Jehad vs Jihad - What's the difference?
jehad | jihad | Alternative forms |
A holy war undertaken by Muslims.
* 1938 , "Holy War", Time , 22 Aug 1938:
* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 26:
* 2013 , Mona Mahmood & Ian Black, The Guardian , 8 May 2013:
An aggressive campaign for an idea.
a personal spiritual struggle for self-improvement and against evil
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To participate in a jihad
Jihad is a alternative form of jehad.
As nouns the difference between jehad and jihad
is that jehad is an alternative spelling of jihad while jihad is {{cx|Islam|lang=en}} A holy war undertaken by Muslims.As a verb jihad is
to participate in a jihad.jihad
English
(wikipedia jihad)Alternative forms
* jehadNoun
(en noun) ("jihad on Wikiquote")- Young Iraqis of both sects obeyed the imams' ruling last week by rushing to conscription offices in hot, dirty, dusty Bagdad to offer themselves or their money for the jihad .
- Small groups of killers, the scent of blood in their nostrils, now fanned out by taxi, bicycle or even on horseback into the surrounding countryside, spreading the word that a general jihad , or ‘holy war’, had broken out.
- The Jabhat al-Nusra media, with songs about jihad and martyrdom, is extremely influential.
