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'''Jihad''' (جهاد, "struggle" or "exertion") denotes the exertion of one's utmost effort in the path of God. Classical doctrine distinguishes:
'''Jihad''' (جهاد, "struggle") — the revolutionary concept par excellence, long before "revolution" existed.
* '''Jihad of the heart/soul''': the inner struggle against sin and ego (the "greater jihad," per the hadith often cited from the Prophet's return from the Battle of Badr).
* '''Jihad of the tongue/pen'': preaching, teaching, and truthful witness.
* '''Jihad of the sword''': armed struggle, regulated by classical conditions — declared by legitimate authority, offering peace first, non-combatant immunity, proportionality.


== Political theology ==
The greater jihad: inner struggle against one's own corruption — precondition of any political struggle. The lesser jihad: collective defense in the path of God — sanctioned, bounded, communal ("fight those who fight you"), subordinated to law: noncombatant immunity, treaties, proportionality.
Modern polemics reduce jihad to terrorism; orientalists historicize it away. Both miss its function as a concept of '''just struggle''' against oppression — Qur'an 22:39-40 permits fighting precisely for the defense of the persecuted and of houses of worship of all religions.


Haz Al-Din has argued that revolutionary struggle against imperialism can be understood as jihad in this emancipatory sense — the alignment of Islamic resistance movements (Hezbollah, Ansar Allah, Hamas) with the global anti-imperialist front being the contemporary proof (see [[Communism is Islam]]).
In Infrared usage, jihad supplies the '''grammar of struggle''' secular revolutionaries borrowed unknowingly: fusion of inner transformation and outer combat, the party as order-of-strugglers, death in the cause as witness rather than loss. Haz's Iran discussions frame the axis as jihad in precisely this classical sense — popular sovereignty defended by faith and arms against empire ([[Sharia]], [[Communism is Islam]], [[Allah, Cosmos, Xi Jinping]]).


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Tawhid]]
* [[Tawhid]]
* [[Sharia]]


== References ==
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 10:57, 21 August 2026

Jihad (جهاد, "struggle") — the revolutionary concept par excellence, long before "revolution" existed.

The greater jihad: inner struggle against one's own corruption — precondition of any political struggle. The lesser jihad: collective defense in the path of God — sanctioned, bounded, communal ("fight those who fight you"), subordinated to law: noncombatant immunity, treaties, proportionality.

In Infrared usage, jihad supplies the grammar of struggle secular revolutionaries borrowed unknowingly: fusion of inner transformation and outer combat, the party as order-of-strugglers, death in the cause as witness rather than loss. Haz's Iran discussions frame the axis as jihad in precisely this classical sense — popular sovereignty defended by faith and arms against empire (Sharia, Communism is Islam, Allah, Cosmos, Xi Jinping).

See also

References

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