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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Wilayat (Guardianship) Speech 6: Wilayat and Migration Migration is one of the issues related to broad meanings of Wilayat as presented before.

In our previous speeches we had submitted that Wilayat means establishment of a strong and durable bond in the ranks of believers, elimination of every type of linkage between groups of believers and non-believers and in the later stages a very strong connection of all members in the ranks of believers with that central and dynamic power - the Wali, Ruler and Imam - who is responsible for setting up the Islamic society.

We also discussed who can be the Wali and Ruler of the Islamic society and received the answer from the Glorious Qur'an that says: ’’اِنَّمَا وَلِيُّکُمُ الله وَ رَسُوْلُہ وَ الَّذِيْنَ ٰامَنُو الَّذِيْنَ يُقِيْمُوْنَ الصَّلٰوۃَ وَ يوْتُوْنَ الزَّکٰوۃَ وَ ہُمْ رَاکِعُوْنَ۔‘‘ Your only Walis are God, His Prophet and those believers who establish prayer and give elms while kneeling in prayer. [^1] With the reference of this verse we have alluded to the anecdote of the Commander of the Faithful.

If we comprehend Wilayat in such a broad spectrum and not relegate it to supplementary or secondary level, migration may be one of the issues facing us after accepting Wilayat.

If we submit to the Wilayat of God and accept the fact that all physical, intellectual and spiritual forces and capabilities of a person ought to be utilized according to the wishes of God's Wali; in short a human being should be a servant of God with all the elements in his existence and not the servant of evil; then we will also have to accept that if at some point our being, our self and all our faculties are not subservient to God's Wilayat and are obedient to the Wilayat of evil and Satan, our attachment to God behooves on us to liberate ourselves from the yoke of evil and move under the blessed Wilayat of God.

Moving from the Wilayat of an oppressive ruler to the Wilayat of a just Imam is migration. You saw that migration is one of the issues related to Wilayat. This is the fourth point that we are going to talk about in this series of speeches on the subject of Wilayat. Individual Migration Why should a person avoid going under the Wilayat of evil and Satan?

The answer to this question is linked to the answer to another question and we ask you to analyze the second question according to the knowledge you have, based on the Islamic religious teachings.

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