For example, one finds in the Quran mention of “jihad by means of the Quran”, meaning invitation to the truth, evidence, clarification and presenting the best argument. Indeed, the concept of jihad is one of life, and it is vast, not limited only to armed conflict. This struggle is spiritual, social, economic and political. Jihad is a struggle to do good and to remove injustice, oppression and evil from oneself and from society. It is incorrect to imagine that jihad is synonymous only with fighting or war, for this is but one particular aspect of the term. The Arabic word “Jihad”, which is most always mistranslated as “holy war”, simply means “to struggle” or “to exert one’s utmost effort”. While Islam is generally misunderstood in the West, perhaps no other Islamic term evokes such strong reactions as “jihad”.
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