The True Jihad
The True Jihad
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who engage in this
jihad
will be held deserving of
paradise in the Hereafter.
‘
Jihad
’ essentially is a peaceful struggle. One form of
this peaceful struggle is
dawah
(communication of
the message of God).
The Quran States:
Do not yield to the unbelievers, but fight them
strenuously with it (the Quran) (25:52).
No military activity is referred to in this verse of the
Quran. We are not meant to engage in physical
combat with the non-believers. What this verse
actually means is that we must engage ourselves in
dawah
activities through the teachings of the Quran,
that is, striving ourselves to the utmost on an
ideological plane, while sifting truth from
falsehood.
Even in the face of a military challenge from the
enemy, all efforts will be made to counter
aggression by peaceful methods. The path of peace
can be abandoned only when it has become
impossible to stick to it, and only when there is no
