If jihad is simply a spiritual struggle, then why is there an entire chapter of the Qur’an entitled “Booty” or “The Spoils of War” (al-Anfal). What spoils ensue from a spiritual struggle? If jihad is simply a spiritual struggle, how is a Muslim supposed to make Jews and Christians “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29) spiritually? If jihad is simply a spiritual struggle, why are there thousands upon thousands of Muslims worldwide who have joined violent jihad groups? Why are there any violent jihad groups at all? Why is this misunderstanding of jihad so widespread?
“‘Jihad’ Is Simply ‘Misunderstood’, Claims Muslim Scholar During Segment On Oprah Winfrey’s ‘Belief’ Series,” by Leah Marieann Klett, Gospel Herald, November 6, 2015:
Speaking during a segment on Oprah Winfrey’s controversial “Belief” series, an Islamic scholar claimed that jihad is one of the most misunderstood and misused concepts of the religion.
Varun Soni, the dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California, spoke about Islam in the introductory video for the “Belief” segment, which aired on OWN last week, according to the Christian Post.
While “jihad” is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty,” the scholar asserted that such an explanation of the word is actually far from accurate.
“One of the most misunderstood concepts of Islam is ‘jihad’, which many people interpret as ‘a holy war,'” Soni contended.
“But there is nothing holy about war,” he argued. “What ‘jihad’ actually represents is an internal struggle, the battle that is raging in our own heart. And all of our religious traditions talk about that internal struggle. In that respect, jihad is not just a Muslim idea but it’s a reality of the human condition.”
Oprah’s seven-part series explored religious and spiritual belief around the world, and was shot at 33 different locations worldwide, taking over three years to complete. Islam is the world’s second-largest religion, with 1.5 billion followers worldwide. The media giant reportedly reached out to 100 faith leaders from Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Sikhism for an advanced screening of the series before it premiered.
“Muslims see themselves as coming to god with great humility,” Soni said in explaining his religion. “For Muslims, submitting to god creates a radical sense of equality. The most sacred text for Muslims is the Quran, which most Muslims believe is the direct word of god, as revealed to the prophet Muhammad….

Gary says
“Muslims see themselves as coming to god with great humility,”
So why do they come to their fellow man with arrogance and a sword claiming to represent God?
Oh right….. They’re representing their father.
The father of all lies. Who comes to rob, steal, kill, and destroy.
“No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” (Jesus Circa 33 A.D.)
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
That’s a great quote, philosophy at its best. I take it there’s a reference for this in the New Testament.
Westman says
Luke 6:43-45, Mathew 7:16-20.
Karl says
What about Blackberries? They have thorns and yet they are one of the sweetest fruits.
gravenimage says
Are you just making a thuddingly literal horticultural observation–or are you implying that there is good to found in the sanguinary horror of Islam?
ballotcode says
The seeds of Mohamedism’s destructive nature are in its’ texts. Although I don’t see resolution of this played out only in the physical realm with mass conversions and a collapse of the ideology, there have been a number of Mohamedans that have turned away because of the irreconcilable disparity of good and evil. How can good fruit come from a bad tree? Many DO see this and conclude that that is not possible. Hope there. But, that will not be the end of it though, as the battle is not a natural realm battle.
She is obviously clueless, as she has neither eyes to see or ears to hear.
mortimer says
Muslims come to Allah as slaves. Christians come to Jehovah as his children.
Muslims come to ‘others’ as masters. Christians come to ‘others’ as servants.
Muslims treat ‘others’ harshly (K.48.29). Christians love ‘others’ as themselves (Math.7.12 – The Golden Rule).
Allah is the ‘best of deceivers’ (K.3.54). Jesus is the Way, the TRUTH and the Life. (John 14.6)
Jehovah is LIGHT (truth); in him there is no darkness (lying). 1 John 1:5
Islam is based on slavery and deception.
Saleem Smith says
Violent jihad is an unfortunate reality of the Islamic creed.
There is no escaping the inevitable violence of Islamic jihad as it is written in Islam’s canonical texts and Muslims are bound to obey these texts. Oprah is being fed a pack of Mohammedan lies.
We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that the 164 jihad verses in the Koran make jihad a central tenet of the Islamic creed and 75% of the Sira (biographies of Muhammad and quotes attributed to him) is about jihad.
The largest part of the Islamic texts (the Qur’an, hadith and sira) relate to the treatment of unbelievers, kafirs. Approximately 67% of the Qur’an written in Mecca is about the unbelievers, or politics. Of the Qur’an of Medina, 51% is devoted to the unbelievers.
Mohammed preached his religion for 13 years and garnered only 150 followers. But when he turned to politics and war, in 10 years time he became the first ruler of Arabia by averaging an event of violence every 7 weeks for 9 years. His success did not come as a religious leader, but as a political leader.
Statistical analysis of the Bukhari hadith (considered by Muslims to be the most authentic of the hadith collections) show that Muhammad repeatedly speaks of jihad. In Bukhari, 97% of the jihad references are about war, and 3% are about the inner struggle. So the statistical answer is that jihad is 97% war and 3% inner struggle.
There are 146 references to Hell in the Qur’an. Only 6% of those in Hell are there for moral failings ” murder, theft, etc. The other 94% of the reasons for being in Hell are for the intellectual sin of disagreeing with Mohammed, a political crime.
Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:
“One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…
The statement continues,
Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I’m starting to think that maybe Oprah just might be biased. For example, if Jihad is misunderstood, why did Allah talk in the Holy Ko-Ran about exemptions from duty for the elderly, handicapped and mentally infirm? Why did God Himself issue these orders if Jihad did not mean fighting physical wars in the name of Him, God? Why did Oprah not axe this question, did she get some bad work from her professional researchers, for certainly she has professional researchers to take on such a weighty subject as this. In fact, it may well be that Spencer himself did research for Oprah on this program’s content, and if he did, how can he possibly justify this to us, his impartial judges?
Jaladhi says
APF, as you know jihad is nothing but holy war and a license to kill and murder!! All these phony scholars are just muddying up the simple meaning of jihad by lying about it with spiritual struggle nonsense – my foot. There is nothing spiritual in Islam – its only murder, mayhem, rape and getting to paradise with 72 houries!!
Judi says
What do you expect from her? She endorsed Obummer for president in 2008. ‘Nuf said.
mortimer says
Alarmed Pig Farmer wrote: “why did Allah (make) exemptions from duty (of jihad) for the elderly, handicapped and mentally infirm (if ‘jihad’ means only ‘spiritual struggle’)” ???
Excellent point. The Koran explains in almost 10% of the Koran’s text how jihad ‘in the cause of Allah’ is an actual, military warfare.
The hadiths and canonical commentaries of Islam and the Sharia law manuals make clear that jihad is primarily aggressive warfare and military conquest.
Oprah is unacquainted with Islam’s source texts and authoritative rule books, but assumes she is knowledgeable about based on ‘guessing’. Not very intellectual.
gravenimage says
Alarmed Pig Farmer wrote:
For example, if Jihad is misunderstood, why did Allah talk in the Holy Ko-Ran about exemptions from duty for the elderly, handicapped and mentally infirm?
……………………………
Excellent point, APF. The elderly and handicapped–and even many of the mentally infirm–can engage in personal spiritual struggle. Christians and Jews do this all the time.
Of course Jihad primarily refers to bloody “holy” war.
mortimer says
APF wrote: “I’m starting to think that maybe Oprah just might be biased”
OPRAH is offering unchallenging FEEL-GOOD pop psychology and New Age religion.
Her religious philosophy is called RADICAL INDIFFERENTISM or RADICAL UNIVERSALISM…the idea that all religions are BASICALLY THE SAME and that only RADICAL UNIVERSALISM understands religion correctly…thus proving RADICAL UNIVERSALISM is different and self-refuting itself.
OPRAH’S idea that all religions are basically the same is self-refuting.
Peter says
Yes, it is a “spiritual struggle,” but for the subjugation, forced conversion, or extermination of non-Muslims and their “systems of belief,” and the (re)establishment of Islamic supremacism.
TheBuffster says
Part of the “spiritual struggle” is the struggle that takes place in the soul of the Muslim who doesn’t want to go to war for the sake of conquering unbelievers, but is told by the Koran that jihad is good for him even if he dislikes it. The Koran says some things that you like are bad for you. Some things that you dislike are good for you. It requires a struggle within to overcome these human weaknesses for the sake of pleasing Allah and reaching paradise in the end.
Bronson says
Exactly. Like most dissembling and obfuscating by Muslims engaging in taqiyya and kitman there is always an element of truth in what they say which enables them to say it with a straight face and rebut objections. So Islam is a religion, but it is also not a religion but an ideology and it is a religion of peace but it is also a religion of violence, i.e. peace for those who submit to Allah and eternal warfare against those who do not. So too with jihad being a spiritual struggle: it is the struggle to extinguish one’s conscience which that might hold one back from attacking the kuffar.
gravenimage says
Excellent points, Peter, Buffster, and Bronson.
Roger says
This is state sponsored propaganda.
Tune in next week folks as she explores the extremists within the Christian right, filmed in the deep south with scary music. And with exclusive interviews from the SPLC.
Angemon says
“Many people” as in “many muslims worldwide, as seen by the support islamic terror groups who base their actions on islamic texts get from the general muslim population, and the few non-muslims savvy enough to do their homework”.
Jaladhi says
For the record, Varun Soni is not a Muslim name. This guy is a Hindu whose ancestors were brutalized, looted, invaded, raped, murdered and converted to Islam in India by Islamic jihad which Muslims themselves call a holy war. Muslims killed more than 80 million Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, etc in India during last 1000 years and for this Soni guy to come out and say jihad is the most misunderstood term and it is internal struggle, blah, blah,bah, is so disgusting that it is beyond comprehension. Obviously he is born and educated in the US where such follies are taught!!
PRCS says
Uh, huh.
An inner personal struggle.
Should I stab the Jew or not?
Jaladhi says
Oh, that’s easy for a Muslim and allah has already made that decision for him!! LOL..
duh_swami says
I might like to try some of that inner spiritual struggle jihad myself. Where can I find instructions on how to do it?
gravenimage says
Certainly not in the Qur’an, Hadith, or Sira, Swami.
Walter Sieruk says
The claim that the “jihad ” is “misunderstood.” is not only a falsehood of a claim but an outright lie to hide as in to cover-up the reality the terrible truth about the violent and deadly nature of that religion. The say that ” the jihad is misunderstood because it’s really just peacefulstruggle” is an blatant strategy of Taqiyya which is the Muslim doctrine of Islamic deception for the advancement of Islam..In other words that false statement that the jihad of Islam is really being only a “spiritual struggle” is whats called “disinformation” or as some would say a “snow-job” or a lame attempt “whitewash to hide the ugly truth.”.
miriamrove says
Oprah is a PC D….bag. m
Mathew Solo says
Jaladhi…I liked Your comment about what happen in India
I do not know folks…can we just try to have a National Dialog Open and Frank…no…are there some Computer Wizards…who can just run those polling questions…collect the answers…send copies of the final consensus to our law makers…do we wait until it gets so frustrating that most people began to vote… in the U.S. about 60% of the voting eligible population votes during presidential election years…and about 40% votes during midterm elections…
a National Referendum maybe it…we can wait for the courts to decide if they accept the results…are there any honest…dependable… effective…organizers without family…friends…who have no natural fear of losing their life nor their freedom … does the country want to address this Aggressive Progressive Islam…The Whole Country is Stupefied…and in this techno environment…where folks just do not talk that well face to face…
Anybody Out There…are we riding this one out…got nothing to ad to this…me neither…
I think Oprah is coming on…try to look on the bright side…this can only get worse
Wellington says
I believe jihad denoting some kind of inner spiritual struggle is the meaning of this word something like 3% of the time in the Islamic texts while about 97% of the time in these same texts it means war against the infidel or Muslims deemed not Muslim enough. Thus, and assuming I’m correct here, anyone asserting that jihad means a kind of spiritual struggle and leaves it at only that is either manifesting their ignorance or their mendacity. Anyone care to add to this?
TheBuffster says
Wellington, here’s what Bill Warner has to say on the subject of jihad, statistically:
“Jihad must be one of the most famous Islamic concepts. It takes up a large portion of theTrilogy. Material for jihad is 24% of the Medinan Koran and 9% of the total of the entire Koran. Jihad takes up 21% of the Bukhari material and the Sira devotes 67% of its text to jihad(11).
“Statistics gives us a measure of the claim that the real jihad is inner struggle, the so-called“greater jihad”, whereas the jihad of the sword is the “lesser jihad”. The term “greater jihad” is not found in any of the canonical texts and Reuven Firestone (12) claims that it does not exist.
“However, we do find in the Hadith that some hadiths refer to some religious acts that are equal to jihad of the sword. These quasi-greater jihad hadiths total 2% of the Bukhari hadiths that relate to jihad. Of course, the other 98% of the hadiths devoted to jihad claim that jihad of the sword is the supreme act. The statistical answer to the true nature of jihad is that the “greater jihad” of inner struggle is 2% and the “lesser jihad” of the sword is 98%. In other words, jihad is overwhelmingly violent and a little inner struggle.
“Statistics also give us a measure of the importance of the jihad of pen and mouth. The Sira devotes 23% of its text to war poetry that is propaganda. This poetry, which is not the only example of how Mohammed used propaganda for his jihad, furnishes us with an insight into its importance. The Sira devotes roughly a quarter of its jihad text to the jihad of the pen and mouth, and three quarters of the text to jihad of the sword. The Sira makes no mention of the “greater jihad”, the inner struggle.”
Found here, under the heading “Case 7” on pages 8 and 9: http://cspipublishing.com/statistical/pdf/Statistical_Islam.pdf
Wellington says
Thanks for that, Buffster. And what a comfort it is to reflect upon the fact that on 9/11 those 19 Arab Muslim monsters were “only” engaging in “lesser jihad.” Oh yeah, what a comfort.
God, how I despise Islam. I have never despised anything more. This religion is sick to its very core, to its very being. By now, one is aware of this or should be aware of it. There is no third alternative here.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Buffster.
TheBuffster says
You’re welcome Wellington and Graven.
Mathew Solo says
I do not know folks…can we just try to have a National Dialog Open and Frank…no…are there some Computer Wizards…who can just run those polling questions…collect the answers…send copies of the final consensus to our law makers…do we wait until it gets so frustrating that most people began to vote… in the U.S. about 60% of the voting eligible population votes during presidential election years…and about 40% votes during midterm elections…
a National Referendum maybe it…we can wait for the courts to decide if they accept the results…are there any honest…dependable… effective…organizers without family…friends…who have no natural fear of losing their life nor their freedom … does the country want to address this Aggressive Progressive Islam…The Whole Country is Stupefied…and in this techno environment…where folks just do not talk that well face to face…
Anybody Out There…are we riding this one out…got nothing to ad to this…me neither…
I think Oprah is coming on…try to look on the bright side…this can only get worse
Dan says
It doesn’t matter if it’s 1% of the Muslims who misunderstand Jihad, or 100%.
Whatever the percentage, It’s a moot point because that “percentage” is responsible for over 90% of the terrorist activity.
Shoot what ever percentage is causing the problem, and 90% of ours will be solved.
mortimer says
Dan wrote: “It doesn’t matter if it’s 1% of the Muslims who misunderstand Jihad”
In fact, 10% of Muslims are in study groups that learn about the Koran and the jihad doctrine. 15% of Muslims say they support jihad groups.
65% of Muslims want Sharia and a caliphate…just what ISIS is offering.
35% of Muslims appear to be non-practicing or lapsed. They haven’t much concern about Islam except as a cultural identity…not as a living faith. However, the 35% of non-practicing can be mobilized at any time.
dajjal says
MINO status is dynamic, not static. The MINO can get religion and become a Believer, this sudden jihad syndrome.
JawsV says
Jihad is Islamic holy war against the infidel. When I first saw this “Belief” series of Oprah’s advertised I knew that Islam would be whitewashed. So predictable.
epistemology says
“But there is nothing holy about war,” he argued. “What ‘jihad’ actually represents is an internal struggle, the battle that is raging in our own heart. And all of our religious traditions talk about that internal struggle. In that respect, jihad is not just a Muslim idea but it’s a reality of the human condition.”
We’ve seen that reality of the human condition on 9/11, the Madrid bombings, the killings of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, the outrage about the Motoons in Denmark, they tried to kill Kurt Westergaard, the London suicide bombings, the Boston bombings, the killings of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and the shootings in Texas about the cartoon contest. I’m pretty sure I forgot something.
But please keep in mind that’s all about the internal struggle.
Wellington says
Indeed, epistemology, we shouldn’t lose sight of the internal struggle meaning of jihad lest we be called, God forbid, “Islamophobes.”
Again truth demonstrates that it is stranger than fiction. One would be hard pressed in believable fictional form to make up the rot which is Islam. I mean who could actually accept, by way of a novel, that a psychopathic and narcissistic pedophile, who was brutal to the core of his being, could actually establish a major religion which millions upon untold millions through the centuries observed, adhered to, and paid respect to?
But, in real life, this is what has occurred. Shame on “real life” I say. And everlasting shame on all those, Muslims or dhimmis, who legitimize, who sanctify, who lend any kind of credibility, to the spiritual fascism which goes by the name of “Islam.”
Hope you are doing well, my friend, in an increasingly bizarre world. Long live freedom. Long live Israel.
Down with Islam. And down with apologists for this heinous belief system——Merkel, Cameron, Obama, May, Kerry and Trudeau being just a few of the “culprits” here. Ah yes, they are culprits indeed and I have nothing but contempt for them all. No cherisher of liberty ever should. I’m certain what Churchill would have thought of “this bunch.” The Great Man’s contempt for them would have been without reservation. He would not have spared any of them, nor should he have.
epistemology says
Thanks a lot dear Wellington, I wish I could express myself as perfectly as you. The point is you can say about the muzzies whatever you you want. You can expose their morals and values, their addiction to violence and their totally wrong conception about sex. But they’re number one in PR. They sell their crap all over the Western world, always play the victim card and win. It’s crazy for somebody who studied the Nazis it’s plain to see that the ideology is the same. But our apologists don’t want to acknowledge it. Watch a German chat show and there is nobody who tells the truth about the religion of peace(TM) they all beat about the bush. Nobody is ever invited who tells the truth these people might disturb community relations as they say in Britain.
Merkel is a stupid cunt, please excuse me, but she pisses me off. I wish Geert Wilders had a say all over Europe
Wellington says
I wish, epistemology, that You had a say all over Europe. What strange times we live in and so take good care, my friend. I like to think we will meet someday. It gives me hope to expect this.
somehistory says
I am personally insulted. Never having even heard the word *jihad* or seen it written in my youth, to have it applied to *all of us as humans* is an insult. And for some reason, every time my fingers attempt to write *insult* it first comes out *inslut.*
My *internal struggles* never involve such things as moslims do on a daily, hourly basis.
And by cracky, this saying we are all the *same*…Christians, etc…to justify the horrible actions around the world, increasing every day, is despicable.
On the oprah pov…she reminds me of the insurance ad where the young men and women are running from the guy with the power saws, and think it’s a bad…”crazy”…idea, to get in the running car. But they say they’ll hide in the basement of the old house, and then hide among the saws…”good idea”… and then flee to the cemetery.
She has a high opinion of her own opinion and is now hiding among the power saws.
JeffS says
He means that infidels are misunderstanding jihad, not Muslims. He wants infidels to think jihad is benign, so Muslims can “jihad” the rest of the world more easily.
gravenimage says
Exactly.
Sam says
How come nobody can point to anything good Islam produced with any reasonable proof but almost everybody goes out of their way to whitewash it. Islam is a terrible cult and should be outlawed all over the world. What is so difficult to understand about this?
celticwarriorcanada says
Hard to believe that a women who claims to have been Raped , could suck up to a Religious cult which justifies even the Rape of Children ! But that’s our Oprah , maybe she should have kept up with The Course In Miracles ! Hay do ya think she will do a couple of Episodes featuring women who have Really Been Raped like Yazidi and Christian women in Syria and Iraq,or perhaps the women in Europe who have been gang raped by muslim migrants ? Or maybe the Girls in Nigeria , Somalia And Sudan ? Probably not ! Oprah will stick to President Obama’s agenda of Blinding the Public to the seriousness of the Jihad threat, while actually supporting it, through the Financial And Military Support of So Called “Moderate Islamists, who Actually share the same Beliefs and Goals as Isis . NEXT OPRAH !!!
More Ham Ed says
1. 27223 deadly ISLAMIC terror attacks since 9/11 indicate that “jihad” is pretty dangerous.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
and 2. You can’t EARN right-standing with God. To think you can, is ultra arrogance no matter how much fake-humility you coat it with. MANY people are going to find that out the hard way, and it’s gonna’ be pretty hot.
Wellington says
Here’s my bottom line on the word “jihad”: It sucks. It’s awful. It’s an ugly word like “cancer.” There is nothing positive about “jihad,” nothing at all. Not one damn thing. The word “jihad” should be forever associated with other negative words like “blitzkrieg” and “Holocaust” and “dhimmi.” Yes, it belongs in this infamous category, not that Oprah will ever get this.
mortimer says
OPRAH commits the typical error of all interviewers unacquainted with Islam: she allows an apologist to misrepresent Islam and easily get away with the crime! Because OPRAH assumes she is ready to ask probing questions about Islam! SHE IS NOT EVEN A BEGINNER when it comes to Islamic knowledge!
It is easy to find valid definitions of ‘JIHAD’ and those AUTHENTIC definitions say jihad is PRIMARILY a religiously motivated war of conquest.
-Definition of Dictionary of Islam: Jihad is “a religious war with those who are unbelievers (kufaar) in the mission of Muhammad. It is an incumbent religious duty, established in the Quran and in the Traditions as a divine institution, enjoined specially for the purpose advancing Islam and repelling evils from Muslims.”
Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari, former Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Iran, in a collection of lectures titled, “Jihad: The Holy War of Islam and Its Legitimacy in the Quran,” published by the Islamic Propagation Organization, Tehran, Iran, and posted on the website of Al-Islam.org (accessed Apr. 26, 2007), wrote: “‘And Fight those who have not faith in God, nor in the Hereafter, and (who) forbid not what God and His Prophet have forbidden and (who ) are not committed to the religion of truth, of those who have been brought the Book, until they pay tribute by hand, and they are the low.’ (9:29) [chapter:verse of the Qur’an]
Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), jurist, renowned philosopher, historian, and sociologist, summarized these consensus opinions from five centuries of prior Muslim jurisprudence with regard to the uniquely Islamic institution of jihad:
“In the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the [Muslim] mission and [the obligation to] convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force… The other religious groups did not have a universal mission, and the holy war was not a religious duty for them, save only for purposes of defense… Islam is under obligation to gain power over other nations.”
Daniel Pipes, PhD, Director of the Middle East Forum, in a Dec. 31, 2002 New York Post article titled “What Is Jihad?” wrote:
“Jihad is ‘holy war.’ Or, more precisely: It means the legal, compulsory, communal effort to expand the territories ruled by Muslims at the expense of territories ruled by non-Muslims. The purpose of jihad… is not directly to spread the Islamic faith but to extend sovereign Muslim power. Jihad is thus unabashedly offensive in nature, with the eventual goal of achieving Muslim dominion over the entire globe.”
-Jihad is holy fighting in Allah’s Cause with full force of numbers and weaponry. It is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its pillars. By Jihad Islam is established, Allah’s Word is made superior (which means only Allah has the right to be worshiped), and Islam is propagated. By abandoning Jihad Islam is destroyed and Muslims fall into an inferior position; their honor is lost, their lands are stolen, their rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on every Muslim. He who tries to escape from this duty, or does not fulfill this duty, dies as a hypocrite.” – Footnote commentary on jihad from p580 of Sahih Al-Bukhar, publ. by Maktba Dar-us-Salam
abad says
Oprah lost credibility a long time ago. Not even sure why she is still around but she obviously feels the need for some public attention once again.
Islam :- BS, BS, BS, all the way to friday says
“Muslims see themselves as coming to god with great humility,” Try convincing an infidel rape victim of this concept
Karen says
I haven’t seen the episode, but it sounds like Mr. Soni’s views were unchallenged. It will be interesting to see if this apparent puff piece on Islam will be balanced out by something reflecting what we are seeing in the news every single day……but I won’t hold my breath.
Cunamarra says
I’ve always suspected that the internal spiritual struggle actually exists and really is the “Greater Jihad.” However, like so many other concepts in the upside down world of Islam, it is very difficult to understand it from a non-Islamic premise.
As I’ve journeyed through Islamic scriptures, my understanding of it has come to mean the inner spiritual struggle is to overcome the innate aversion in many people to murdering or treating another human being with utter cruelty. Allah reverses the standard by which rational men judge good and evil. This was his supreme achievement. Deception is also an integral part of Islam, so much so that if it could be fully removed from Islam, Islam would no longer be Islam. It would be something very different. Non-muslims constantly assume that Islam holds the same morality as Judaeo Christianity, but the internal spiritual struggle to be a better Muslim means getting oneself to dominate and/or humiliate non-Muslims, rape them, murder them, and to overcome the fear of losing ones own life in order to kill. I find too few things in Islam to “struggle” over other than these moral and intellectual perversions that Islam is so adept at producing in people it touches.
Kangi_nunpa says
A more complete explanation is provided in the Book of Jihad, on page 580 of Maktba Dar-us-Salam’s publication of Sahih Al-Bukhari: “Jihad is holy fighting in Allah’s Cause with full force of
weaponry. It is given the utmost importance in Islam and is one of its Pillars. By Jihad Islam
is established, Allah is made superior and He becomes the only God who may be worshiped.
By Jihad Islam is propagated and made superior. By abandoning Jihad (may Allah protect us
from that) Islam is destroyed and Muslims fall into an inferior position. Their honor is lost,
their lands are stolen, and Muslim rule and authority vanish. Jihad is an obligatory duty in
Islam on every Muslim. He who tries to escape this duty dies as a hypocrite.”
dajjal says
I do not find that in Bukhari. I find it in a footnote to 2.190 by Hilali/Khan. Reliance Of The Traveller defines it as “War against non-muslims” in o9.0. That section deprecates the return to greater Jihad hadith.
Huck Folder says
Lengthy but definitive account:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad
“Jihad is often translated as “Holy War”, although this term is controversial. According to “Orientalist” (historian of the Middle East) Bernard Lewis, “the overwhelming majority of classical theologians, jurists”, and specialists in the hadith “understood the obligation of jihad in a military sense.”
“The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic defines the term as “fight, battle; jihad, holy war (against the infidels, as a religious duty)”.
“The word jihad (or variations based on its root — the letters J,H,D) appear 164 times in the Quran according to one count.”
“Among reported saying of the Islamic prophet Muhammad involving jihad are
“The Messenger of Allah was asked about the best jihad. He said: “The best jihad is the one in which your horse is slain and your blood is spilled” (also cited by Ibn Nuhaas and narrated by Ibn Habbaan).”
“In February 1998, Osama bin Laden put a “Declaration of the World Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders” in the Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper. On September 11, 2001, Four passenger planes were hijacked in the United States and crashed, destroying the World Trade Center and damaging the Pentagon.”
“Ibn Nuhaas also cited a hadith from Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, where Muhammad states that the highest kind of jihad, is “The person who is killed whilst spilling the last of his blood” (Ahmed 4/144).”
“The term ‘jihad’ has accrued both violent and non-violent [see below] meanings. According to John Esposito, [taqiyyameister] it CAN simply mean striving to live a moral and virtuous life, spreading and defending Islam as well as fighting injustice and oppression, among other things. [Yeah, among ‘other’ things like Holy War!] The relative importance of these two forms of jihad is a matter of controversy.” [smokescreen]
“In his work, The History of Baghdad, Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, an 11th-century Islamic scholar, referenced a statement by the COMPANION of Muhammad Jabir ibn Abd-Allah. The reference stated that Jabir said, “We have returned from the lesser jihad (al-jihad al-asghar) to the greater jihad (al-jihad al-akbar).” When asked, “What is the greater jihad?,” he replied, “It is the struggle against oneself.” This reference gave rise to the distinguishing of two forms of jihad: “greater” and “lesser”.
“The hadith DOES NOT APPEAR IN ANY OF THE AUTHORITATIVE COLLECTIONS, and according to the Muslim Jurist Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, THE SOURCE of the quote IS UNRELIABLE:
“This saying is widespread [taqiyya] and it is a saying by Ibrahim ibn Ablah according to Nisa’i in al-Kuna. Ghazali mentions it in the Ihya’ and al-`Iraqi said that Bayhaqi related it on the authority of Jabir and said: There is WEAKNESS IN ITS CHAIN OF TRANSMISSION.”
—Hajar al Asqalani, Tasdid al-qaws; see also Kashf al-Khafaa’ (no. 1362) Abdullah Azzam attacked it as “A FALSE FABRICATED HADITH, WHICH HAS NO BASIS. It is ONLY A SAYING of Ibrahim Ibn Abi `Abalah, one of the Successors, and IT CONTRADICTS TEXTUAL EVIDENCE AND REALITY.” [As does the BoH]
“The United States Department of Justice has used its own ad hoc definitions of jihad in indictments of individuals involved in terrorist activities:
“As used in this First Superseding Indictment, ‘Jihad’ is the Arabic word meaning ‘holy war’. In this context, jihad refers to the use of violence, including paramilitary action against persons, governments deemed to be enemies of the fundamentalist version of Islam.”
“As used in this Superseding Indictment, ‘violent jihad’ or ‘jihad’ include planning, preparing for, and engaging in, acts of physical violence, including murder, maiming, kidnapping, and hostage-taking.” in the indictment against several individuals including José Padilla.
“Fighting and warfare might SOMETIMES be necessary, but it was only a MINOR [define ‘minor] part of the whole jihad or struggle,” according to [shill] Karen Armstrong.
In the late 20th and early 21st century, many militant groups include the term “jihad” in their names:
The International Islamic Front for the Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders: (Osama bin Laden’s organization in his 1998 fatwa),
Laskar Jihad of Indonesia,
Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement,
Egyptian Islamic Jihad,
Yemeni Islamic Jihad.”
“Controversy [contrived!] has arisen over whether the usage of the term jihad without further explanation refers to military combat, and whether some have used confusion over the definition of the term to their advantage. [cair et al]
“Middle East historian Bernard Lewis argues that “the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of classical theologians, jurists, and traditionalists (specialists in the hadith) understood the obligation of JIHAD in a MILITARY sense.” Furthermore, Lewis maintains that “JIHAD” in the Quran “has usually been understood as meaning ‘to wage war'”,[citation needed] and that for most of the recorded history of Islam, from the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad onward, the word JIHAD was used in a PRIMARILY MILITARY sense.”
“Historian Douglas Streusand writes that “in hadith collections, JIHAD means ARMED ACTION”. In what is probably the most standard collection of hadith, Sahih al-Bukhari, “the 199 references to JIHAD all assume that JIHAD MEANS WARFARE.”
“According to David Cook, author of Understanding Jihad:
“In reading Muslim literature – both contemporary and classical – one can see that the evidence for the primacy of ‘spiritual jihad’ is negligible. Today it is certain that no Muslim, writing in a non-Western language (such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu), would ever make claims that jihad is primarily nonviolent or has been superseded by the ‘spiritual jihad’. Such claims are made SOLELY by Western ‘scholars’, primarily those who study Sufism and/or work in INTERFAITH DIALOGUE, and by MUSLIM APOLOGISTS who are trying to present Islam in the most innocuous manner possible.”
“Cook argued that “Presentations along these lines are ideological in tone and should be discounted for their BIAS and DELIBERATE IGNORANCE of the subject” and that it “is no longer acceptable for Western ‘scholars’ or Muslim apologists writing in non-Muslim languages to make flat, unsupported statements concerning the prevalence – either from a historical point of view or within contemporary Islam – of the ‘spiritual jihad’.”
dajjal says
Visit http://quranbrowser.com/ and enter “fight” in the search window. Then try “fight” and “jihad” at http://www.sunnah.com/ that will keep you busy for a while.
Next, go to http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=8&verse=39
http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=9&verse=29
Make good use of the dictionary and concordance.
Mathew Solo says
There is a powerful Influence in the Minds of Men …Theologians first ran All Higher Education Institutions and their teachings…were these true followers of The Very Real God…is this Cosmopolitan Society a transformation of everything The Very real God Wants for Mankind…Secular Humanism…Progressive Pabulum…Pumping Out deceit… is this Destroying the very
way of life man could be living.
Just as in National Characteristics…Very Real Differences Exist…they are not all the same…religions are Not All The Same…who ever started this Muslim system and labeled it a religion of God…had a chance to observe The Popular Professing Christian Movement of their time which was underway for hundreds of years by the time the Muslims began …This Professing Christian Religion Was Ran By Rome…the Romans usurped It from True Christianity which was completely driven into hiding by the third century…was Rome an influence upon these fledgling Muslims…the Muslim movement did see Religion could be used as a cohesive control of the masses…observing the Romans Doing just that successfully…the Muslim system… was designed to suit the purpose of those who put it together …and has shown it is effective for what it was Intended.
In a recent survey of more than 4,000 Britons, the Church of England and two other religious organizations came to better understand the nation’s declining faith. “The figures found while 57% classified themselves as Christian, fewer than 10% read the Bible and prayed regularly, or go to church at least once a month” (BBC, October 31, 2015). Also, “four in 10 people did not believe Jesus was a real person, with a quarter of 18 to 34 year olds believing he was a mythical or fictional character.
The Christian Bible Says:
There is a Very Real Powerful Being Broadcasting His Way of Thinking Through the air…we have all been hit by thoughts that are so disturbing we have to shake them off with real effort…they were probably Transmitted there to the Spirit in Man…this very spirit combines with our brain to Make a Mind… Minds that are in Our Ministers…Educators…Politicians…Judges…Public…This Being is a Very Powerful Spirit Being…a Genius at Mind Ploys…effectively guiding those who are deceived into thinking they can teach themselves….Without the help of a Very Real God Who Loves Them…and decided to allow Them an allotted time to learn On Their own that They can not teach themselves without the foundation to build that learning upon…The Very Word Of God.
If you can read this feeble attempt to give a heads-up…You Can Read for Yourself.
Mr Upside Down says
MIEN KAMPT…MY STRUGGLE
MY JIHAD ……..MY STRUGGLE
Shane says
More Taqiyya from Muslim liars and the clueless liberal MSM never challenges them. Jihad means holy war is a fact.
Most important video I have ever seen on Islam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8c38_46W5c
Moderate Islam is a Myth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyotLRHMOIk
Roger says
The MSM is not clueless, they know exactly what they are doing. This is state sponsered propaganda.
Emjay See says
Try Jihad In The Way Of Allah by Dr Krishna Vallabh Paliwal – a search on Google will find it. It’s downloadable, somewhat out context I know, but I found it a good read and very informative
Troybeam says
First off Varun Soni,is wrong, Islam teaches its followers to lie about Islam to hide it true intentions.
Jihad according to the Qur’an and Reliance of the Traveller: Islamic Sacred Law aka sharia means to wage war, all Muslims must perform jihad, what is confusing for people is this: not all Muslims need to actually fight in battle however they must support jihad in other ways be it money, refuge, supplies etc, those that fight are held in higher esteem.
Now lets look at the word strive which is used often, did you know strive also means to do battle, yep let that sink in.
To learn more read Reliance of the Traveller, chapter o9.0/Jihad pages 599 to 605
By reading the Qur’an and sharia law you will understand the motive behind Islam and their drive for world dominance.
mortimer says
Agree with Troybeam. “Islam teaches its followers to lie about Islam to hide it true intentions.”
Varun Soni is giving an example of TAQIYYA…he is softening up the dirty kafirs so they will not suspect Muslims are plotting to CONQUER them for Allah…
…Allah is the BEST OF DECEIVERS…khairul makarin. Muslims are SUPPOSED to lie about their jihadist intentions.
Oppressaphobe says
What is so hard to understand here folks?
Part of their religion is to LIE!!!
I guess this is a bit sophisticated for your average American on his devices, walking into walls all day.
Raja says
Tryoybeam,
Your post just about summarizes Islam… Hope it is useful to lots of people. Thank you and God bless.
gravenimage says
If jihad is simply a spiritual struggle, then why is there an entire chapter of the Qur’an entitled “Booty” or “The Spoils of War” (al-Anfal). What spoils ensue from a spiritual struggle? If jihad is simply a spiritual struggle, how is a Muslim supposed to make Jews and Christians “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29) spiritually?
…………………..,.,..,….,..,.,
What could be more “spiritual” for a pious Muslim than robbing, raping, oppressing, or murdering “filthy Infidels?
“Hamas: ‘Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah’”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/hamas-killing-jews-is-worship-that-draws-us-close-to-allah
“He said that raping me is his prayer to God”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/08/he-said-that-raping-me-is-his-prayer-to-god
There are many more such hideous stories, showing exactly what “spirituality” means in Islam.
Raja says
Gravenimage,
As always, your post is objective. I don’t miss your comments. Thanks..
John Johness says
Academics just keep pouring out this slop for our consumption. Ask the Sri Soni about his ancestors and their friends in India. I guess all those Muslims who slaughtered millions and millions of Hindus over the last 800 years in India – just did not have Sri Soni’s handy Dictionary of Islamic Terminology. It was just a misunderstanding over a word.
Sir Soni is just another academic making a career out of Islamic lunacy, by showing that is it all a matter of terminology. Of course it’s all miscommunication. Don’t forget words are the currency of the modern academic. They mean money.
OK then try ‘behead’
“an Islamic scholar claimed that behead is one of the most misunderstood and misused concepts of the religion”.
خَليفة says
Like Anthropologists say about New Guinea “to get ahead you have to get a head”
Maybe for Muslims they say “to be ahead you have to behead”
#NukeMecca
Raja says
John,
I googled about this Varun and he said his Hindu grandfather moved to India after independence from the Brits.This means that his ancestors were uprooted due to mass killings along the borders of newly carved out Pakistan in 1947.
This man’s ancestors were probably from Sindh province of Pakistan. Do you remember that province was attacked /looted/ravished by Islamic thugs as early as 7th century? Varun’s ancestors somehow survived the bloodbath and oppression/slavery until last century and evidently the going got too tough in 1947.
Now for this man to be apologetic for Islam may seem irrational and without character/ self respect but that is how a Westerner is brought up. Economics first and the rest can be put behind !!! This man is taqiyya in perpetual action!!!!!
Bill Shackelford says
America is committing cultural suicide, courtesy of the first 16 words of the First Amendment.
Troybeam says
Couldn’t have stated it better, Islam is using the First Amendment to gain control by inserting “sharia” as a cultural need rather than their legal sharia. Need to change the status of Islam from a religious named entity what it is actually a theocracy, sooner the better for our nation.
KnowThyEnemy says
@Bill
I am sorry but you stating such a thing means you do not understand the First Amendment nor the importance of it!
First 16 words of First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;…..”
Consider this- My religion says I must keep an eye out for the evil ideologies masquerading as religion and do everything I can to expose them to the world, or else I am not a good follower!
If I choose to exercise my religion, which I have to because I want to be a *good* follower, the above quote from 1st Amendment says that the government cannot prohibit me from exposing evil cults like Islam. So how exactly is the 1st Amendment a problem??
The problem is not with the 1st Amendment; It is with Americans’ apathy towards understanding it and exercising it. If some miracle happens and Americans start giving importance to the 1st Amendment, Islam will be reduced to the same status that communism and nazism suffer in the US!
Now here is the good news: A near miracle has happened and we have Dr. Ben Carson running for President 2016. The doctor understands the US Constitution very well, and knows how valuable and important it is. This is in addition to him knowing the dangers of Islam. What can be better? 🙂
So don’t drop the ball, vote for Carson and tell every US citizen you know to do so too!
citycat says
“misused concepts of the religion”?
Er, it’s not the concepts of the religion that are misused, but what is misused is the very concept of Islam being a religion.
And Islam is, by the look of Islamic deeds, the one thing that is mostly understood by every Muslim, and also that is extremly used to impart on the rest of the non-Muslim brothers and sisters of Earth serious abuse that is mentally, physically and spiritually wrong.
sidney penny says
Robert hits the nail on the head with his introductions
Now what is jihad?.
http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tcqp/chi3.htm
CHAPTER 3-ENTIRE QURAN IS A MANUAL ON JIHAD.
I could not see any spirituality here.
Tim says
Varun Soni is blatantly lying.
Would he like to elaborate on this “interpretation” from the Hadith:
The Mother of the Believers, ‘Aishah, said:
“I said: ‘O Messenger of allah, shall we not go out and fight in jihad with you, for I do not think there is any deed in the qur’an that is better than jihad.’ He said: ‘No. the best and most beautiful (type) of jihad is Hajj to the House; Hajj Al-Mabrur. ”(sahih)
Sunan an-Nasa’i 2628
Book 24, Hadith 0
Vol. 3, Book 24, Hadith 2629
“Fight in jihad with you” is not a reference to inner struggles. Besides, there are so many references to raiding, looting, invading as a term for jihad that Varun Soni, who appears to be of Indian Hindu origin, could talk himself blue in defense of it and it wont change a thing for 1.6billion Muslims.
G179 says
The people who best understand jihad are its VICTIMS. When the moment of truth arrives, and the jihadi is charging at you with a big knife, there is no room for doubt: jihad simply means murder.
Oppressaphobe says
Good old Oprah!
How long before they would chop her head off?
Poor, dumb Oprah!!
Roger says
How long? Shes part of the establishment, part of this shitstem. Shes safe and cozy with her armed guards.
Rob Porter says
After all the Muslim savagery since 9/11, with more than 27,000 acts of Muslim violence, anyone who still believes Varun Soni’s claims about jihad is just a disgracefully gullible fool. Varun Soni is simply another Muslim barefaced liar, deceiver and exponent of taqiyya.
However gullible idiots regarding Islam abound in the Western world. Further evidence of this reality was an absurd and disgusting November 4 article in the British newspaper, the Telegraph. Entitled ‘What the Koran really says about females’ (be assured it does not!) and written by the Telegraph’s Middle East correspondent, Carla Power, after reading her article I was forced to conclude that Power is suffering from a kind of Oslo Syndrome. She claimed to have studied the Koran under a “conservative Islamic scholar”, but it becomes evident that this ‘conservative Islamic scholar’ is an arch liar and gave Power his taqiyya version of the ‘Koran’, in the process completely duping this gullible woman into writing a load of utter rubbish.
Dave from San Antonio says
“Jihad” is “misunderstood” spiritual struggle, Muslim scholar tells Oprah”
I don’t think ‘jihad’ is “misunderstood”…especially by those who have experienced it. “Spiritual jihad”, to me, is the “inner struggle” the muslim experiences when they realize they may have to wait before they kill the infidel…when they want to kill…”now”. Maybe it’s an “inner struggle” when they realize they’ve been selected for sacrifice by suicide…or as they say, “martyrdom”.(Notice how only the young are “chosen” for this “honor”…none of the older muslims go for it or volunteer…for this “great honor”) Spiritual jihad is only mentioned in the qur’an a couple or so times…but the violent(true) form of jihad is found throughout the qur’an in one form or another. Those who buy-in to the lies, as told by this, so called, “scholar” are about as blind as the come. The blind try to lead the blind…lemmings go over the cliff…and the bad part is…they want us to be led and follow over the cliff.
Never submit!
Lenny Thetruth says
In this day and age, less and less people believe in God. Well, down deep, I really wonder if those who say they don’t, really do. But, after all these years, we don’t know, and nobody can prove it or disprove it. But, just to hedge our bet, we keep an eye open, just in case.
We can start our Western beliefs with the Jews. Monotheism was a new concept, and Abraham was the father. The Jews were a nomadic people and they were also warriors. The story goes that as they escaped Egypt, Moses stopped and went up the mountain, and was given “The Law” in the form of the Teen Commandments. They covered what should be and what should not.
Then, a Jewish lad named Jesus came around. He liked to preach. He didn’t define anything new, but tried to teach what was already in the bible. Some people thought he was God, and worshiped him as God.
Then a third generation of followers of Abraham came up. They had a prophet too. Mohammed. He told the people that Abraham was taught by God, and God gave him secrets. Then Jesus also had secrets revealed to him. But, to Mohammed, God revealed the full truth. This was Gods law, finally reaching the people. The people had an obligation to teach this to the world. They could use force if need be. And, because this was the final interpertation of the law, it was the pureist. The other religions were telling half truths, but Islam was the real truth. Therefore, if you didn’t believe, you should die.
So, for 1400 years, this religion used it’s God given direction to conquer the world. They were superior to Jews and Christians. They could tolerate those people, if they were useful, but these dhimmies would have to pay a special tax for the privlege of living among Muslims. Thus came the Jizyah, which was paid. People who resisted were killed.
Islam is a retrograde religion. It is a step backwards in time. It teaches division. It teaches moral supremacy. It tells people it is okay to kill those who oppose it. And since the Jews and Christians don’t believe in doing the same, Islam is unchecked. Nobody ever said to kill them all. In biblical days, they might have, but this is modern civilization. These people should be transplanted into a deep jungle where they won’t be a threat to anybody but themselves. We don’t need them. They have never given the world anything but misery. We owe them nothing. But, they have the sense that we owe them everything. And, they are trying to collect it.
If civilization accepts this behavior, why? Because our religion teaches love, not hate. We learn to share, not steal. We learn to love, not dominate. So, if you remove religion from this, you are left with a criminal organization. They would be arrested en masse. But, as we defer to them, there are apologists like Obama who see it as just another belief. And, we are all entittled to our beliefs. So, clock boy gets invited to the White House.
S Barkat says
In Islam. there is no spirituality. Jihad is killing non Muslim. Muslim man such good acts Mullahs explains jihad: : “Oh Allah, annihilate the Jews…let us kill them” and what reward murder 70 virgins and honey and good Muslim get in heaven:
Internet posted September 1, 2015
Saudi Sheikh: Men in Paradise Will Be Busy ‘Tearing Hymens’
Saudi Sheikh Yahya Al-Jana’ explains the precise ‘pleasures’ of a man who has the merit to enter the ‘Paradise’ of the next world. Note: Most women don’t make it there.
Saudi Sheikh Yahya Al-Jana’ waxes lyrical about the joy virgins
There are not many women in paradise. It is mostly men who enter paradise. (Prophet Mohammed) said that some women would not even smell paradise. although it can be smelled from a distance that would take 500 years to cross. Why? They are unveiled playing, up charms. Wearing tight clothes in shopping malls putting on perfumes and jewllary, talking to young men , sending her pictures via filthy social media platforms.
Allah described (the virgins of paradise) very specifically. He even described their breasts: indeed for the pious there is place for triumph. Gardens and grape yards, full -breasted women of equal age.” “Full-breasted women of equal age” refer to the virgin of paradise.Allah described their breasts in order to let you know what awaits for you in paradise. There is no shame talking about these things. (Allah) wants make you vie for (paradise). This message is directed towards people whose loose paradise because they succumbs to momentary lust. The breasts of the virgins of paradise are like poemgranates. They don’t sag, they are very beautiful. Where are lover of women? Where are you, who desire these virgins. How many people lost their promised virgins for sake of one unveiled whore? Allah even mentioned sex, in order to make you lust for paradise. It is just food, drink and happiness. There is also sex, as well as women who are nothing like those you meet in this world. Allah said:”indeed, dwellers of paradise will be busy in joyful things that day. They and their wives will be reclining on adorned couches” Abu Mujliz said that he asked Abn ‘Abbas:. Allah said dwellers of paradise are busy. What keeps them busy? What keeps them busy O Ibn ‘Abbas?” Ibn ‘Abbas said: “They Will Be Busy ‘Tearing Hymens” Is there sex in paradise? Yes, Ibn ‘Abbas narrated the prophet Mohamed was asked, (Oh messenger of Allah, will we have sex with our wives in paradise, like we do on earth. Mohammed said, “by Allah, a man have a hundred virgins in a single morning.” And what it is more amazing is that each time he returns one of them, he will find that she is virgin again and that she is even more lustful and feminine. He will find her virgin again, not like a women in this world. Whose hymens ruptured once that’s it. Ever time he returns from meeting Allah, he will find a virgin again.The dwellers of paradise given the strength of a hundred men. When it comes to eating, drinking and sex, because, some of the dwellers of paradise may be married off to a hundred woen or even more. He will be given the strength of a hundred men, so that in one morning, he will be able to have sex with hundred virgins of paradise
________________________________________
‘Most of Those Who Enter the Gates of Hell Are Women’
At a Friday sermon at the al-Salam mosque in Giza, Egypt, an imam explains to men where women will end up and how ‘in paradise,’ a man ‘will be given the strength of a 100 men when it comes to lust, pleasure, eating, drinking and sexual intercourse.’
Egyptian Imam Abu Mu’adh Al-Dardiri extols the pleasure of paradise
Friday Sermon Al-Salam Mosque ,Giza. Egypt. Internet May 8, 2015.
‘Most of Those Who Enter the Gates of Hell Are Women’, Most of the dwellers of hell are women. Out of every 100 dwellers of hell, 30 are men and 70 are women. In other words, every 3 men in hell, there are seven women. The prophet Mohammed said, with regard to the black-eyed virgin of paradise: “A will lie on his back in paradise for 70 years…”. He will enjoy those virgins of paradise regular basis. But at some point virgin will come to him, slap him on the shoulders. This is a pampering slap, a slap of love. Some men like this. A man likes to be slapped by a women, as long as it is not on the neck. The prophet Mohammed said:” I swear by Allah that a man in (paradise) will be given a strength of hundred men when it comes to lust, pleasure, eating, drinking and sexual intercourse.’ A hundred men! According to the hadith by Zayd IB Arqam, quoted in the Musnad of Ahmed Ibn Hanbal, “A man (in paradise) will have a hundred virgins just in one morning” ,just in one morning. He said: “ he will have a hundred virgins just in one morning” These are the words of prophet Mohammed.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “If jihad is simply a spiritual struggle, why are there thousands upon thousands of Muslims worldwide who have joined violent jihad groups? Why are there any violent jihad groups at all? Why is this misunderstanding of jihad so widespread?”
Why does this “peaceful inner struggle” involve rallying the steeds of war, physical weapons and armor?
Why are the old, deaf and blind people exempted from jihad? Can they not still struggle internally?
😉
TheDane says
“Misunderstood” – my bare arse!!! Moslems are disciples of the Father of Lies, and they lie for sports, same as they kill and rape for sports!
JBubs says
All Muslims are required to use taqiyya (deception) when dealing with infidels in order to advance Islam. Therefore all Muslims lie about Islam to all infidels, which makes Varun Soni a liar in this context. Surely Oprah and the majority of Americans are aware of this tactic by now?
Zang says
I am impressed by the way that islam lie is spreading around the world.
For, every one to KNOW, there are four tools of deceiving in islam, and those are taqqyia, muruna, tawria and kitman.
Posts most detaliated, you can find on youtube.
The point is that, working for a muslim, I “tasted” the kitman…
Therefore, islam is a malware, not religion, quran is a trojan, ala is a lie, moamet is a paedophile and a killer.
All of the above, are backed up, unfortunatelly, by actions that muslims do to other people. Therefore, even if I am called a liar, a killer is a killer, for it kills, a paedophille is a paedophille, for it forces children into sex relations,
And, an important thing, that is to be remembered, a muslim consider other religoin followers, as “inferiors”…. like “untermensch”…. “untermensch”….so, they must be….”herrenvolk”… therefore, a muslim CAN and WILL FIND in quran, a “support” to do any kind of actions against others, for: “it is written in quran, so we do it!”
Meaning,
We, muslims we want to kill today…. searching quran…” srtike the unbeliever wherever you find him, in the name of alla!”
We, muslims wanna bang today…. searching quran: ” take slaves from the unbelievers, and fullfill your needs with them, for, you are a conquerror, and you have rights, and is not a sin to do that, they are slaves”
We muslims wanna do whatever we want, and, in quran, we WILL find a way to back our actions up. Period.
Well, “dear” murderers… sorry, muslims, SHOW ONE pearson healed from diseases, in the name of your lie.
SHOW ONE pearson, eliberated from bad spirits.
And, most important ( as most important) : SHOW ONE pearson RESURECTED TO LIFE, from the dead, so, we can be impressed by your…mental illnes and malware, called islam.
If you cannot do that, what you can do only, is to kill. So can a stone to do.
The BIG differrrence from you and a stone is, that you WILL feeeeeeel the fire and the worm that NEVER ends, when thrown into the eternal fire.
Heil Jesus.
Ps: Lazarus.
Daughter of Iair.
Peter’s mother-in-law.
So that, if you want to open your mouth against, God to shut it up with stones.
Amen.
Champ says
This isn’t the first time that oprah has taken leave of her senses …
gravenimage says
I’m afraid this is true, Champ. Unfortunately, an awful lot of people still hang on her every word.
Champ says
True, Graven–it’s scary how much notoriety and influence this poor *deceived* woman has (of course she’s deceived by choice). And it also speaks volumes about those that actually listen to her bad advice.