Strive or Struggle (JIHAD

Strive or Struggle (Jihad) through these very forms—no other structure has been prescribed by God. But beyond these outward expressions, the real thing that God seeks from people—the quality that makes a person worthy of His mercy—is an inner state of the heart in which a person’s thoughts and feelings are fully aligned with God’s will. They come to love what God loves and to dislike what God dislikes. They oppose whatever goes against God’s will, and for whatever is dear to God, they are ready to sacrifice even their last possession. These are the demands of Islam, and our eternal future depends on whether we fulfill them or fail to do so. A person who has come to know this reality that there is one God of this world, and who has also believed in the fact that a great Day of Judgment in the Hereafter is surely going to come, when the entire human race is made to stand in the court of God, his desire can be nothing other than that on that terrifying Day of