See Part 1 HERE.
Next, let us turn to look at where this concept of hijra comes from. Following is an overview of the doctrinal and historical bases for the campaign called hijra (الهجرة in Arabic). The word means “migration,” and is based on the original journey in 622 CE of Islam’s founder Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina (then called Yathrib), in what became known as the Arabian Peninsula.
That migration took place following some ten years or more of efforts by Muhammad to convince his Meccan Quraysh tribe to accept his preaching and convert to Islam. His fellow tribesmen weren’t especially interested in leaving their polytheist ways, worshipping a pantheon of various idols, and that led to tensions between them and Muhammad. Thus the decision was made to relocate to Medina, a city along the Red Sea western edge of the peninsula to the north of Mecca.
That relocation became known in Islamic lore as the hijra. It was undertaken in an effort to spread Muhammad’s new religion among a more receptive population. Even more importantly, the move to Medina ushered in a new phase in the spread of Islam, from preaching (dawa) to kinetic warfare against all non-believers (jihad). Jihad warfare was launched with victory over the Meccan Quraysh in the 624 CE Battle of Badr (today commemorated annually as the Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan). By 630 CE, Muhammad’s Islamic army had conquered Mecca.
As Aynaz Anni Cyrus wrote in her May 8, 2025 Substack post, “Hijrah: One Way In, No Way Out – The West’s Last Warning,” the ultimate goal of Islam is a global caliphate under rule of Islamic law (sharia). The Islamic canon, including the Qur’an, the Sira (Muhammad’s biography), hadiths (collected accounts of the sayings and actions attributed to Muhammad), and Tafsirs (Qur’anic commentaries by Islamic scholars), makes clear that the Islamic directive to hijra is doctrinally obligatory for faithful Muslims.
With credit and thanks to Anni Cyrus, here are some of those citations and her quoted commentary on them.
- Qur’an 4:100
“And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find on the earth many [alternative] locations and abundance. And whoever leaves his home as an emigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him—his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah.”
Here, hijra is framed as virtuous, with spiritual and material rewards tied to migration for the sake of advancing Islam.
- Quran 9:33 explicitly commands:
“It is he who has sent his messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although those who associate others with Allah dislike it.”
- Sahih Muslim, Hadith 1864, commands Muslims clearly:
“Migration cannot cease until faith prevails everywhere.”
Here the purpose of hijra is explicit: global Islamic dominance is to be imposed through deliberate population movement.
- Musnad Ahmad, Hadith 22378, quotes Muhammad instructing believers:
“I charge you with five of what Allah has charged me with…to migrate (Hijrah).”
Migration is central, not incidental, to Islam’s expansionist doctrine. These teachings openly instruct believers to strategically populate and dominate non-Muslim lands until Islam prevails everywhere.
- Ibn Kathir (Tafsir, on 4:100)
“This Ayah encourages and motivates the believers to emigrate and to abandon their land and family for Allah.”
Classical scholars interpreted this as an obligation when Islam is not dominant.
- Sahih Muslim, Hadith 20, confirms Muhammad’s vision:
“I have been commanded to fight against people until they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish prayer and pay zakat…”
- Al-Nawawi’s Commentary on Sahih Muslim (Book 20, Hadith 4626)
“Hijrah remains obligatory until the Day of Judgment when Muslims are unable to practice their religion freely.”
Hijra isn’t just historical — it’s ongoing when Muslims feel restricted under non-Islamic rule.
Hijrah as a Tool for Islamic Expansion (Fiqh-based)
- Reliance of the Traveller (Umdat al-Salik), Book o9.8
“If non-Muslim territory is conquered, its people are subject to the rulings of Islam. If Muslims are in non-Muslim lands and unable to live according to Shari’a, they are obliged to emigrate to Muslim lands.”
The inverse logic applies: if Muslims can live and grow in dar al-harb (non-Muslim lands where sharia is not yet the law of the land), they are not only permitted, but encouraged to remain and spread Islam.
- Sayyid Qutb, Milestones
“Islam is not a heritage to be preserved. It is a movement to be advanced.”
The mission of hijra is tied to creating conditions for Islamic governance.
- Yusuf al-Qaradawi (Juridical scholar of the Muslim Brotherhood):
“Islam will return to Europe not by the sword, but through da’wah and population growth.”
Here, al-Qaradawi frames hijra as a soft conquest, leveraging birth rates, welfare systems, and legal tolerances. Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi echoed his words in this 2009 statement:
“We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe—without swords, without guns, without conquest—will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”
- Documented in Muslim Brotherhood’s 1991 Explanatory Memorandum (U.S. Trial Evidence):
“The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within…”
Migration is paired with institution-building and legal activism to alter Western systems.
Additional credit for important work on hijra migration to the U.S. goes to Ann Corcoran, whose 2015 monograph “Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America” was published by the Center for Security Policy. In this slim book, Ann recounts the words of the Muslim Brotherhood (as above) in its 1991 “Explanatory Memorandum,” where its author Mohamed Akram declares the mission of the Brotherhood in America is to wage civilizational jihad to “destroy the Western civilization from within.” The Muslim Brotherhood intends that civilization jihad from within to be accomplished incrementally by means of changed demographics, the creeping establishment of Islamic enclaves, and an infiltrated legal system. In short, civilization jihad proceeds initially by subversion from within, aided importantly “by their hands,” that is, by the willful blindness of our own government, civic and religious leadership, and everyday Americans who do not see and do not oppose the gradual takeover of a Judeo-Christian society by the forces of Islamic jihad.
“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance” is a warning attributed to Thomas Jefferson. Nowhere is that more true than with the obligation of Western Civilization to recognize the insidious strategy of hijra to infiltrate our societies by means of methodical demographic and ideological warfare. Left unrecognized and unchecked, hijra infiltration will erode our freedoms. Only eternal vigilance can ensure that does not happen here in the United States of America.
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Clare M. Lopez is the Founder/President of Lopez Liberty LLC.
Walter Sieruk says
This Texas city of which many Muslim migrants have infiltrated and likewise Sharia influenced it to such an extent that it might be fitting to view that city and an Islamic colony in the North American State of Texas.
Therefore, what might be needed is an undated and revised version of the Monroe Doctrine, which was originally designed to stop any further colonialism of the Americas by the European nations, as Spain, Portugal, and France.
That Monroe doctrine included the Latin countries In other words; it would halt European colonialism also in those lands.
Therefore, a new updated and revised version of that Doctrine would put an end , as in not tolerate,, any further “colonization” of North America and Latin America by any Islamic countries , if it be by massive Muslim immigration or “political intervention ” from or by Islamic nations as ,for example, Iran , Afghanistan , Pakistan.
Walter Sieruk says
The construction of that grand mosque in that city in the State Texas has a symbolic meaning Which to the many other mosques that have been built across the United States.
That meaning has been explained by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Dr. Daniel Shayesteh, in his book ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND for in page 99 it informs the reader that “The mosque is vital for establishing Muslims as sovereign over non-Muslims in a non-Islamic society or country. Building a mosque in a non-Islamic society or country symbolizes Islam’s claim over that society or country, even with a non-Muslim majority.”
Jupiter00 says
I have to look into buying the book reported here! Thanks for sharing
Big Dude says
I would not be surprised if this is the start of the jihad against America, starting the out-and-out killing of Jews everywhere. We will see massive anti-Jewish stuff. And in 10 years this will morph to killing outright of Americans as these people multiply. We are in for some bad times. The anti-Jewish sentiment will destroy America. It’s already destroyed the college scene, where these jerks are moving to killing every Jew in Israel. Just look at the people who are graduating like that asshat in MIT, who intercalated anti=Israel material in her pre-approved talk. Now imagine that multiplied everywhere, until the din for programs is deafening. Truly we are at the beginning of the end of America. Furthermore.. I wouldn’t hire an Ivy League graduate anymore. I don’t know when this person would emerge to kill me.
Winston 101 says
The U.S. is being invaded by the Government of Islam – in the guise of religious freedom.
Islam is a wolf in sheep clothing. It kinda looks like the other sheep in their various flocks, the Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, etc
But if you look closer you’ll see those religions do not come wrapped in a Government.
In Islamic Government there is NO separation of Mosque and State. Islam IS the State.
Do you really think that the “moderate” American muslims will rise up against their “radical” muslim brothers? Or, is it more likely they will look again at the Quran, and see their Jihadii leaders are correct?
somehistory says
If one studies ancient history, it’s possible to see that in times long ago, many nations (if not all) saw their king, emperor, pharaoh, etc. as a ‘god’ or as one enforcing the rules of the nations’ ‘god.’
Egypt had many ‘gods,’ and their pharaoh was considered to be a god. Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon , demanded that all of the people worship an image he had made.
Even as recently as WWII, Japan had their emperor who was presented as a god for the people.
The populations of earth need to become aware that a ‘government’ entity can require the people over whom it rules, to also worship it as it demands.
islime is different from other governments today….it has no set land, but is trying to take it all.
And it’s demanding to be worshiped.
Reziac says
A few days a go Texas announced that it is now investigating this proposed “EPIC” city, and meanwhile has put a halt to its development. I haven’t heard anything further about it.
Bret says
Muslims for decades slaughtered and killed and put into slavery those they defeated. Until finally others banned together and stopped and destroyed them militarily again. This will happen again.
OLD GUY says
It has to happen.
T.jefferson says
America will be conquered by Islam.
It’s ironic that the most heavily legally armed population in the planet, is too ignorant, apathetic and cowardly to actually stand up against such an invasion.
The gubbmint has done a good job at instilling fear for anyone who would dare excersize their right of free speech or peaceful protest.
Americans are now too afraid to stand up .
It will be too late if/when Americans finally realize that something needs to be done.
Chess says
Obama will keep it going. He is the quintessential hater of America.
Roger says
It was said, “is too ignorant”… and that is essentially the biggest deficit this country entertains. Fifty percent of the nation cannot read past 6th grade level (go ahead, check the math too, very sad) and grasping the complexities of this ‘spiritual and ideological’ war is beyond them completely. That was the idea in the first place, take over America by ruling its schools and future. All completed (read “The Naked Communist”) and now we are too passive and stupid to change. Pres Trump is trying but the foul, ‘me’ oriented, politicians on both sides are “just politicians” and never to be trusted. Perhaps we might see ‘Epic’ go away be edict but I believe it will be the other way. As John Wayne said at the border, “No, ain’t got no gold or silver… just lead.” May be the only way?