Mahommed Ahmad (the Sudanese mahdi) proclaimed a jihad in 1882.
In the belief of Moslems every one of their number slain in a jihad is taken straight to paradise.
Through its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security, the regime in Tehran plans terrorist operations and supports groups such as Lebanese Hizballah, Hamas, and Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
The terrorists distort the idea of jihad into a call for violence and murder against those they regard as apostates or unbelievers, including all those who disagree with them.
There will be a jihad when she is ready, such an one as never yet was!
The next you shall hear of your Captain King of the Khyber Rifles he will be leading a jihad into India.
They will stand aside now and watch a greater jihad than the world has ever seen!
A jihadwas decided on in Germany's good time; and when that time should come ten rifles in the 'Hills' and a thousand cartridges would mean not only a hundred dead Englishmen, but ten times that number busily engaged.
If his temper was the temper of the "Hills," it was easy to read disappointment for a jihad that should have been already but had been postponed.
A man told me last night," said King, drawing on imagination without any compunction at all, "that the fight in the Khyber was because a jihad is launched aleady.
The jihad he preached would have tempted dead men from their graves to come and share the plunder, and the curses he called down on cowards and laggards and unbelievers were enough to have frightened the dead away again.
A jihadwhen the right hour comes will raise the tribes," the mullah growled.
The next you shall hear of your Captain King of the Khyber Rifles, he will be leading a jihad into India.
Who is a man who talks of a jihad that is to be, that he should have gold coin given him by unbelievers?
The thousands were too busy working up a frenzy for the great jihadthat was to come.
Jihad was only incumbent on the Companions of the Prophet, and was not binding on any one else after them.
Moslim's collection of genuine traditions Kitab-ul Jihad vas-Siyar, chapter on Tanfeel and Ransom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jihad" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
