A Step Towards Unity of Ranks Al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent
... movement spanning different regions. By the grace of Allah, today the ‘Base’ is no longer
confined to Afghanistan; in just over a decade, the blessed call of Jihad has spread from West
Africa to East Asia. The enemies of Islam may fool themselves into believing that they are
facing a ‘numerically sm ...
... and will pass away. It is the duty of every Muslim
to obey the laws of Allah,
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Jihad - Andrew Iverson
... Middle East’s view of war has not changed.
In other words, the Middle East still sees war
as an honorable action.
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Jihad Class Presentation
... If the physical or military sense of the word is needed, which it rarely is, to
protect Islam, then it can be performed by using legal, political, or economic
means. (Islamic Supreme Council)
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Jihad
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."" A person engaged in jihad is called a mujahid, the plural of which is mujahideen (مجاهدين). The word jihad appears frequently in the Quran, 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.Muslims and scholars do not all agree on its definition. Many observers—both Muslim and non-Muslim—as well as the Dictionary of Islam, talk of jihad having two meanings: an inner spiritual struggle (the ""greater jihad""), and an outer physical struggle against the enemies of Islam (the ""lesser jihad"") which may take a violent or non-violent form. Jihad is often translated as ""Holy War"", although this term is controversial. According to Orientalist Bernard Lewis, ""the overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists"", and specialists in the hadith ""understood the obligation of jihad in a military sense."" Javed Ahmad Ghamidi states that there is consensus among Islamic scholars that the concept of jihad will always include armed struggle against wrong doers.It was generally supposed that the order for a general war could only be given by the Caliph (an office that was claimed by the Ottoman sultans), but Muslims who did not acknowledge the spiritual authority of the Caliphate (which has been vacant since 1923)—such as non-Sunnis and non-Ottoman Muslim states—always looked to their own rulers for the proclamation of a jihad. There has been in fact no universal warfare by Muslims on non-believers since the early caliphate. Some proclaimed jihad by claiming themselves as mahdi, e.g. the Sudanese Mahommed Ahmad in 1882. In classical Islam, the military form of jihad was also regulated to protect civilians.Jihad is an important religious duty for Muslims. A minority among the Sunni scholars sometimes refer to this duty as the sixth pillar of Islam, though it occupies no such official status. In Twelver Shi'a Islam, however, jihad is one of the ten Practices of the Religion.
