The True Jihad
Non-Violence and Islam
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to the Islamic Shariah itself, if the involved Muslims
are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims
are also indirectly responsible.
It is Muslims’ religious and secular leaders who
are actually responsible for this violent approach
on the part of Muslims today. In modern times
when Muslims have had to undergo the
experience of defeat, almost all the religious and
secular scholars as well as intellectuals followed
one single line, that of awakening the spirit of
jihad
(in the sense of
qital
) among Muslims. The
entire Muslim world reverberated with such
slogans as ‘jihad is our way’ and
‘Jihad
is the only
solution to our problems!’
The entire world has witnessed a great number of
large and small movements in violent response to
the problems faced by Muslims. If you go to
Palestine, you will hear young people singing a
song, no doubt taught to them by their elders:
Let’s make war, let’s make war,
For war is the way to success.
