# Buddhism and Islam: Suffering, the Hijrah, and Welcoming Strangers

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069419407944593720
- Source account: [@JDunlap1974](https://x.com/JDunlap1974)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:27
- Published: 2026-06-24
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers) I think of the freedom from suffering that Buddhism teaches us is only possible if we remove the three poisons of desire, hatred, and ignorance from our daily lives.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers?t=11) We need not accept suffering as unchangeable.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers?t=14) We need not treat hatred as the natural state.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers?t=18) We have the power to set ourselves free.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers?t=22) And I consider my own faith, Islam, a religion built upon a narrative of migration.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers?t=28) The story of the Hijrah reminds us that Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers?t=39) Surah Al-Nahl, 1642, tells us, as for those who immigrated in the cause of Allah after being persecuted, we will surely bless them with a good home in this world.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers?t=49) Or as the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said, Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers?t=57) So glad tidings to the strangers.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers?t=61) If faith offers us the moral compass to stand alongside the stranger, government can provide the resources.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers?t=76) Let us create a new expectation of City Hall, where power is wielded to love, to embrace, and to protect.

[1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IAHE4VcNe2yd/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-the-hijrah-and-welcoming-strangers?t=84) We will stand with the stranger today.