WHAT IS JIHAD?- is it a pillar of Islam that allows Muslims to commit Indiscriminate violence?- jihad bil kuffar?
jihad
dʒɪˈhɑːd/
jihad... what does it mean?-
noun
noun: jihad; plural noun: jihads; noun: jehad; plural noun: jehads
1. (among Muslims) a war or struggle against unbelievers.
"he declared a jihad against the infidels"
Islam
the spiritual struggle within oneself against sin.
noun: greater jihad; noun: greater jehad; plural noun: greater jihads
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.
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The horses that were usually slain in battle were the 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..
WHAT ARE THE AIMS OF JIHAD?
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.
The arabic word for war is: "al-harb".
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.
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. ...of the self...
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.
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.
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 heading 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 wilful 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.
THIS VIDEO IS A MUST SEE:::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4LmGPg8ScQ
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.
conclusion: what now?
IF WE ARE TO STOP FUTURE TERRORISM ON OUR STREETS WE NEED TO LOBBY OUR GOVERNMENTS TO STOP TERRORISM IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES... BUT MORE IMPORTANT... WE NEED TO ENGAGE WITH THE MUSLIM COMMUNITIES HERE IN EUROPE AND ASK THEM IF THEY REALLY WANT TO BE OUR FELLOW EUROPEAN CITIZENS OR NOT... WHETHER THEY ARE WILLING TO RENOUNCE THIS SICK IDEOLOGY OF MILITANT ISLAMISM...MILITANT JIHADISM... IN WHATEVER FORM...
LIKE GAY PEOPLE CAME OUT AND SAID THEY WERE GAY... MUSLIMS NEED TO COME OUT AND SAY... WE DONT BELIEVE IN MILITANT ISLAMISM, IN FACT WE RENOUNCE THE PRINCIPLE OF MILITANT JIHAD
- jihad bil kuffar- war against the unbelievers... , THE LESSER JIHAD... AND WE PROCLAIM OURSELVES AS EUROPEAN WITH THE SAME VALUES AND RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE... WE RENOUNCE JIHAD...and if so... they are welcome to continue to enjoy the rights and the privileges we all share...
but if they continue to uphold this belief of radicalised Islam... they need to be stripped of their citizenship and be sent to wherever they or their ancestors originated from.
We dont have to PUT UP with terror on our streets AND FEAR OF OUR SAFETY AND SECURITY IN OUR SCHOOLS, OFFICES AND CITIES...
I pray our leaders will have the political will to implement real change in our society before another human being gets murdered in cold blood. WE DID NOT DEFEAT HITLER AND COMMUNISM AT GREAT COST- TO BE RULED BY ISLAM...AND ABU -BAG-DADDY... OR SOME OTHER ANAL TWISTED NARCISSISTIC NUTTER. !!!
THE PARIS ATTACKS WERE THE BIGGEST ACT OF WAR ON FRENCH SOIL- SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR!!!! ... A WAR IN WHICH MILLIONS OF EUROPEANS SACRIFICED WITH THEIR BLOOD TO WIN OUR FREEDOM.
LET US NOT FORGET WHY WE FOUGHT THAT WAR IN THE FIRST PLACE... LEST WE FORGET THOSE WHO PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE FOR OUR FREEDOMS...OUR WAY OF LIFE... AS FAULTY AS IT IS... ITS GOT A LOT MORE GOING FOR IT THAN MOST ISLAMIC COUNTRIES UNDER TH RULE OF SUSPICION AND FEAR...AND PREJUDICE ...AND RELIGIOUS RACISM.
NO... IF AS EUROPEANS - WHO ARE EQUAL AND HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS WANT TO LIVE AS BROTHERS ... THEY ARE WELCOME... BUT IF NOT...
THEY NEED TO GO.
FULLSTOP.
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