True Meaning OF Jihad In IslamIntroduction: There are a lot of misconceptions going on around about the word Jihad now a day. The Zionist controlled Islamophobic western media shows it as a tool to prove Muslims a cruel nation filled of terrorists and Islam as a religion as a religion of insane people which allows bloodshed of innocent people, Nauzubillah. Some so called Islamist or Islamic Revolutionist groups misinterpret it to pollute the minds of poor young minds and use it to their advantages. The activities of such people have very intense bad effects on the reputation of Islam and Muslims and anti-Islamic and Islamophobist activists use it for blasphemy of Islam and Islamic Countries.

Now whenever the word ‘Jihad’ is mentioned, the scenes of AK firing, people slaughtered, suicide bombing and women desecrated punished or victimized, comes to the mind of many people. It comes to the mind of these people that Jihad means some holy war, terrorism or strong acts of violence especially those who are easily influenced by the media or have been the victim of those so called Muslim Mujahideen.

But it is the color of glass that is red not the drink in it. We will be putting some light on the truth in the darkness. Here we will

clarify through proofs –logical and from Qur’an and Sunnah, how Jihad does not always mean the violent action or holy war (as the term used by western media and anti-Islamic activists who try to cause haterd against Islam and Muslims) and all of this Islamic terrorism is a propaganda put by those people.

Islam – The religion of peace: Starting with, lot of people have misconceptions about Islam – non-Muslims and those ignorant of it. They think that Islam orders such violent behavior with its disbelievers. Let’s first demonstrate what is Islam.

Literal meaning of Islam: The word Islam is derived from

two main root words i.e Isteslama (استسالما) meaning ‘to

surrender’ and As-Salam (السالم) meaning ‘the peace’.

If only the name has meaning ‘peace’ then it will be very irrelevant or contradictory for such a religion to allow bloodshed or violence without any reason especially of innocent people. About it’s other meaning ‘submission/surrender’, it means to submit before Allah and accept him as the Most Superior Power. Other religions also contain such terms for their respective lords so it is hypocrisy that they use this meaning of Islam for wrong meanings and wrong interpretations of it, trying to pulverize Islam. Combining

both the meanings ‘submission’ and ‘peace’, the meaning we can logically derive according to the structure of Islam is as:

“Islam is an agreement between a believer and Allah in which the believer surrenders his/her will and selfish desires before Allah’s will and desire and gets peace and protection in return”.

Teachings of Islam: Nowhere in Islam, the bloodshed of innocent people or law undertaking without the permission of Islamic State, is allowed. In fact killing one innocent human is considered killing the whole humanity; strong warnings and punishments are for those who unlawfully or unjustly harms someone. Any kind of individual suicide is not allowed, suicide bombing is a whole different story. It is strongly forbidden to trample dead bodies. The use of violent action is only allowed in severe cases where it becomes inevitable to stay humble and that too only against the transgressors and under certain specified limits. Anyone to cross those limits is intensively warned and is liable to get punished under Islamic law.

The only lord we all Muslims follow is Allah Almighty who is very merciful. According to Islam, the start of everything should be started with Tasmiah i.e. ( الرحيم الرحمن الله In the) (بسمname of Allah, the most Gracious and the most Merciful). Will such a graceful and merciful Lord allow the oppression of weak and killing of innocent people? Will such a religion allow such?

And the most pious Prophet to which it was revealed, will He bear it? No, Never. Allah is in no need to force anyone to obey Him or he/she will be killed. He has already so many angels to praise and obey Him. If He wished, He could make man so from the start and He doesn’t need any one human to kill another one. He just wills and it happens. So there is no clue Islam is a religion promoting violence. Instead if we look there are countless games, TV shows, music, movies and programs that are being developed, produced or hosted by the Media promoting violent behavior. The so called Islamic activists, revolutionists and Mujahideen are too funded by the anti-Islamic groups at state level.

Literal Meaning of Jihad:

Before saying anything else about Jihad, let’s first look at its literal meaning as the literal meaning often gives the basis of the main idea to which it is related. The word jihad is derived from its root words Juhd (جہد) meaning ‘struggle’ or ‘effort’ and Ijtihad (اجتہاد) meaning ‘diligence’.

So by general literal meaning, we can conclude that Jihad is simply the struggle for a specific purpose or aim of life and since by theme it involves ‘resistance’ too so to resist or endure any kind of hurdle and all the pain to come in the way.

By religious terms, it means “to struggle for the cause of Islam, Fi Sabili-llah (in the path of Allah Almighty); to resist whatever factors that prevent from it (in a justified way) and endure the difficulties that come in the way”.

Jihad in Islam -by basic collective meaning: Islam meaning submission and peace while jihad meaning struggle/resist we can conclude by combining the meaning of two as:

“Jihad in Islam, hence mean to struggle or resist in the path of Allah with complete submission towards his orders ,keeping peace and balance to the extent possible”

What type of struggle and resistance? In what way? For what purpose? What kind of balance? Subhan-Allah, we have Qur’an and Sunnah to completely answer all such questions. Focusing on our topic as “The True Meaning of Jihad in Islam”, we will be presenting how it’s not for supporting violence and is for the purposes of peace, justice, freedom and to maintain the word of Allah through Qur’an and Sunnah, giving references from Ayah of Qur’an and Ahadithe Sahih.