{"id":370,"date":"2015-02-26T02:42:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T02:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azmi.co\/cust\/ngba-wp\/?page_id=370"},"modified":"2018-10-18T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T17:26:30","slug":"islam-jihad-jihad-watch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=370","title":{"rendered":"Islam-Jihad &#038; Jihad Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In the name of All\u0101h,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">the Beneficent, the Merciful.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">DEDICATED TO<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Lord of the worlds<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">AND TO<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Mohammad\u2013who brought the world<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">to our feet and eternity to our arms.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">JIHAD &amp; JIHAD WATCH<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><i>Jihad<\/i> does <strong><i>not <\/i><\/strong>mean \u201creligious war\u201d or \u201choly war\u201d in the sense of taking up arms and killing non-Muslims; it is \u201choly war\u201d in the sense of striving against all forms of evil. <i>Jihad <\/i>is the noble struggle against all forms of injustice. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><i>Jihad<\/i><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"> means to \u201cstrive\u201d or exert one\u2019s self in the way of freedom, truth, and justice: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">to strive against our low desires (such as greed, selfishness, covetousness, jealousy, vanity, pride)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">to strive against evil temptations (such as to commit a sin or a wrong against someone)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">to speak out against an injustice<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">to finance or take up arms against occupation, oppression\/ persecution, exploitation, and usurpation <i>(Muslims are allowed to fight only in self-defense; when he is not the aggressor. In Islam, to defend one&#8217;s self, property, and family, and even others who are wronged, is a God-given right)<\/i> <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">to strive with the Qur&#8217;an against false worship. This form of Jihad is known as <i>&#8220;Jihad kabiran&#8221;<\/i>\u2013the mighty striving\u2013(Qur\u2019an 25:52); perhaps because the worst form of bondage is bondage of the intellect. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 The lesser <i>Jihad<\/i>, which is the armed struggle, liberates man physically; and the greater <i>Jihad<\/i>, which is the ideological struggle\u2013 propagating the Qur\u2019anic Message of Allah God\u2013 liberates man morally, intellectually and spiritually. Islam strives to liberate man physically, morally, intellectually and spiritually. Islam liberates man:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">(a<i>) physically<\/i>\u2013in that it gives one freedom of religion, movement and expression. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">(b) <i>morally\u2013<\/i>in that it impresses on us to be modest and moderate; and that the exacting of one\u2019s rights is governed by the instituting of the rights of others<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">(c) <i>intellectually<\/i>\u2013in that it frees man from the degradation of worship of other humans and of nature and idols; and makes man the equal of man, and the master of nature; <span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">and instills in man that the only existence greater than himself is All\u0101h, God; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">(d) <i>spiritually<\/i>\u2013in that it enjoins man to entomb his lower desires; and to robe himself in the garments of prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage and Divine Attributes\u2013which will give him success in this life and in the life to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Islam strives to both liberate and captivate the mind of man\u2013it strives to liberate us from the base and ephemeral, and to captivate us with the virtuous and eternal. There is no better source to be held captive by than All\u0101h, God, and His everlasting grandeur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 It would be unreasonable to cerebrate that the God Who enjoined His believers to swing the steel against the aggressor, oppressor, occupier, usurper, and the destroyers of shrines would condone such actions by His believers themselves. The permission to use the sword is limited to against those who first take up the sword to fight Muslims:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cPermission (to fight) is given to those upon whom<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">war is made because they are oppressed\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cAnd fight in the way of Allah against those<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">who fight against you but be not aggressive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Surely Allah loves not the aggressors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">(Qur&#8217;an 22:39; 2:190)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Fighting for the propagation of Islam is no where mentioned in the Qur\u2019an. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cAnd fight them until there is no persecution,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">and religion is only for Allah. But if they desist,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">then there should be no hostility except against<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">the oppressors.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">(Qur\u2019an 2:193)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThose who are driven from their homes without a just<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">cause except that they say: Our Lord is Allah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And if Allah did not repel some people by others, cloisters<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">and churches, and synagogues and mosques in which Allah&#8217;s<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">name is much remembered, would have been pulled down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And surely Allah will help him who helps Him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Surely Allah is Strong, Mighty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">(Qur\u2019an 22:40).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe religious freedom which was established by Islam thirteen hundred years ago has not yet been surpassed by the most civilized and tolerant of nations. It deserves to be noted that the lives of Muslims are to be sacrificed not only to stop their own persecution by their opponents and to save their own mosques, but to save churches, synagogues and cloisters as well\u2013in fact, to establish perfect religious freedom. The mosques, though they are the places where the name of Allah is remembered most of all, come in for their share of protection even after the churches and the synagogues. Early Muslims closely followed these directions, and every commander of an army had express orders to respect all houses of worship, and even the cloisters of monks, along with their inmates.\u201d(M. Ali, comm. # 1698). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 While there is no injunction in the Qur\u2019an or in the Tradition of the Prophet to spread Islam by the sword, there is a clear injunction to propagate Islam with the Qur\u2019an: \u201cSo obey not the disbelievers, and strive against them a mighty striving with it (the Qur\u2019an)\u201d\u2013(Qur&#8217;an 25:52).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Muslims are also required to undertake jihad on behalf of non-Muslims who are oppressed\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:75).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 50.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">(One Christian commentator said that Muslims have their <i>jihad <\/i>and Christians have the <i>crusade<\/i>. If this is meant to equate the crusade with jihad, there is no comparison. Jihad is a Divinely instituted office for championing truth and justice, whereas the crusade is aggression and man-made).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-left: 50.25pt;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">JIHAD WATCH<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">According to the <i>Internet <\/i>there is an association called\u00a0Jihad Watch. This is so amusing <span style=\"color: purple;\">\u2013man is watching, and maybe even plotting against the precept of, Allah.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 9pt; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">If man would give to others the rights he exact for himself there would be no need for Jihad Watch or for \u201cIslamic terrorism.\u201d And billions, which could be uti-lized for the welfare of society, would not be blown battling \u201cterrorism.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 9pt; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">But even in the short time that he has man is ever bent on doing evil. Till he comes to the graves. When there is no respite. He has had his chance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 9pt; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Jihad Watchers need to \u201cwatch\u201d that they are not impaling their souls on the flames of Hell. The mag-nificence of it is, in the Court of All\u0101h, God, there is no diplomatic immunity, no legal technicality, no hung-jury\/no mistrial; no bribery; no one to \u201cpressure\u201d or bring \u201ccoercion and duress\u201d on; and no godfather to shield behind his coat<span style=\"color: purple;\"> \u2013in fact, the godfather would be hustling for a skirt for himself to hide behind\u2013<\/span> you did the crime, or was involved in it, you toast the time. And considering that one Divine day is equal to a thousand human years, even if the maximum time spent in Hell is twelve months, in Divine terms that would be 365,000 human years. You\u2019re well crisped! <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 9pt; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: red;\">The atheist can deny the existence of God; the atheist cannot disprove the existence of God. All\u0101h has established His existence through His Qur\u2019an <\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2013see <\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=576:quran-science&amp;catid=4:content&amp;Itemid=6\">QUR&#8217;AN-SCIENCE<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">and <\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=575:quran-prophecies&amp;catid=4:content&amp;Itemid=6\">QUR&#8217;AN-PROPHECIES<\/a>). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; text-indent: 9pt; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">It is NOT \u201cIslamicism\u201d that poses any threat to the West; it is the West\u2019s injustice against \u201cIslamicism\u201d that poses a threat to the West.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the name of All\u0101h, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad. DEDICATED TO All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High, Lord of the worlds AND TO Mohammad\u2013who brought the world to our feet and eternity to our arms. * \u00a0 JIHAD &amp; JIHAD WATCH Jihad does not mean \u201creligious war\u201d or \u201choly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-370","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/370\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}