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Meaning of Jihad is “to exert in the Path of God :” “Islamic theology, therefore, tells the true believer that his highest duly is to make exertion in the path of God by waging war against infidel lands till they become a part of the realm of Islam . After conquest, the entire infidel population becomes theoretically reduced to the status of slaves of the conquering army . The men taken with arms are to be slain or sold into slavery and their wives and children induced to servitude. As for the non-combatants among the vanquished, they are not massacred out right, as the Canon lawyer Shafi declared to the Quranic injunction, it is only to give them a respite till they are so wisely guided as to accept the true faith. (en) |
