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Originally Posted by MossadConspiracy
I'd say the bolded statement is only partially true. Muslims who leave the USA and go to the Islamic world probably have multiple reasons for doing it. Its such a major life-altering decision that it has to be multifactorial. I'm sure you're right that religion motivates many of them to varying degrees. But so does money. Thats why so many people migrate to the Emirates and Kuwait and Qatar and Saudi and even Malaysia rather than Sudan or Bangladesh or Egypt or Yemen or Pakistan. They want to have comfortable lives. Maybe comfort in an islamic milieu is their ideal. Allahu alam
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I wouldn't portray Kuwait, the Emirates or Qatar as having "Islamic" societies. I think the qualification for an Islamic society is one that implements the Shari'ah and recognizes the authority of Islamic scholarship. I wouldn't classify that as "hijrah" which has a strong spiritual component. Saudiyyah, Sudan, Egypt, Yemen, or Pakistan, on the other hand, implement more aspects of the Shari'ah and have strong scholarly traditions. Those things are lacking in Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar. Most of the people I know that live in Dubai tell me that there are very few scholars who live there. So if a person were to migrate there, I would call that a migration, but not a hijrah. Most of the people I know who migrated were trying to hook up with either particular Sufis or 'Ulema such as those in Egypt, Yemen, Saudiyyah, and Pakistan.
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And as you brought up, there are those who sell all their possessions and go off to yemen, like that buddy of yours (and John Walker Lindh). I'm sure religious motivations weigh in much more than cash money for them
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If the act of moving is to be called "hijra" then the spiritual component has to be the dominant motivation and it has to be to a location that properly qualifies as an Islamic society.