The True Islamic Concept of Jihad — Page 28
[ 28 ] Empire of that day. These are magnificent words, in which the Queen has been invited to Islam in very clear language. She has been asked to repent from that false religion and has been called towards Islam. This is that spirit of jihad whose essence the Promised Messiah as understood. As a result, he led his Jam a ‘at on the path of an eternal jihad , so that the days and nights—in fact our every moment— became a jihad. A well known Pakistani historian, Sheikh Muhammad Akram, writes in his book: O f t h e Mu s l i m s o f t h e w o r l d , i t w a s t h e Ahmadis…who understood the reality that although it was the time of political decline for the Muslims, the Muslims could avail of the opportunity—that was new in the history of religions—to preach in the Christian empires because of the freedom and maxi- mum advantage could be gained from it. ( Mauj-e- Kauthar , p. 187) He also states: Muslims in general only pay lip service to jihad with the sword. They neither carry out the jihad practi- cally nor perform the jihad of preaching. But the Ahmad i s…consider the other kind of jihad —that is, the jihad of preaching—a religious obligation, and have met considerable success in this regard. ( Ibid. , p. 179)