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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (181188)	9/14/2001 3:13:37 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

Actually, that's not how I read Ken's remarks. But more importantly, he was taken to task by myself and others for some of his more extreme posts. I've yet to see you make a peep about some of the ridicuolus crap AS, assenna, CC, et al post. The fact that you dredge this up again says a lot more about you than it does about Kenny. You're a loser. A sore loser and a petty, partisan whiner. JLA

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (181188)	9/14/2001 5:00:25 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

Jihaad is mostly defined as struggle. When the Prophet, sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam, went to Medina, a different stage began, and there was now a jihaad of a physical type, a martial struggle where they went out. However, Allah subhaana wa ta'aala says to fight them until the war comes to an end. This type of jihaad has an end in time, and yet jihaad in its broader understanding in the sharia' never ends. The struggle for the sake of Allah never ends as long as somebody is in this abode. This is why jihaad is the expenditure of one's efforts for the sake of good. It means to do good things. It means to exert one's effort in the society to help people, to expend one's wealth-to give charity-to change the conditions around you: if they are bad, make them better. This can be done without martial effort in many places, and this is still a type of jihaad. This is why it is wrong for people to narrow the understanding of jihaad to some limited definition which only gives the understanding of military struggle because that is not what jihaad means in Islam. Except for the narrow military definition, (which the OBL's of the world have adopted) jihaad is a perfectly acceptable description.