Jihad vs Mujahideen - What's the difference?
jihad | mujahideen |
As nouns the difference between jihad and mujahideen is that jihad is a holy war undertaken by muslims while mujahideen is (islam) muslim holy warriors engaged in a jihad. As a verb jihad is to participate in a jihad.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
jihad Alternative forms
* jehad
Noun
( en noun)
( "jihad on Wikiquote")
A holy war undertaken by Muslims.
* 1938 , "Holy War", Time , 22 Aug 1938:
- 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 .
* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 26:
- 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.
* 2013 , Mona Mahmood & Ian Black, The Guardian , 8 May 2013:
- The Jabhat al-Nusra media, with songs about jihad and martyrdom, is extremely influential.
An aggressive campaign for an idea.
a personal spiritual struggle for self-improvement and against evil
( -)
Verb
(jihad)
To participate in a jihad
See also
* Crusade
* holy war
* infidel
Anagrams
*
----
|
mujahideen Alternative forms
* mujahedeen, mujahadeen, mujaheddin, mujahidin
Noun
(head)
(Islam) Muslim holy warriors engaged in a jihad.
|
|
