JIHAD PATIENCE AND PERSEVERENCE

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MM AKBAR

The term ‘Jihad’ more often than not, pops up in the discussions on terrorism, liberation struggles and com- munalism. Jihad has been defined by many as Holy war, Rebellion against non believers or ‘Crusade’ for Islamising the world. It is often conveniently forgotten that to have a proper understanding of Jihad, what one needs to do is to go through prophet’s life. This book is a study on Jihad through the lights of prophet’s life which analyses what Jihad is and when it becomes suffering and struggle. What makes this work out- standing is that it carries out a counter stroke in their own coin against ‘academic’ works that aims to prove that Jihad is riot, war and cruelty and it substantiates the humanness in wars which Islam permitted, while comparing the scriptural references on the same in other major religions.

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