The word mujahadah
........
means to struggle and exert one's
utmost against an opponent , and when
the particular opponent force is not
pointed out, the word implies an
all-out, many-sided struggle.
The struggle that a believer has to
make in the world, is of this very
nature
He has to fight against Satan, who
frightens him every moment of the
possible losses he that have to incur
for the sake of good and allures him
with the benefits and pleasures of the
evil. He has to fight his own self
also, which exerts to make him the
slave of its lusts. He has also to
fight all those men, from home to the
world outside, whose ideology, trends,
morality, customs way of life and
social and economic principles may be
in conflict with his Faith; and he has
to fight that state too, which
enforces its laws independent of
obedience to Allah, and employs its
forces to promote evil instead of the
good. This struggle is not of a day or
two, but of a lifetime, of every
moment of the day and night. And it is
not a struggle in one field only but
on every front of life. It is about
this that Hadrat Hasan Basri has said:
"Man exerts in the way of Allah, even
though he may not strike one sword at
any time."
Chapter : 29. Al-Ankabut
verse: 5-7)
