Terrorism And Jihad (Holy War)Afghan Jihad - Afghanistan ![]() Afgani ![]() Gun with guts ![]() Jihad ![]() Taliban It is the greatest tragedy of the last and present millenium for muslims internationally not to have adopted a uniform jihad policyand to have left it to splinter groups or organizations to frame jihadi policies and to make other act on them. when the major developed countries which happen to be non muslims act in unison in political economic millitary and social matters ,the muslim countries mostly act singly and selfishly. the existence or sects and royalty, class divisions and illetrecy or ignorance in the muslim countries, all foriegn to islam ,have stood in the way of adoption of infied policies and programmes by them. resultantly, this has given an excuse to the powerfull countries to label true jihadi muslim movements terrorist or anti humanity and has given them a chance to dominate or crush the muslim countries where the jihadi organizations are based or to decide to the muslims goverments. terrorism means the threat or use of force against civilians or armed forces for political purposes. groups of terrorists,acting singly or jointly engage in bombings, killings ,hijackings ,skyjackingsand large scale of property. the dimension of suicide attacks and bombings has been added to the regular terrorist efforts in the 20th and 21st centuries. now international terrorism is on the rise as one atate arranges terrorists missions in another state. or one state masterminds mid air explosion of in international air space as the US blamed libya few years earlier. the US also blame dafganistan for promoting terrorism by al qaeda and of causing siucide plane attacks on the world trade center the pentagon in 2001. india and pakistan have blamed each other of goverment sponsored terrorists attacks and have been close to fighting a war. the united nations has taken note of international crime that thretens the foundations of all states. terrorism has become one of the most dangerous forms of international crime. on the other hand members of irish liberation movement against the united kingdom, the kashmir libration movement against india, the palestine libration movement and israel and the cheechan libration movement against russia claim that they have attacked opposite goverment force and their supporters to win freedom. it is agreed that terrorism means attacks on ordinary citizens or common people and their properties whereever they maybe and fight for libreation means armed struggle against cruel rulers to regain lost territories or religious , economic and other freedoms. JIHAD means the exertion of efforts for the cause of ALLAH. true jihad must begin in the heart of every individual against the evil of his or her own soul. this is the greater jihad without which the jihad of the sword, the lesser jihad becomes simply warfare. society is nothing but a conglomeration of individuals, and the reform of society on islamic or ideal lines is necessary before any jihad is waged to obey the main quranic injuctions (1) kill them until there is no persecution.(2)fight against those who stop others from following the way of ALLAH.(3)fight against those who treat helpless men and women and children cruelly.(4) fight against those who fight against you and turn them out of the places taken forcibly from you. the holy prophet once adviced muslims strongly that they they should carefully measure the strenghth of the enemy and make the best preparations before attacking him. unluckily, the different muslim societies and jihadi organizations did not take the requisite steps neccessary for the supermacy of truth, justice and fair play in the jihadi struggle against evil, injustice and cruelty. firstly in the present day world context, they did not initiate movements to remove and replace the dictatorial and monarchical goverments in the richest and largest muslim countries in the middle east. the common people in these countries have not been properly educated nor have they been given thier due share in the govermants. the defence of these countries are weak and dependant on the very western powers that are responsible for the creation of israel. science and technology are in the wrong order ,and education , on the whole is out of tune with modern requirements. the prime aim, for example of the al qaeda organization should have been the reform of the arab regimes and societies. this could have thrown up people friendly govermants and would have contributed to the rising of joint arab armed forces capable of throwing out israel from the palestine borders. secondly, the jihadi organizations and their supporters for example in pakistan did not set in motion movemnts against corruption illiteracy, teh current feudal system and gavermantal and administrative inefficiency in different forms. clearly, the common people could risen to great heights if these organizations ,together with them and their leaders, had started jihad against political social and economic evils in the country. our industry and agriculture could have been in excellent shape. our science technology and general education could have been in the finest order. our armed forces could have depended on a solid economic base for a long and decisive war against the enemy. true freedom and democracy, with an educated people and rising economy would ahve been possible. then the armed jihad after the social jihad is more practical and more in accordance with the advise of the holy prophet. ijtihad means making the greatest effort to discover fresh truths. ijtihad and jihad mean supreme (effort). ijtihad is the application of reason to the holy quran and sunnah to to determine solutions of the problems of the changing times. in no case sholud jihad appear to have methods and sim of terrorism.jihadis should be able to figure out individual and social evils inside the country, and then they should attack the enemies inside the country and outside within the light of QURAN, and sunnah.
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