Strive or Struggle (JIHAD

Strive or Struggle (JIHAD) N ow, let us understand jihad. Jihad means to exert one’s utmost effort for a cause, to strive so hard that a person becomes exhausted. Like migration, this jihad is not the name of a temporary action but a process that relates to one’s entire life. Jihad is not limited to the battlefield. In a believer’s life, jihad begins as soon as one accepts faith and continues until the very end of life. In a society where truth is suppressed, the struggle for truth becomes an ongoing form of jihad in a believer’s life. This effort and inner striving continue within the believer at all times—expressed as patience and hope in times of hardship, and as gratitude and humility in