In the general prospectives, jihad means that you should fight with all yor efforts who steals or takes by force your money, your kids,wife or your land. So, it is for defense puposes only.
jihad means doing one’s utmost to realize a goal. It is not the equivalent of war, for which Arabic and the Qur’an use qital. Jihad has a wider connotation and embraces every kind of striving in God’s cause. A mujahid is devoted to his or her cause; uses all physical, intellectual, and spiritual capacities to serve it.
Jihad’s related principle, that of amr bi al-ma‘ruf wa nahy ‘an al-munkar (enjoining good and forbidding evil), seeks to convey the benefits of Islam to everyone and to convince them to abandon all of their evil practices. Mona(Cairo)
As sister Mona said Jihad is to fight to achieve something and it is not necessary related to the war. Actually, this kind of Jihad which concludes fighting is our smallest and less important Jihad. As Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)said to his companions when they returned from one of the battles"we got back from the smallest Jihad to the greatest jihad" which means that we came back to our daily life which requires to fight with your desires and yourself to do the good deeds.
see BCC page about Jihad: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/beliefs/jihad_1.shtml
I think the West understands very well the meaning of jihad in Islam, but it makes a lot of suspicions even mix between jihad and terrorism, making the violent image of Islam, so do not enter people in Islam i agree with dr mohammed abd allah Jihad in Islam means fighting fore protecting your self and all people from any harm.
Here is the BBC's page on Jihad
ReplyDeleteIn the general prospectives, jihad means that you should fight with all yor efforts who steals or takes by force your money, your kids,wife or your land. So, it is for defense puposes only.
ReplyDeletejihad means doing one’s utmost to realize a goal. It is not the equivalent of war, for which Arabic and the Qur’an use qital. Jihad has a wider connotation and embraces every kind of striving in God’s cause. A mujahid is devoted to his or her cause; uses all physical, intellectual, and spiritual capacities to serve it.
ReplyDeleteJihad’s related principle, that of amr bi al-ma‘ruf wa nahy ‘an al-munkar (enjoining good and forbidding evil), seeks to convey the benefits of Islam to everyone and to convince them to abandon all of their evil practices.
Mona(Cairo)
As sister Mona said Jihad is to fight to achieve something and it is not necessary related to the war. Actually, this kind of Jihad which concludes fighting is our smallest and less important Jihad. As Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)said to his companions when they returned from one of the battles"we got back from the smallest Jihad to the greatest jihad" which means that we came back to our daily life which requires to fight with your desires and yourself to do the good deeds.
ReplyDeletesee BCC page about Jihad:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/beliefs/jihad_1.shtml
Jihad in Islam means fighting fore protecting your self and all people from any harm.
ReplyDeleteI think the West understands very well the meaning of jihad in Islam, but it makes a lot of suspicions even mix between jihad and terrorism, making the violent image of Islam, so do not enter people in Islam
ReplyDeletei agree with dr mohammed abd allah
Jihad in Islam means fighting fore protecting your self and all people from any harm.