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Jihad Fillah June 23, 2013
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Quran 29:69 · Al-Ankabut
▶ 7:56
Quran 3:190 · Aal-Imran
▶ 8:38
Quran 12:105 · Yusuf
▶ 14:41
Quran 29:69 · Al-Ankabut
▶ 17:20
Quran 2:30 · Al-Baqarah
▶ 18:46
Quran 2:31 · Al-Baqarah
▶ 20:15
As-Sarim al-Maslul by Ibn Taymiyyah, p. 442
▶ 23:59
Quran 6:108 · Al-An'am
▶ 25:38
Quran 16:68 · An-Nahl
▶ 30:10
Quran 54:55 · Al-Qamar
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Quranic verse defining jihad fi Allah
“Walladhina jahadu feena lanahdiyannahum subulana”
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Intellectual jihad versus practical jihad explained
“Jihad in the way of Allah is a practical matter”
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Jihad fi Allah means striving for God-oriented thinking
“Jihad means at-most struggle, striving with all your effort”
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God-oriented thinking is the first condition of life
“This God-oriented thinking is the first true condition of life”
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Keeping your thinking process always oriented to Allah
“Your thinking process should constantly run on Allah's realities”
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Signs of Allah are everywhere, but only for thinkers
“There was an Islamic poet named Abu al-Atahiya”
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Undeveloped intellect gains nothing without jihad fi Allah
“Until you develop it, your intellect gains nothing at all”
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Materialism and wealth never buy real happiness, two stories
“Today's newspaper had a home ad: investment for abounding pleasure”
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Ibn Taymiyyah's angry fatwa versus the angels' precedent
“Now look at the story of Ibn Taymiyyah”
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Scholars' violent fatwas versus Russell Brand's peaceful reading
“Let me give you another example, a very unique parallel one”
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Russell Brand reads Quran, finds no violent teaching
“A Hollywood top film star, Russell Brand, picked up the Quran”
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Quran never commands killing over insulting the Prophet
“The Quran tells Muslims: do not insult others' gods”
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The honeybee analogy: Allah selects the sincere from history
“The Quran mentions the honeybee, called an-Nahl”
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True individuals sorted out through history, paradise reward
“True individuals across history will be sorted out”
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Bee's nectar-seeking as a model for history's outcome
“What Allah taught the honeybee demonstrates what God will do”
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Recognizing glimpses of paradise through developed thinking
“There's a Quranic verse: Allah admits those who recognized paradise”
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Is Om the same as Allah? Freedom versus truth
“The case you described — in my view, he's simply wrong”
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Defining shirk versus tawheed by your true concern
“Man naturally longs for a being he can love and trust”
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Quran is a book of ideology, not culture
“Culture has nothing to do with Islam at all”
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Difference between contemplation and meditation practices
“Meditation and contemplation are two completely different things”
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The price of jihad fi Allah: escaping every distraction
“What is the price we must pay for jihad fi Allah?”
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High thinking makes small distractions lose their appeal
“If you've developed high thinking, small things won't interest you”
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How to avoid negative thinking, a personal method
“I live with a hundred percent positive mind, always”
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The save-yourself formula against negative thinking
“My formula is simply this: save yourself”
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What distraction means and how media fuels it
“Literally, distraction means wandering off the right path”
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How Maulana avoids pointless arguments daily
“I don't waste time arguing — I just say, you're right”
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Quran as Furqan, the criterion for right and wrong
“We take the Quran itself as our criterion”
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Using the Quran as your criterion for judgment
“This formula is very easy: discover your criterion first”
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