The Concept of Jihad in Islam

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vative and for this

reason that we find within our own

historical tradition that we learn and

teach that the when people were

struggling for the sake of God in all of

these various ways which includes the

most difficult form which is actual

physical struggle in combat that there

were many occasions in the history of

Islam in which the goal that was

intended could have been achieved

had

in treacherous but because the people

that were struggling with these

principles refuse to use any means that

were unacceptable in their tradition

they did not achieve the goals that they

could have achieved had they broke in

contracts had they betrayed trust had

they nullified treaties all of these

types of situations could have been used

if they said well our goal is so noble

we can use ignoble needs to achieve it

but because they didn't and we have much

historical evidence in our tradition of

this that was because of this

understanding that they had moral

constraints preventing them from doing

anything that would have been able then

to use those means the government also

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apparently happy and this is why we

believe that those earlier people when

they fought and historians marvel at

their victories we believe that at the

root of their victories was the fact

that they were not using these means

that God did not sanction and because we

believe that if a human being

uses those means if he has a journey and

he wants to shorten the journey by a way

that is not permitted for him to do that

that heat that God will prevent him from

reaching his goal even if the goal is a

noble goal and that is why that they

they were given a victory in these

endeavors is because they did have these

principles behind them in many instances

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look at it and this is why we have in

our own tradition salahuddin which is

called saluting an AUV the famous Muslim

ruler from that I Ruben who conquered

Jerusalem when he was fighting Richard

the lion-hearted there was a point when

his information came that Richard the

Lionheart was sick and one of the things

that salahuddin had done in his studies

was mastered the medicine of his age and

at that point in danger to his own life

he actually went and met with Richard

the Lionheart to treat him as a

physician and so he said that when he

did that that that what he was doing was

representing the the noble the noble

tradition he had he been Machiavelli and

on had he been wanting to use any means

to achieve his goal and he would have

been happy that his enemy was sick and

hoped that he died but that was not in

the nature of that person and so he

actually went to help that person had

that many panthan Hayami and a--they

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oh my god and so for this reason this

story is not for us amen

this story is not something that people

made up this is a actual methodology

that was being implemented which is a

prophetic methodology because what he

said was had Richard had salahuddin

wanted this man to die what he was

desiring was vengeance in his own heart

which is prohibited but he did not want

that he was struggling for the sake of

God not for the sake of himself and for

that reason when that person became sick

his state change from a competent to a

human being that that needed help and so

he said he said that what at that point

he moved to another principle which is

that there is a reward in treating any

human being whether they're Muslim or

not Muslim and so he acted on that

principle and that's why this that what

you did was in accordance with what we

understand that this this means the

tradition this is not anomalous this is

actually representative of what the

tradition is and that let me echo um

though there is enough of an innocent

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and the initial Hades in we do it and

the reason for this is that this was a

lawyer who was not fighting with his own

strength he was not fighting believing

that it was he who was going to be

victorious nor was he fighting for the

sake of his own victory but rather he

was fighting knowing that the outcome

was to God that it was God who gave

people victory in this world and it was

God who caused people to lose in this

world not one's own abilities and

efforts and also he was not destructive

for himself but rather for the sake of

God and because this was the background

in the basis of his actions this is why

what was reflected in his behavior was

as high as principal oh yeah I really

had a hard time sort of a long time that

you had because he also knew that had he

been doing this for his own sake that he

would not be given victory from God

because God would not allow that to

happen

he had anything for that reason we

believe that that is why he was given

victory is because he was the embodiment

of the highest moral principles

and if he can Yankee unfaithful when he

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reason that when he was finally given

victory and came into this city he did

not have you been fighting for himself

had he been fighting from these selfish

reasons when he came in he would have

humiliated the people that he's been

given victory over and he would have

done the things that people at that time

would have naturally done when they were

given victory but instead when he came

into that city not only did he not

harmed those people but who actually

honored the people treated them with the

highest respect commanded all of his

soldiers not to harm any church not to

break any crosses

even though the Crusaders who have come

and occupied that territory that was

under the Muslim control they have done

a horrific thing but he did not go in

for vengeance of what they've done in

the past but went in for the sake of God

and because of that he adhere to the

constraints and struggled against his

own self suppressing those natural human

urges for vengeance Khedira by the

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this reason that the promise of our

incident when he came after 23 years of

opposition from the people of Mecca who

had fought him opposed him harmed him

and done all of these things after 23

years when he came with at the head of a

victorious army and some of his

followers as they were entering into the

city they suddenly felt like now they

were going to get back some of what they

had been dented in and somebody made the

remark today's today is going to be a

day of Muhammad which in Arabic is like

a day of slaughter and the Prophet

Muhammad when he heard him say that so

Allah said and he looked at him and said

today is not a day of slaughter today is

a day of compassion and mercy God I had

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well he had a Mecca

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you on who is in it he was entering into

this city and there were two people in

that city one of them had killed one of

the most beloved people to him who was

his uncle and he had actually chopped

off his nose and his ears mutilating him

on the battlefield in humiliation and

there was another person who had paid

him to do that but actually cut open his

body and took out his liver and bit in

it and shoot it and spit it out as an

act of contempt for this man and these

two people were in that city when the

Prophet Mohammed salat is them was

entering in with his army man had and

now have thank you my love and we'll get

some more languages we'll see how would

I thought I had to have any such thing

and then each I had against a lady on

the other schooled in that well I just

go with that and I'm a good villain and

the father but whatever was the Garmon

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after I talk about like in the movie the

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when he came into the city there has

been four people who had done a

particularly horrific crimes against

Muslims in their persecution and torture

and killing people and those people he

put on abyss of capital that they would

be punished with capital punishment but

from those people was not those two

people who had actually Massacre and

have mutilated the body of his uncle and

he said that this is the day of mercy

when you came into that city those two

people when they saw the state of this

man

and forgiveness of his show that his

people they came and they embraced his

religion and when they did that he

actually sat with them and took them

into Islam and they are now considered

to be a companions of the prophet Elijah

known as Abba and they're honored by all

Muslims and he said that that these two

these two people that the public

Alliance one of the fact that he

embraced these two people is testimony

to to this mercy that he showed these

people way that kind of had that Emily

and Nephi my own skin anyway after I had

the Jumeirah school if you had this aura

and by the Allah and the horn actor

apathy you have undergone what he had

that left Hamill and jihad who had that

from the bar Philly liquor for Eva I

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laid a little Google button machine

idiotic what happened the definite

article machine when I was little I

never Google so for this reason at the

root of all of this again is that jihad

is in our understanding it is to

remember Harlem it is to remove those

things which harm in the society and

this is not in order to punish others if

that is the intention it is not you have

the the the point of it is to remove

aggression from somebody so what is

being fought is the the harm that is

coming from that person not the actual

person themselves it is simply the harm

and that is why the people are not

then we have no difficulty or problem

envisioned in conviviality with those

people but it is when there's an element

of farm there that jihad one of the

types of jihad is to repel that honor

and to stop that aggression and then the

shape said and if this is our

understanding as I presented it to you

of combative jihad then because of the

element that is very distasteful to

people in any type of violence and it's

an attempt to elevate this this aspect

of the human being and it should be

understood that the other aspects of

jihad are have even higher and more

exalted principles and understandings

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they wound me well about the morality of

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scientist fatiah math ability she had

she had me in the room acidity via the

thought of the idea in at the table when

I came home with an ensign shut up in

the women in our seal elected Martinez

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being opposed here is valium in a cosmic

faith who know how to hit my Mahina

sorry to come in an hour

nothing when I retired you could eat the

third key language I had at the Embassy

so for that reason I returned to my

first premise and that was that we are

in diary that you had today in the world

and I would put in those categories

economic jihad we need to remove the

that economics is having on human beings

that there's elements now within

economics because economics is now

serving selfish interest and not serving

a human being and the the store are

consuming the weak the rich get richer

and the poor get poorer and then the

weak because they're in that situation

began to have contempt and hatred for

the rich and and so again we go back to

that imbalance we need a jihad in our

politics in see a second that the the

point of politics is in order for human

beings to have social order and justice

and when there's harm that begins to

come from the political systems

themselves then there has to be that

those homes have to be stopped and it's

early Apple II that Martha and the corn

header society the economy Akram our

goal should never be to achieve power

that in the world if the goal is I want

to be the ruler and that's my jihad is

to remove the present rulers then there

is a misunderstanding the goal should be

to rectify those who are in power to see

them and who are now causing harm to be

brought back to the truth and to be

helping people in utilizing their

positions of authority in ways that

benefit human being we are an ADEA Ghul

and I believe in Islam it is hardly able

with an embellishment I needed happy

when I heard when they enacted by never

and this is why Imams are always used to

say a famous Egyptian scholar he said

anyone who tells you I watch a rule in

the name of this around he is a liar

because he said that the point is not to

rule in the name of Islam but the point

is to be

interpreter constraint and actually be

ruled by principles of justice and truth

and goodness that that that is what you

should want not to rule others but that

yourself is ruled by those principles

that you would like to see in others and

he said we are also in need of a jihad

and knowledge that the knowledge is now

that human beings have arrived that are

not being used to the best benefits of

human beings but actually much harm is

coming from those knowledge --is and so

we have scientists out there that are

using their knowledge to develop and I

wanted just to add one example to bring

this home the in during the Vietnam War

and one of the things that one of the

things that we did and I say we need

America we used a chemical weapon called

napalm and so what the Vietnamese and

the Viet Cong needs to do in the

villages because of all of the civilian

we're actually haunted by this bond when

they caught and as euphemistic term

collateral damage

they built pools of water and they used

to have in the villages pools of water

so that if the village got hit by napalm

they could take the women and children

and put them in those Helene and so some

very clever American scientists

developed a type of napalm that was not

affected by water so that when the

person went into the water it still kept

eating their flesh and I'm sure they

were probably very nice people that

maybe lived up in the suburbs or

something or Los Altos went to church on

Sunday and probably felt good about

their work but this is the type of youth

that our knowledge is that have been

given to help people end up being used

for

all people and so we need we've got

people genetically modified foods that

they don't really know what they're in

all these things so that you have that

you find out knowledge is gonna be

hotter that will remove that harm from

the knowledge and then he said we also

need a jihad in our houses so that our

families are protected that domestic

harm is protected that children are not

harmed in their houses that women are

not harmed in their homes that our

children are being protected from the

harmful influences in society and that

they're being raised with with proper

principle and ideal that will make them

beneficial citizen and then we get back

to the real source of all of it what we

really need at the root of all of this

in the jihad against our own individual

souls that each one of us has to commit

to struggling against their own worst

impulses in themselves I feel for what

in that land

when my opponent and Athena could

actually have ten tiny affinity huh

without your knowledge

Leviathan earlier and what you will see

the solidus tyrannically under this new

morality I gotta a lot understand so the

point is is that we don't live for

pleasure that our lives should not be

just pleasure principle that is

motivating us so that everything we do

is somehow to give us personal trainers

but rather we use instead of making

pleasure a goal in and of itself we use

pleasure in this world as a means to

giving us the ability to sustain our

struggle in the world for the highest

principle of human beings

this people they repair asking that God

show all of us the truth and give us the

ability to follow the truth and to show

us what is false and give us the ability

to avoid what is false and the ask that

we hope that all of the hearts are given

life and given guidance in their hearts

and above her faith and what if you