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Originally Posted by jinnzaman
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.
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Salam
I dont doubt that, but like you said, its only some people. A small number. The net migration of muslims is out of yemen and into America, not vice versa. And most Americans (muslim or not) who migrate to Saudi do so with a job awaiting them. And the overall number of Americans migrating to Saudi Arabia is very small in the overall picture of world migration or muslim migration. Because America is a rich country. I'm just talking about the broad trend. Migration is driven by economic factors. Other stuff does come into play, usually stuff like wars and political upheaval and stuff like that... but religion too