Issues of Ijtihad

What is Peace? benefits others. And if you cannot benefit others, then at least become harmless as far as they are concerned. He taught us not to consider anyone as our enemy. From him we learnt that if we behave in a good way with our opponents, we will realize that there is a potential friend hidden deep within every person we think of as our foe. Jihad, A Peaceful Activity Mulla Ali Qari was a famous Islamic scholar and jurisprudent. He was born in Herat, which is now in Afghanistan, and died in Makkah in 1606. He was the author of a number of books on various Islamic subjects. One of these books is Mirqat ul-Masabih, which is a commentary on a Hadith collection. In the chapter on jihad in this book, Mulla Ali Qari writes that the word ‘jihad’ literally denotes struggle and effort. He then goes on to add that at a later time, which is to say after the Prophet’s demise, ‘jihad’ began being used to refer to war against the disbelievers. (Mulla Ali al Qari, Mirqat al-Mafatih sharh Mishkat, Vol. 6, p. 2452) Every word has both a literal as well as a conventional meaning, one that relates to how the word is normally used and understood. This is the case with the word ‘jihad’, too. The word ‘jihad’ comes from the root juhd or jahd. The literal connotation of this is exertion with much effort. The word ‘jihad’ is conventionally used for various sorts of