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'''Jihad''' (جهاد, "struggle/striving") — in Infrared's reading, the revolutionary concept par excellence, long before the word "revolution" existed.
'''Jihad''' (جهاد, "struggle") — the revolutionary concept par excellence, long before "revolution" existed.


== The concept ==
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.
* The greater jihad: the inner struggle against one's own corruption — the precondition of any political struggle.
* The lesser jihad: collective defense and struggle in the path of God — sanctioned, bounded, communal. Not "holy war" in the crusader sense but the obligation of the community to resist oppression ("fight those who fight you").
* Classical doctrine subordinates war to law: noncombatant immunity, treaties, proportionality — order even in struggle.


== Infrared's usage ==
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]]).
Jihad supplies the '''grammar of struggle''' that secular revolutionaries borrowed without knowing: the fusion of inner transformation and outer combat, the party as order-of-strugglers, death in the cause as witness rather than loss. The [[Allah, Cosmos, Xi Jinping]] anthem's imagery ("the blade is swift and horses tread") draws on this register; Haz's discussions of Iran's resistance frame the axis as jihad in precisely this classical sense — popular sovereignty defended by faith and arms against the empire ([[Sharia]], [[Communism is Islam]]).


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



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