{"id":15196,"date":"2025-05-29T01:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/?p=15196"},"modified":"2025-05-29T01:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:13:45","slug":"what-does-jihad-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/what-does-jihad-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does jihad mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"radix-:r1q:\" class=\"overflow-hidden text-sm data-[state=closed]:animate-accordion-up data-[state=open]:animate-accordion-down\" role=\"region\" data-state=\"open\" aria-labelledby=\"radix-:r1p:\" data-orientation=\"vertical\">\n<div class=\"pb-4 pt-0 prose prose-sm prose-a:font-semibold prose-a:underline prose-a:decoration-carrot-500\">\n<p><em>Jihad<\/em>\u00a0<strong>is a broad Arabic term that, at its core, means to expend one\u2019s efforts in a good cause despite the adversity involved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Islam\u2019s scriptures use the term <em>jihad<\/em> in a variety of contexts. The Qur\u2019an refers to the <em>jihad<\/em> of preaching an unpopular truth (25:52), the <em>jihad<\/em> of pursuing guidance despite obstacles (29:69), and the <em>jihad<\/em> of resisting the persecution of oneself (2:190) and others (4:75). The Prophet Muhammad \ufdfa also used the term <em>jihad<\/em> in the context of speaking truth to power, seeking knowledge, selflessly serving one\u2019s parents, and battling the evil within one\u2019s soul.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jihad\u00a0is a broad Arabic term that, at its core, means to expend one\u2019s efforts in a good cause<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15197,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions\/15197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}