This is why you see that from 12 Imams you find out the first Imam establishes
justice. His jihad is a jihad of patience and silence
The second Imams jihad is what? diplomacy, in the way that he deals with Muawiyah
The third Imams jihad is that he sacrifices his life. But you find from
the fourth Imam is the revival and the preservation of the message of Sayyadus
Shuhada (Imam Hussain) From the fifth Imam to the ninth Imam you find an intellectual jihad that
is what true jihad is here in this context. the jihad of the intellect
the revival of the intellectual sciences from the fifth Imam to the ninth Imam you
have an intellectual jihad essentially when the western world thinks of
Jihad, it thinks of fighting, Know when we teach our children what jihad is jihad
is what? Jihad is a struggle and the struggle starts within yourself the
minor jihad is fighting, You see that's not our jihad
our jihad is the intellectual jihad our jihad is the jihad of selflessness our
jihad is helping that old woman cross the road. and our jihad is to help that
person who has wronged us, our jihad is what when a person slaps us in the face
to swallow that pride and to swallow that arrogance that tomorrow and that
person comes to us well you help them. So really what is the concept of jihad in
the mind of a Shia Muslim in the Shia Muslim is to revive the humanity and to
help all forms of society. That is jihad. When we talk about, when people in fact
we don't talk about this. When people talk about jihad of the sword and of the
knife and the gun, that's not your Jihad. Know that our Fuqaha (religios scholars) have said you are
not even allowed to fight an offensive jihad. As what a fuqaha say, you can't
attack someone. You can only defend yourself and as you know within our
human rights human beings have the ability to defend themselves within
proportion you've been given that ability by Islam
the West gives you that ability as well to defend yourself but we as Muslims we
are not allowed to fight an offensive war. This is why you find that we are
different from them, their religion is different. When I talk about them I talk
about our brothers right. Their religion is different our
religion is different our religion is based upon compassion, our religion is
based upon Sayyadus Shuhada (Imam Hussain). When Sayyadus Shuhada comes to Karbala he doesn't
start fighting. First he says to Abul Fazl
Abbas, he says go and ask them let's have dialogue. Let's solve these problems. What
do they want? They want me to be exiled? They want me to be exiled in a tradition it
says he says, I'll go to hind (India). I'll go to India but I don't want war. I don't want to
fight. I haven't come in to fight I've come in to guide people. I'm an imam you
know what an imam is? I guide towards people. He's here to help people. He says
I take him towards the perfection. That is what Islam is about. So today the
problem is this, that in the 21st century we haven't marketed Islam properly.
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