No, it is not one of the five pillars of Islam.Refer to question below for more information on the five pillars of Islam and on Jihad.
Jihad is not one of the five pillars of Islam. The five pillars are Shahada (faith declaration), Salat (prayer), Zakat (charity), Sawm (fasting), and Hajj (pilgrimage). Jihad, which means striving or struggling, is an important concept in Islam but is not one of the pillars.
Jihad does not mean'holy war'. Jihad means 'struggle, striving'. Any action done in the way of Almighty Allah, by mouth (preaching Islam), spending money, or by physical means is Jihad in Islam. The greatest Jihad is fighting against one's own evil passions, being honest and just in daily routine matters is Jihad. Anyhow, if some force unjustly attacks Islam and tries to uproot it, the Muslim states must wage Jihad till peace is resored. It will be a holy war. Declaring Jihad in this situation is the responsibility of Muslim States. No individual or a group of Muslims is authorised to declare Jihad. These are the insane and mad people who kill innocent people in the name of Islam. They have nothing to do with Islam. Islam means 'peace', not war or killing. According to Islam, Killing of one innocent human is like killing the whole humans.
Simply put, Jihad exists in Islam because the Qur'an demands it. However, it should be noted that there are two forms of jihad. One is an internal struggle to be true and faithful to Islam amidst all of the struggles and difficulties that the world presents. The second is the command to rise militarily in defense of Islam when Muslims are under attack, especially from non-Muslims. This second form of jihad is popularly considered the "holy war" type of jihad.
Jihad does not mean'holy war'. Jihad means 'struggle, striving'. Any action done in the way of Almighty Allah, by mouth (preaching Islam), spending money, or by physical means is Jihad in Islam. The greatest Jihad is fighting against one's own evil passions, being honest and just in daily routine matters is Jihad. Anyhow, if some force unjustly attacks Islam and tries to uproot it, the Muslim states must wage Jihad till peace is resored. It will be a holy war. Declaring Jihad in this situation is the responsibility of Muslim States. No individual or a group of Muslims is authorised to declare Jihad. These are the insane and mad people who kill innocent people in the name of Islam. They have nothing to do with Islam. Islam means 'peace', not war or killing.
One cannot buy a Jihad watch it is not a time piece. Jihad watch is a website that is run by Robert Spencer that covers all things Islam and teaching the world that not all Islamic people think like a Jihad.
if no one want to kill Muslims Islam will remain the religion of peace. Islam does not start war. but Islam has Jihad for defend against who want to kill Muslims.
It is one of the wings of Jihad that is called "minor Jihad", Refer to question below for more information.
For women, hajj or umrah is considered as jihad, according to a hadith that was narrated by A'isha:O Messenger of Allaah, do women have to engage in jihad? He said: "Jihad in which there is no fighting: Hajj and 'Umrah.
Jihad, as described in the Quran, refers to a struggle or effort to strive towards self-improvement, to defend one's faith, or to promote justice and peace. It can be both an internal spiritual struggle (greater jihad) and a physical defense of Islam in the face of aggression (lesser jihad). Terrorism, on the other hand, involves the deliberate targeting of innocent civilians, causing fear and harm, which is explicitly condemned in Islam. Jihad promotes peace, while terrorism goes against the principles of Islam by causing harm to innocent people.
No, it is not. The Arabic word jihad means to struggle. Various narrations from the Prophet Muhammad emphasize that a war is the lesser jihad, the greater one being the struggle against the temptations that we face in our lives. Refer to question below for more details on Islam.
Every concept, or word for a concept, has two meanings: what the user wishes it to mean and what it means to the listener, based on his or her experience. Jihad means "struggle" and some wish to use it to mean "interior effort to reach self-perfection" kind of struggle. Many people however heard it to mean "holy war" based on the number of Muslims who have committed atrocities while claiming they were on jihad (the Arabic word for "jihad-ers" is "mujahideen"). Some Muslims wish "jihad" to mean the latter (i.e., killing people). Others think Western interpretation of this sort is unfair to them. It's something of a problem to say which version is "correct" without being able to read the speaker's mind. A perfectly analogous situation surrounds the word "crusade": to a Westerner, "crusade" means a dedicated effort to correct something, as in "Crusade against Illiteracy" or "Crusade for Clean Water." To Muslims, however, the term only means "military action against Muslims."
Jihad has many kind. It means struggle in the way of Almighty Allah. It may be done by preaching the message of Almighty Allah. It may be done by spending money in the way of Islam. Helping the needy and srving the poor. It may be done to strive to establish peace in society. May be sacrificing one's life for the cause of Islam.