WHAT IS JIHAAD?
The word Jihaad means “Struggle”, or to be specific, sriving in the cause of God. Any struggle done in day-to-day life to please God is considered Jihaad. One of the highest levels of Jihaad is to stand up to a tyrant and speak a word of truth. Control of the self from wrong doings is the greatest Jihaad. One of the forms of Jihaad is to take arms in defense of Islam or a Muslim country when Islam is attacked. This kind of Jihaad has to be declared byt the religious leadership or by a Muslim head of state who is following Quraan and Sunnah. Go to Table of Contents DOES ISLAM PROMOTE POLYGAMY? For Muslim men to have more than one wife is a permission which is given to them in the Quraan provided it is not done to satisfy lust but to meet social solutions and needs. This permission is given provided the person is capable of treating the wives equally. It is not an injunction. In the pre-Islamic period, men used to have many wives. One person had 11 wives and when he became Muslim, he ask
