Islamic Article- Jihad

What is "Jihad?

While islam is generally misunderstood in the West'
perhaps no other Islamic term evokes such storng reactions as "jihad" The Arabic word "JIHAD" which is most always mistranslated as "holy war: simply means "to struggle" or to exert one's utmost offort " it is incorrect to imagine that jihad is synonymous only with fighting or war" for this is bt one particular aspect of the term jihad is a struggle to do good and to remove injustice oppression and evil from oneself and from society This struggle is spiritual, social, economic, and political,

indeed the concept of jihad is one of life and it is vast , nt limited only to armed conflict for example, one finds in the Quraan mention of jihad by means of the Quraan meaning invitation to the truth evidence clarificatinn and presenting the best argument There is also jihad of the soul " which means striving to purify the soul to increase its faith and incline it toward good while keeping it from evil and from unlawful desires and temptations: Then there is jihad through wealth " which means
spending it in various beneficial ways" including charities and welfare projects And there is jihad through the self which comprises al good works done by a believer such as propagation teaching and finally lawful armed struggle against aggression and appression:
in the name of jihad Islam calls for the protection of societies from oppression foreign domination and dictatorships that usurp rights and freedom, that abolish just and moral rule that prevent people from hearing the truth or following it, and that practice religious persecution in the name of jihad it endeavors to teach belief in Allah " the one supreme God and worship of Him and to spread good values virtue and morality through wise and proper methods Allah has commanded:

invite to the way of Your Lord with wisdom and good instruction and argue with them in a way that is best:

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