UNDERSTANDING JIHAD

Does Jihad only and simply mean to kill non Muslims?.


Praise be to Allaah.




In Arabic, the word jihad means striving and expending ones energy.

In Islamic terminology, jihad means the Muslim striving to make the word of Allaah supreme and to establish His religion on earth.

The purpose of jihad in Islam is not to kill non-Muslims, rather the purpose is to establish the religion of Allaah on earth, to establish the rule of His shareeah, and to bring people forth from the worship of other people to the worship of the Lord of all people, from the injustice of other religions to the justice of Islam. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

And fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief and polytheism, i.e. worshipping others besides Allaah), and the religion (worship) will all be for Allaah Alone

[al-Anfaal 8:39]

Shaykh Abd al-Rahmaan al-Sadi said in his commentary on this verse:

Here Allaah states the purpose behind fighting for His sake, which is not to shed the blood of the kaafirs and take their wealth; rather the purpose is so that all religion (worship) will be for Allaah alone, and the religion of Allaah will prevail over all other religions, and everything that goes against that, whether it is shirk or anything else which is what is meant by fitnah will be repelled. If this purpose is achieved, there will be no killing or fighting.

Tafseer Ibn Sadi, p., 98

The kuffaar whom we fight will themselves benefit from jihad. We strive against them and fight them so that they will enter the religion of Allaah which is acceptable to Him, which will lead to their salvation in this world and in the Hereafter. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

You (true believers in Islamic Monotheism, and real followers of Prophet Muhammad and his Sunnah) are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind; you enjoin Al-Maroof (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam has ordained) and forbid Al-Munkar (polytheism, disbelief and all that Islam has forbidden), and you believe in Allaah

[Aal Imraan 3:110]

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[MJacksonFakeDeath]

I am becoming muslim

[MJacksonFakeDeath]

I'm not muslim but bible says kill non believers.

If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant; 17:3

[Devilz302302]

@CF1180GD: You Kind Of Bloody English Peoples or army are now in fire !

You just have a tongue like dog have !

You have no power but with us Our ALLAH Is , was and will be forever !

In Afghanistan why your army is still coming ? because you coward people still can't kill TALIBAN ! and that is true that you can't few peoples ???

they ( TALIBAN ) are not well trained,

Allah train them, Allah is with US , Still you coward people are coming but what you and your NATO and BLACK water got ???

[CF1180GD]

@Glukozafan You know nothing of free thinking people. We are free to think......we are free to explore our thoughts...  We will happily go to war to defend our freedoms, and die for our cause, just as you.

[CF1180GD]

Bring your jihad here....we'll fry every one of  you bastards.

[pkbalki]

Alhamdulillah... This is the real thafseer of JIHAD>

[ummubasma]

Barakallah feeky:) Jazakillah khairan, just what we need to talk about, elahmdulillah...it's in the media, jihad, so it's our chance to do dawah and remind ouselves:)