The Sanctity of a Muslim

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

 AlhamduLillah syukur ... a bit late ... ending the day with Hadith No 8 from the compilation of 40 Hadith of Imam Al-Nawawi rahimahuLLah ...

Hadith No 8: The Sanctity of A Muslim

 On the authority of Ibn `Umar (ra) that the Messenger of Allah (sas) said:

I have been ordered to fight against the people until they testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, and until they establish the prayer, and pay the Zakah.

And if they do that, then they will have gained protection from me for their blood and property;

Except for the rights of Islam, (i.e. - unless they do acts that are punishable in Islam), and their Reckoning is with Allah the Exalted.

[Bukhari & Muslim]

for a brief commentary (8:20) ... please visit here ...

http://www.40hadithnawawi.com/index.php/the-hadiths/hadith-8

and the concept of Jihad is elaborated here ...

http://muslimjapan.com/237.html and here by the same scholar ...

http://fortyhadith.iium.edu.my/hadith08.htm

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Jihad ... about ... the need to understand ourselves, to understand Islam, to educate others about Islam, to understand the contemporary challenges, to equip ourselves with the right tools so that we can face and counter the contemporary challenges in the right way  ...

(Dr Jamal Ahmed Badi, IIUM)

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mountain stream ... image source ... here 

the stream ... and the path of least resistance ...