Sentences with phrase «understood jihad»
For most of Islam's history, the vast majority of Muslims, including Muslim scholars and religious leaders, have clearly understood jihad to mean primarily a holy war to expand and defend the realm of Islam.
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Understand, the overwhelming majority of Muslim clerics around the world, renouse Jihad with the west.
Christians understand that Islam requires Jihad to bring back their Imam.
In order to make sense of the Qur» anic passages about jihad, for instance, it is helpful to know more about Islamic understandings of God, revelation, and the religious and social requirements for the faithful.
The Qur» an: Many who want to understand Islam turn instinctively to the Qur» an to read the scriptures for themselves, They ask what the Qur» an says about Christians and Jews, the Day of Judgment, the status of women, martyrdom, the meaning of jihad and so forth.
If we all understand the threat to freedom and democracy that Jihad and Sharia law pose we can come up with a hopefully peaceful solution to the problems.
As I understand it, jihad was originally intended as spiritual warfare too, but that concept barely got past the prophet Muhammad's tent flap before it came to mean physical battle.
That's an understanding of jihad I'm happy to live next door to.
«Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country can not be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life.»
«In the quest to understand the hearts and minds of those who practise militant jihad,» Kendall writes, «neglecting to interrogate the poetry that speaks to both would seem a fundamental oversight.»
The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and «sabotaging» its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah's religion is made victorious over all other religions»