, with their abilities as merchants, their abilities as farmers, so Granada flourished and it became the wealthiest state in all of Europe. What caused that? A major part was due to the hijrah of the Muslims from northern Spain to southern Spain. The same thing happened, for example, in Holland earlier, a few centuries before, when the Calvinists, the Protestants, moved from some parts of Europe to Holland. So hijrah brings the talents of people together, and a small village could turn into a huge city because of hijrah — all of the minds coming together. For example, there is now an immigration of Muslim minds going to the Western world, so the Muslim lands are deprived of their abilities while they are flooding toward the West, and the fruit of their knowledge is given in Western countries while their Muslim lands are deprived of that.