al-Tabari's definition of "What is really al-Jihad?" In his own words

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), May 6, 2018 at 08:17

Dr Pipes

I'm sure you must be aware that Tafsir al-Tabari is the earliest extant and complete Quranic Tafsir. al-Tabari is really Allah's editor in-chief and his tafsir of the Qur'an is really fundamental in understanding what the Qur'an is really saying.

If we turn to Q2:218 it says:

وَالَّذِينَ هَاجَرُوا وَجَاهَدُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ

Or: And those that immigrated and Jahadu (see later) in the cause of Allah

Here is the 'Irab (grammar) of the above verse:

http://quran.ksu.edu.sa/tafseer/eerab/sura2-aya218.html

Now the word جَاهَدُوا or Jahadu is past tense masculine and plural and it means those (m) that performed Jihad

Here is what al-Tabari wrote about it:

وأما قوله: " وجاهدوا " فإنه يعني: وقاتلوا وحاربوا

Or: And is regard to His (Allah) saying: Jahadu this means: FIGHT AND DECLARE WAR!

Clearly al-Tabari is saying that al-Jihad is really about war and fighting and nothing about the bogus "inner struggle"

Politicians or members of the MSM or Mullah Linda Sarsour that pretend to know what Jihad in Islam really means (the bogus inner struggle) must know something that al-Tabari did not know!

For the readers: Jihad means holy war and that is what it means

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