WHAT IS JIHAD?-
is it a pillar of Islam that allows Muslims to commit
Indiscriminate violence?
jihad
dʒɪˈhɑːd/
noun
noun: jihad;
plural noun: jihads; noun: jehad; plural noun: jehads
-
(among Muslims) a war or
struggle against unbelievers.
"he declared a jihad against the
infidels"
There is a
difference between GREATER AND LESSER JIHAD- GREATER- is the struggle
within yourself and LESSER -is the struggle against the outside world
– against unbelievers etc.
However,it is
regarded by a minority of shia muslims as a pillar of islam but is
nevertheless central to the Islamic religion and way of life.
The Messenger of Allah was asked about the best jihad. He said:
"The
best jihad is the one in which your horse is slain and your blood
is spilled" (also cited by
Ibn
Nuhaas and narrated by Ibn Habbaan).
[30]-
ie the BEST is the “LESSER” JIHAD- ( violent physical struggle
against the infidel)
What the Prophet
Mohammed was saying here is simple. When you are on your horse in war
and if you fight ...you must fight so hard that you cannot ride on
your horse anymore...you should be in the middle of it..the thick of
the fighting. The horses that were usually slain in battle were the
ones that were the first to engage the enemy and were in the middle
of the fighting.
He carries on to
say… “ and your own blood is spilled…!!!”- meaning that not
only have you gone right to the middle of the fight … you were on
the frontline… engaging the battle at its most fiercest so that you
either got wounded or even killed because of your passion…
He didn't want
soldiers that were hanging back ..waiting for others to take the most
risks… and finally… it is very clear… the jihadis were to
FIGHT… PHYSICALLY….to win the GREATEST REWARD!
According to "Orientalist" (historian of the Middle East)
Bernard Lewis,
"the overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists",
and specialists in the hadith "understood the obligation of
jihad
in a military sense."
[15]
Javed
Ahmad Ghamidi states that there is consensus among Islamic
scholars that the concept of jihad will always include armed struggle
against wrong doers.[16]
So the
scholars – the people who study the Quran say it INCLUDES a
“MILITARY” – a violent PHYSICAL struggle against perceived evil
doers! Ie Those in European or Western orientated or in fact any
other doer… who is regarded as evil.
A struggle that includes the use of force… violence..
The primary aim of jihad as warfare is not the conversion of
non-Muslims to Islam by force, but rather the expansion and defense
of the
Islamic
state.
[41][42]
In theory, jihad was to continue until "all mankind either
embraced Islam or submitted to the authority of the Muslim state."
There could be truces before this was achieved, but no permanent
peace.
[35]
One who died 'on the path of God' was a martyr, (
Shahid),
whose sins were remitted and who was secured "immediate entry to
paradise."
[43]
(However, some argue martyrdom is never automatic because it is
within God's exclusive province to judge who is worthy of that
designation.
[44])
With the
Islamic
revival, a new "Fundamentalist" movement arose, with
some different interpretations of Islam, often with an increased
emphasis on jihad. The
Wahhabi
movement which spread across the Arabian peninsula starting in the
18th century, emphasized jihad as armed struggle.
[63]
Wars against Western colonial forces were often declared jihad: the
Sanusi religious order proclaimed it against
Italians
in Libya in 1912, and the "
Mahdi"
in the Sudan declared
jihad
against the British and the Egyptians in 1881.
[43]
Jihad (
English
pronunciation: /dʒɪˈhɑːd/;
Arabic:
جهاد
jihād
[dʒiˈhæːd])
is an
Islamic
term referring to the religious duty of
Muslims
to maintain the religion. In
Arabic,
the word
jihād is a noun meaning "to strive, to apply
oneself, to struggle, to persevere".
[1]
A person engaged in jihad is called a
mujahid,
the plural of which is
mujahideen (
مجاهدين).
The word
jihad appears frequently in the
Quran,
[2]
often in the idiomatic expression "striving in the way of God
(al-jihad fi sabil Allah)",
to refer to the act of striving to serve the purposes of God on this
earth.
[1][3][4][5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad
WHAT JIHAD IS
-
The Arabic word "jihad"
is often translated as "holy war," but in a purely
linguistic sense, the word " jihad" means struggling or
striving.
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The arabic word for war is:
"al-harb".
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In a religious sense, as
described by the Quran and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (s),
"jihad" has many meanings. It can refer to internal as
well as external efforts to be a good Muslims or believer, as well
as working to inform people about the faith of Islam.
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If military jihad is required to
protect the faith against others, it can be performed using anything
from legal, diplomatic and economic to political means. If there is
no peaceful alternative, Islam also allows the use of force, but
there are strict rules of engagement. Innocents - such as women,
children, or invalids - must never be harmed, and any peaceful
overtures from the enemy must be accepted.
-
Military action is therefore
only one means of jihad, and is very rare. To highlight this point,
the Prophet Mohammed told his followers returning from a military
campaign: "This day we have returned from the minor jihad to
the major jihad," which he said meant returning from armed
battle to the peaceful battle for self-control and betterment.
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In case military action appears
necessary, not everyone can declare jihad. The religious military
campaign has to be declared by a proper authority, advised by
scholars, who say the religion and people are under threat and
violence is imperative to defend them. The concept of "just
war" is very important.
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The concept of jihad has been
hijacked by many political and religious groups over the ages in a
bid to justify various forms of violence. In most cases, Islamic
splinter groups invoked jihad to fight against the established
Islamic order. Scholars say this misuse of jihad contradicts Islam.
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Examples of sanctioned military jihad include the Muslims'
defensive battles against the Crusaders in medieval times, and
before that some responses by Muslims against Byzantine and Persian
attacks during the period of the early Islamic conquests.
http://islamicsupremecouncil.org/understanding-islam/legal-rulings/5-jihad-a-misunderstood-concept-from-islam.html?start=9
Comment:
This is a good definition but attempts to act as an
apologist for acts of jihad throughout the world in defense of
perceived acts of war by the West … It emphasises the context in
modern times and ignores the overall perception by muslims and non
muslims alike. In fact it promotes jihad as something good. It is
isnt. Islamic State rape, burn alive women and children.. torture ,
behead and use the most brutal methods of indiscriminate killing they
can imagine… why? Because they dont have the budget to conduct a
conventional war against the infidel...but instead wear him down by a
prolonged and protracted guerilla war. This we have seen in Europe
where migrants are forced onto boats heaidng to Europe… where even
jihadists use human compassion to infiltrate and hit targets in
Europe such as was seen in France. It is true that Muslims have
something against the West for their acts of terror in their own
lands… by bombing innocent civilians etc… but the issue is of
people who LIVE in Europe as European citizens with all the rights of
others… where their freedom of practising their religion is
enshrined in the human rights act.
The question still remains… what does jihad or holy war mean
to Muslims living in Europe?
Does it mean that it is something that is a holy duty according
to the teachings of Islam ...and its prophet… or not?In the absence
of other evidence… I conclude that it does.
Who inspired Osama Bin Laden to wage war on the West with his
own brand of Jihad?- A BRAND THAT HAS BEEN UPDATED BY ISIS- or IS-
Islamic State...
Sayyid Qutb, the radical Egyptian ideologue whose
theological/political dogma energizes Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda,
wrote extensively about implementing a totalitarian rule of Islam,
nation after nation. Qutb’s rationale was straightforward: neither
the contemporary Muslim world nor Western philosophical, political,
or religious traditions could heal what he perceived as history’s
fatal flaw: the deep divide between secular and sacred created by
societies and nations.
The vanguard was to be propelled by another of Qutb’s radical
doctrines, his view of jihad, which gives
today’s new jihadi groups their unrelenting, violent centrifugal
force. Conventional wisdom today posits two, perhaps three, types of
jihad. One would be a military jihad.
http://www.equip.org/article/submit-or-die-the-geostrategic-jihad-of-osama-bin-laden-and-al-qaeda-part-two/
Why are Muslims in denial ? - about the true meaning of modern
day jihad…
Why is this the
case? Why can’t so many liberals understand the pure evil of
Islamic jihad? I can think of three reasons: First, they’re often
in the grip of a strange kind of moral relativism. I say “strange”
because it’s not true moral relativism. Actions of domestic
political opponents are condemned in the strongest possible terms,
and the history of Christianity is treated as if it is nothing less
than one long story of war, rape, and conquest. That’s not
relativism; that’s judgmental in the extreme. The relativism
emerges when evaluating other cultures, where even dark deeds are
excused by “culture” or “colonialism” and regions in the
grips of the worst kinds of pathologies are hailed for their rich and
glorious traditions.
Second,
relativism drives the quest for justifications. Since there is no way
that Western culture can be superior to Middle Eastern cultures, when
the Middle East boils, there has to be a reason located outside the
jihadists’ own beliefs and pathologies. The roots of jihad are
never in Islam or in the pure nihilism of the jihadist, but rather in
the oppression or injustice he’s suffered. The formula thus becomes
painfully simple: End the oppression, and you’ll end jihad. Yes,
they’re angry — says the liberal — but they’re angry for many
very good reasons. #
Third, the quest
for justification drives deception and willful ignorance.
Read
more at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/384877/why-do-liberals-have-trouble-understanding-pure-evil-jihad-david-french
Comment: And this is the main problem
here… you wont find the majority of the Muslim world coming out and
searing on the Quran that the Lesser Jihad – that of what is known
as a “ Just War”… IS WRONG. !!!
The other problem not mentioned in this
article is popular disambiguation – if for example in 1920 the word
“ gay” meant “ happy”… IT DOESN'T TODAY…
Its the same because AMERICAN pop
culture sees it as a totalitarian danger the same as COMMUNISM… a
threat that wishes to destroy its own culture ( and ..they arnt
wrong)
The average Muslim woman in Europe
gives birth to 3.5 children. The average European 1.4. In fact in
some countries … theres a negative growth rate. Europe needs fresh
blood to work in the factories – do the menial jobs… pay taxes to
keep the state going… ever consuming…
In the struggle for violent and non
violent jihad… one thing is common - the overthrow of the
unbelieving world by all and every means both politically,
economically, ideologically and ...militarily. Individual holy jihad
is for assisting the believer to accomplish this global vision of
world domination.
WHAT DO MUSLIM CLERICS SAY THEMSELVES
ABOUT JIHAD?
There is enough research material if
you look closely to see that in fact ...there isnt a grey zone...not
for the majority of muslims who are living in the West. Jihad is part
of the faith of Islam. Its not a non violent doctrine… NO… in the
video below clerics themselves state clearly that Jihad is about
striking at unbelievers to bring them to Islam. It even states in the
QURAN ( sura 56) to strike TERROR in the hearts of the
disbeliever...” THERE IS NO GREY ZONE.
Respected disciple of Mohammed DEEDAT –
Sheikh Zakir Naik – clearly explains that building any places of
worship in Islamic countries is forbidden.
This shocking video should be aired on
every TV station in Europe and in all the West if you think this is
all a joke… an illusion. No- JIHAD IS A PILLAR OF ISLAM. And its
NOT a spiritual struggle within oneself… it is collectively
understood as a MILITANT struggle by all and any means overt-
deceptive- economic- political- intellectual...and physical.
This is unfortunately what we are
facing here. If the political leaders in the West do nothing about
it… this cancer will grow in our society ...and it will lead to
further polarisation as time goes by… and eventually… every day
normal people sick and tired of putting up with violence on their
streets will take the law into their own hands…
If the government fails the people…
fails to see the threat of psychologically allowing lesser jihad to
take over our civilisation , our values… and indeed ...even greater
jihad for that matter – when it comes to winning the hearts and the
minds of the disenfranchised 99% …
we will see bloody civil war on our
streets..riots…uprisings…this is NOT about racism...its NOT about
religionist exclusion… NOT about Islamophobia… we cannot
apologise for a doctrine that promotes terrorism. Its like watching
someone beat their dog each week or month… and saying..well ...its
not all people that do that – and then you ask the person why he or
she is doing that… and they say.. “ its my faith… I have to do
it every Sunday!”…
But I also am working on myself to
eradicate my own demons…
So you let him or her continue doing
what they are doing. If we allow Muslims who live...who work...who
make money..who invest… who build mosques … their own faith
schools… who procreate 3 times more than the average Europeans
...who use our social welfare system.. who benefit form our
universities… to live out this warped ideology of supremacy… then
we are the fools.
If you come in peace… welcome. If you
wish to follow the law of the land...welcome… but if you want to
hold onto your belief of domination ...or if you wish to impose your
order onto our civilisation and its values… if you believe by doing
so… you are performing a holy duty…
if you honestly believe in jihad as a
vehicle to impose your views and will onto Europe and the world…
then… you must pack up and leave… !
Its that simple.
Final Note: I know and love many
Muslims around the world. They are great people. My friends. I also
know many Jews… many Buddhists...Hindus...Christians and atheists…
yet because I have come out against the doctrine of JIHAD… I have
been labelled as a “ white supremacist sexist racist extremist
Zionist Crusader bigot...” ( I think Ive included most of the
criticisms..the rest is unprintable- the slurs and name calling –
even the defamation and lies … I really don’t care about- why?
Because ...
NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE
TRUTH.
I am against the use of indiscriminate violence and
corrupt methods of control and manipulation to further the goals and
ambitions of those who would take the free world into their medieval
mindset.
Make no mistake… this issue is not about Islamophobia..Ive
seen so much beauty in this faith… so much brotherhood..love...and
community.., Muslims do really care about social justice ..giving to
the poor… hospitality… sometimes much more than Christians.
But to condone terrorism by saying nothing and doing nothing
about the Paris attacks ( paying lip service – and trying to say…
well look at what the West has done to Muslims…) - you live here…
amongst us… the foreign policy of the European nations may not be
the best… but you can lobby to change that… as I did way back in
1991 when I was the only one to publicly do so and was voted by the
Sun newspaper as twit of the week for trying to stop the invasion of
Iraq …
Long before the STOPTHE WAR coalition started doing anything…
I came out against invading IRAQ.
Neither can this extremist element label me as a Christian
extremist – why? Because I'm a Rainbow Focaliser having organised
over 10 interfaith gatherings around the world in the last 25 years.
Nor can I be labelled a racist – as the political founder of
the Africa Unite party I CAMPAIGNED TIRELESSLY AGAINST RACIALLY
MOTIVATED VIOLENCE… ( And I don't want to talk about my activism
as an anti apartheid student on campus in Johannesburg in 1981.
( see www.africauniteparty.org)
Finally, I myself knows what injustice feels like. I was
wrongly imprisoned by this country for 3 and a half years… but
instead of taking up the sword.. I went to the appeal courts and won
my case… proving my innocence!!!
The truth is I feel that the rise of Islam in the West is NOT
in the spirit of what people want… to spread your religion through
fear… NO…
It is only the religion of LOVE that will dominate this
Earth one day. And God is LOVE!
But I'm not going to kill you to prove it… my inner war is
with myself… my own demons… and my outer war is with those who
would use injustice,terror and deception to blind the world of this
fact.
Jihad is the 6th pillar of Islam… no doubt. It
includes ( the lesser vehicle) – armed struggle against the
unbeliever… even the moderate Muslims who are regarded as the
Jahili- the backslidden Muslims… As a course of action… Muslims
need to themselves stand up to this evil ideal. An ideal that will
take us all back to the dark ages… if they agree its not important…
well ...history will prove them very wrong when next they fall victim
to these ignorant – lost people.
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