# Buddhism and Islam: Suffering, Migration and Welcoming Strangers

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118435955917169032
- Source account: [@HQWhiteRabbit](https://x.com/HQWhiteRabbit)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:27
- Published: 2026-11-06
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-and-welcoming-strangers

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-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/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-and-welcoming-strangers?t=11) We need not accept suffering as unchangeable.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-and-welcoming-strangers?t=14) We need not treat hatred as the natural state.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-and-welcoming-strangers?t=18) We have the power to set ourselves free.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-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/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-and-welcoming-strangers?t=28) The story of the Hijrah reminds us that Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-and-welcoming-strangers?t=39) Surah An-Nahl sixteen forty-two 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/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-and-welcoming-strangers?t=49) Or as the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, "Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-and-welcoming-strangers?t=57) So glad tidings to the strangers."

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-and-welcoming-strangers?t=61) If faith...

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-and-welcoming-strangers?t=69) If faith offers us the moral compass to stand alongside the stranger, government can provide the resources.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-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/qybF3TvsrYJJ/en/buddhism-and-islam-suffering-migration-and-welcoming-strangers?t=84) We will stand with the stranger today.