The Concept of Jihad in Islam

said, without any fear of exaggeration, that today, violent methods have not only become difficult but that they are also utterly useless in practical terms. In contrast, peaceful methods are far easier to adopt and very effective. No longer is the peaceful method a question of choosing between two possible options—peaceful versus violent. Instead, the peaceful method is now the only practically possible and result-oriented option. Thus, it is correct to say that violent methods must now be abandoned in practice. In the language of the Shariah, they should be regarded as mansukh or abrogated. The followers of Islam are now left, at the practical level, with only one method to adopt—and that, without any doubt whatsoever, is the peaceful method, unless such changes take place in prevailing conditions that once again change the rules that apply in this regard. In the past, violent methods were used occasionally, but these were only a choice compelled by the age conditions in which the Prophet lived. However, since no longer does any such compulsion exist due to changes in the age, the choice of violent methods must now be considered unnecessary and not in consonance with the Prophet’s Sunnah. In the