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Rasool Allah (SAWW) was Muhajir ... This term was given by himself ... But he don't like it to making an identity ... While I got aware about it ... I myself have given up to be called Muhajir ... Term is correct but not favourite ......
My brother is in Canada .... And he is an immigrant (Muhajir) over there .......
You are not Muhajir anymore,
“… Thus he whose migration was for Allah and His Messanger, [then] his migration was for Allah and His Messenger; and he whose migration was to achieve some wordly benefit or to take a woman in marriage, his migration was for that which he migrated.”
This part of the hadith demonstrates the important principle that two acts may look the same on the outside, but as a result of the intention they are done with, the rewards are very different.
The Arabic word hijrah means ‘to leave or avoid something and to move from one thing to something else’. It’s most apparent shareeah meaning is the leaving of the lands of the disbelievers to the land of Islam in order to implement or practice Islam.
According to some scholars though, the concept of hijrah in this hadith can also be more widely applied to include spiritual hijrah from what Allah has forbidden, as illustrated in the hadith:
“The Muhaajir [one who makes hijrah] is the one who avoids what Allah has prohibited.” (Bukhari)
The past century has witnessed a kind of hijrah that has been very harmful to Muslims, hijrah for the sake of the dunya, or worldly gain. Many Muslims have moved from Muslim lands to the lands of the West for economic betterment, and many times this has been at the expense of their religion or the religion of their children. This is the kind of migration that Allah is warning us against here. What are the gains of this world worth is we lose the Hereafter?
The believer should set their aspirations on the eternal rewards of the Hereafter. We should use this world as a means of gaining Allah’s pleasure. Any of our actions can do this if we perform them with the intention of pleasing Allah, and in accordance with the Sunnah of His Messanger (s).