By al-Din on February 28, 2010 7:52 PM
fun_jonny68
Am glad that you brought up the topic on jihad. I must say that I did a poor job to explain about jihad. It is about doing good at all scale, from the minuscule to gigantum to oneself, immediate and distant family members, neighbours, communities, all mankind whether Muslims or non-Muslims. In fact I wrote somewhere in this blog:
"In Islam we have to do jihad in every form in our everyday lives be it with Muslims or non-Muslims, plant or animal life, the environment and in fact on planet Earth as a whole.
The sweetest jihad is maytyrdom, a promise to heaven. That is why you hear suicide bombers for they have no other choice to defend their homeland and families."
If I've done some clarification to your understanding that's also jihad albeit very minor for it is about spreading knowledge and better understanding of the religion of Islam. So jihad is not about killing people as the West have mislabeled it to confuse people especially the non-Muslims. Their killing fields are everywhere - Iraq, Palestine, Vietnam, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan ...
As for the brotherhood in Islam I could be very well be in Kunming, China now and I could knock on the doors of Muslim brothers's houses. When I say "Salam mualaikum" they will provide me the utmost hospitality without fear. You know those people there were Muslims very much earlier than in Malaysia. They were herders, traders, travellers, and providers of sanctuary along the famous Silk Route.
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