... way of Allah with his life and property." "The best Jihad is to speak the truth before a tyrant ruler"(Hadith). In the West, "jihad" is generally translated as "holy war," a usage the media has popularized. ( The Times, 25th February 2003, "...on another tape, jihad, el-faisal instructs his audience to use chemical weapons to exterminate non-believers". According to Islamic teachings, it is UNHOLY to instigate or start war; however, some wars are inevitable and justifiable. If we translate the words "holy war" back into Arabic, we find "harbun muqaddasatu," or for "the holy war," "al-harbu al-muqaddasatu." We challenge any researcher or scholar to find the meaning of "jihad" as holy war in the Qur'an or authentic Hadith collections or in early Islamic literature. Unfortunately, some Muslim writers and translators of the Qur'an, the Hadith and other Islamic literature translate the term "jihad" as "holy war," due to the influence of ...

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