The word al-Jihad means holy war! That is what it means

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Dec 20, 2014 at 14:58

Hi Francois

It seems that those in charge of la regie de la langue francaise are not aware that there is only one hadith that is being quoted that is supposed to tell us that the real jihad is the greater jihad but the problem with the hadith it is unreliable and more likely than not it was made up by the Ulama that had no guts for fighting and wanted to stay behind eating, looting enslaving and enjoying slave girls and the good life

And here is the hadith in Arabic and it is available in al-Bayhaqi's book called Kitab al-Zuhd and it is called in Arabic الجهاد الكبير والجهاد الصغير or the hadith of the great jihad and the small jihad

قال البيهقي في كتاب الزهد ص 165 رقم 373:
أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ عَبْدَانَ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا تَمْتَامٌ، حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَعْلَى، عَنْ لَيْثٍ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَدِمَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَوْمٌ غُزَاةٌ، فَقَالَ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ §" قَدِمْتُمْ خَيْرَ مَقْدَمٍ مِنَ الْجِهَادِ الْأَصْغَرِ إِلَى الْجِهَادِ الْأَكْبَرِ. قَالُوا: وَمَا الْجِهَادُ الْأَكْبَرُ؟ قَالَ: مُجَاهَدَةُ الْعَبْدِ هَوَاهُ ". هَذَا إِسْنَادٌ ضَعِيفٌ

Now the problem with this hadith that it is regarded as: Hadha al-Isnad da3eef or the authorities that transmitted the hadith are unreliable in other words this is an unreliable hadith and here is a chat about it at Multaqa Ahl al-Hadith web site and you will find no better source that also tell us that this hadith is really weak or unreliable and it is from al-Sheikh al-Albani

http://www.ahlalhdeeth.com/vb/showthread.php?t=236906

The truth is the Arabic word الجهاد means holy war and that is it and here from no other than the very celebrated Ibn Manzur Arabic language dictionary

http://wiki.dorar-aliraq.net/lisan-alarab/%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%AF

And here is the meaning of the word in a modern Arabic language dictionary

1. جِهَادٌ :

   [ ج هـ د ]. ( مصدر جَاهَدَ ).
   1 . :- خَرَجَ الجُنُودُ لِلْجِهَادِ :-: لِلْقِتَالِ فيِ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ .

And it is: Jihad (J H D ) (Masdar Jahid) the exit (read this is going) of the soldiers for al-jihad IN-ORDER TO FIGHT IN THE CAUSE OF ALLAH

And here is the link

http://www.almaany.com/ar/dict/ar-ar/%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF/

This definition is based on what Ibn kathir called ayat al-Qital or the fighting verse and it is Q2:216

I think it is pure ignorance of the Arabic language when any one repeat this nonsense and again al-jihad means holy war and this is what the word means back then and now

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