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Migration and Repentance
Migration is divided into three categories:
- Migration from Mecca to Medina. This ended when Mecca was conquered
- Migration from everything that Allah has commanded us to migrate from or boycott, such as specific actions, people, times, and places.
- Migration from the land of Kufr to the land of Islam, its ruling is obligatory.
Actions: everything that Allah has forbidden, and at the head of this is shirk.
People: non-believers, the hypocrites, and others.
Times: boycotting the times that the non-believers celebrate.
Places: boycotting the places where the non-believers celebrate.
Repentance will come to end by one of the two means:
- The sun rising from the west.
- Death. Allah says, «But repentance is not accepted from those who continue to do evil deeds up until, when death comes to one of them, he says, 'Surely, I have repented now', or of those who die while they are disbelievers» (Qur'an 4: 18).
“There is no migration after the conquest” refers to the migration from Mecca to Medina, where the Prophet –may Allah praise and send him peace- is also eluding to the fact that Mecca will never again return to a land of disbelief.
So, when he settled in Medina he was commanded with the rest of the Islamic Legislation such as zakaat (1), sawm (fasting), hajj, jihaad, adhaan, commanding the good and forbidding the evil, along with other legislations.
He continued like this for 10 years until his eventual death –may Allah praise and send him peace- (2).
But his religion remains, and this is his religion; there is no good except he directed his followers to it, and no evil except he warned them against it. From the good he directed to: Tawheed, and everything that Allah loves and is pleased with. From the evil he warned us from; Shirk, and everything Allah dislikes and hates (3).
- Shaykh Ibn Uthaimeen (1347-1421H) mentions: ‘Zakaat was first made obligatory in Mecca, but the amount one must reach before it becomes obligatory to pay and how much is it obligatory to pay was not determined except in Madina.
- The Prophet–may Allah praise and send him peace- died on the 10th year after migration, and was buried in the house of ‘Aisha – may Allah be pleased with her-
- There is no good except he directed the Muslims to it and no evil except he warned them against it. It is essential that we bear witness that the Prophet–may Allah praise and send him peace- has fulfilled his trust, conveyed his message, advised this nation, and has truly strove for the sake of Allah, until he left us on a clear path whose night is as clear as its day; no one deviates from it but he is destroyed.
