Jihad is regularly misconstrued as war, with all its connotations of violence and bloodshed. However, in the Islamic context, and in the literal sense, the word jihad simply means a struggle—doing…

Because of a wrong interpretation by some Muslims, jihad has come to be understood as war to ‘reform’ others, or what is called in Urdu as muslihana jang (reformist war). These people say that…

The Quran exhorts believers to “strive for the cause of God as it behoves you to strive for it.” (THE QURAN 22:78) .This earnest struggle is expressed in Arabic by the word jihad which is derived…

Those who are introduced to the Quran only through the media, generally have the impression that the Quran is a book of jihad, and jihad to them is an attempt to achieve one's goal by means of…