Jihad - A Holy War

Jihad was a word unfamiliar to the ear of the United States. However, in recent years it has become very familiar. Muslim militants and acts of terrorists killed American consciousness. But even if thousands of innocent civilians were murdered by American Islamic terrorists, the full meaning of the Muslim jihad concept is not yet grasped by American citizens. Since 11th September 2001, the American leaders rushed Islam as a "peaceful religion" hijacked by enthusiastic terrorists.

In Islam, we are seeing the concept of "jihad", a jihad. The term jihad literally means "struggle", but this concept is used to explain the war in expansion and defense of Islamic territory. The almost constant war in the Middle East in the past half century has certainly contributed to the fact that religion is the cause of many wars. The September 11 attack on the United States was seen as a jihad against America's Great Satan, but from the Muslim perspective America is almost synonymous with Christianity. In Judaism, the conquest war (especially Joshua) recorded in the Old Testament conquered the promised land.

The word jihad does not mean "jihad". It means "struggle" or "struggle". The word war in the Qur'an is "Harb" or "Qital". Jihad means serious and sincere struggle both at the individual level and at the social level. In order to do good and eliminate social injustice, oppression and evil are struggles. This battle should be spiritual, social, economic, and political. Jihad is trying to do the right thing. In the Quran, words were used 33 times in various forms. It often involves other concepts of the Quran such as faith, repentance, justice, and immigration.

By the way, the word jihad means struggle and effort. Jihad can be mentioned to persuade individual Muslims to fight, to align their will with Allah, or to accept other peoples' peace efforts. However, jihad may mean jihad. Indeed, there is a sense that the only complete Justice War in Islam is jihad. Because it is approved by appropriate religious authorities and must be mobilized to defend or promote Muslim and Muslim communities. (Kersai, Johnson) The Qur'an object to forcing others to believe, but Muslim leaders may threaten to kill unbelievers if they do not accept Islam (Peters). Muslims were mainly spread through "beautiful sermons" to some parts of the world like Indonesia, but most of the expansion in other places was due to aggressive war. , Syria, Iraq, Persia, parts of India, North Africa, Spain, Turkey, Balkans