Jihad in the Quran

Hudaybiyyah peace treaty. The treaty was signed between Prophet Muhammad and the Quraysh of Makkah in the year 628 CE. Along with fourteen hundred companions, the Prophet was journeying to Makkah from Madinah to perform the Umrah or the minor pilgrimage. However, when they reached a place called Hudaybiyyah, ten miles from Makkah, the leaders of the Quraysh stopped the Prophet from going forward. To resolve the deadlock, the Prophet entered into negotiations with the Quraysh and unilaterally accepted their conditions. It resulted in a ten-year no-war pact known as the Hudaybiyyah Treaty. Two years after the treaty, when the Prophet and his companions were peacefully marching towards Makkah, a Muslim remarked, “This day is the day of the war”, but the Prophet replied: “This day is the day of mercy.” (Maghazi al-Waqidi, Vol. 2, p. 821-822) In the fourth verse, the word jihad appears in this way: “Strive for the cause of God as it behoves you to strive for it.” (22:78) In this verse, jihad means the jihad of dawah, as is clear from the context in which it appears. From the verse cited above, we can understand that the word ‘jihad’ in each of the four times appears in