Masjid
Masjid Mujahideen.
Interesting name for a mosque:
mu·ja·hid
(mo͞o-jä′hĭd′)
n. pl. mu·ja·hi·deen or mu·ja·hi·din (mo͞o-jä′hĕ-dēn′)
One engaged in a jihad, especially as a guerrilla warrior.
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Interesting name for a mosque:
mu·ja·hid
(mo͞o-jä′hĭd′)
n. pl. mu·ja·hi·deen or
mu·ja·hi·din (mo͞o-jä′hĕ-dēn′)
One engaged in a jihad, especially as a guerrilla warrior.
masjid
Jihad (English pronunciation: /dʒɪˈhɑːd/; Arabic: جهاد jihād[dʒiˈhæːd]) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to maintain the religion. In Arabic, the word jihād is a noun meaning the act of "striving, applying oneself, struggling, persevering".[1] A person engaged in jihad is called a mujahid, the plural of which is mujahideen (مجاهدين).
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Muslims
[6] and scholars do not all agree on its definition. Many observers—both Muslim
[7] and non-Muslim
[8]—as well as the
Dictionary of Islam,
[3] talk of jihad having two meanings: an inner spiritual struggle (the "greater jihad"), and an outer physical struggle against the enemies of Islam (the "lesser jihad")
[3][9] which may take a violent or non-violent form.
[1][10] Jihad is often translated as "Holy War",
[11][12][13] although this term is controversial.
[14][15] According to orientalist Bernard Lewis, "the overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists", and specialists in the hadith "
understood the obligation of jihad in a military sense."
[16] Javed Ahmad Ghamidi states that there is consensus among Islamic scholars that the concept of jihad will always include armed struggle against wrong doers.
[17]
Jihad, routinely translated as "holy war," often makes headlines. For example, Yasir Arafat's May 1994 call in Johannesburg for a "jihad to liberate Jerusalem"1 was a turning point in the peace process; Israelis heard him speak about using violence to gain political ends and questioned his peaceable intentions. Both Arafat himself and his aides then clarified that he was speaking about a "peaceful jihad" for Jerusalem.
This incident points to the problem with the word jihad: what exactly does it mean? Two examples from leading American Muslim organizations, both fundamentalist, show the extent of disagreement this issue inspires. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based group, flatly states that jihad "does not mean 'holy war.'" Rather, it refers to "a central and broad Islamic concept that includes the struggle to improve the quality of life in society, struggle in the battlefield for self-defense . . . or fighting against tyranny or oppression." CAIR even asserts that Islam knows no such concept as "holy war."4 In abrupt contrast, the Muslim Students Association recently distributed an item with a Kashmir dateline, "Diary of a Mujahid." in which jihad clearly means warfare.
What Does Jihad Mean?
. Peace.
