The Religion of Peace

The Religion of Peace to say, efforts to find God, to acquire intuitive knowledge of Him and to seek closeness to Him. Obviously, this jihad has nothing to do with qital or confrontation. 2. The Quran says: [The believers…] strive hard with their wealth (49:15) According to this verse, to spend of one’s wealth in God’s path is also an act of Jihad. 3. The Quran says: […] strive with the utmost strenuousness by means of this [the Quran, to convey its message to them]. (25:52) This verse tells us to spread the teachings of the Quran through peaceful efforts. 4. According to a hadith contained in the collection by atTirmidhi, the Prophet declared that a mujahid is one who, in obedience to God, engages in jihad against his nafs, or lower self. From this we learn that struggling against the promptings of the lower self and remaining firmly established on the path of Truth is a jihad. Obviously, such a jihad is an inner struggle, fought in the depths of one’s psyche, and not a war against an external foe fought on a physical battlefield. 5. According to a hadith in the collection by Ibn Majah, the Prophet said that Haj is jihad. From this we learn that Haj is an act of jihad. If one engages in Haj in the appropriate way desired by God, it entails great struggle. 6. According to a hadith in the Sahih al-Bukhari, the Prophet is said to have advised: