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Originally Posted by MossadConspiracy
Ultimately, migrations are almost always motivated by financial and quality-of-life issues. It can be couched in all kinds of rationalizations, but thats just the way it is for nearly everybody. The "hijra" people are almost always purely talk, just like the "jihad" people. When the money and the comfort is there, hijra talk will be accompanied by hijra action
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Don't know if I agree with that. Most of the people I know who did hijra certainly didn't do it for financial reasons nor for comfort. In fact, they subjected themselves to extreme hardships just to live in what they perceived an Islamic environment. I have a friend who had a rather comfortable job living in the US and he pretty much sold everything he had to move to Yemen just to be close to his Shaykh. I have another friend who was an attorney who was making a lot of money and he quit his job and moved to Saudiyyah for similar reasons. I have another friend who quit college and moved to South Africa to study in a maddrasseh. So I don't think its fair to exclude the possibility that some people perform migrations solely for spiritual reasons.
On an unrelated note, I wanted to point out that its not only Salafis that do hijrah to Saudiyyah. I know plenty of "Sufis" that have moved there as well.