A DELIBERATION ON THE INITIATIVE JIHA-D OF CALLING TO ISLAM

FAKHLAEI M.T.

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Journal: JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC STUDIES Year:1386 | Volume:- | Issue:77 (ویژه فقه و حقوق اسلامی) Page(s): 117-155

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Title

A DELIBERATION ON THE INITIATIVE JIHA^-D OF CALLING TO ISLAM

Author(s)

FAKHLAEI M.T.

Keywords

SANS-SERIF"> JIHA-DQ3

SANS-SERIF">QITA-L (WARFARE)Q3

VERSE OF SWORDQ3

DA‘WAQ3

INVULNERABILITY TO RELUCTANCEQ3

CONCILIATION-SEEKINGQ3

Abstract

Among different kinds of jihād (holy struggle), DA‘WA (calling to Islam) has for centuries filled up legal sources with discussions. According to the legal popular belief, war against all kinds of infidels is obligatory and that they have to either convert to Islam or accept the consequences of war, such as murder, etc. only people of the Scripture are offered a third alternative, known as protective (dhimma) covenant. Apart from the feasibility of this phenomenon in the present human society, its theoretical foundations require accurate survey, too. What this paper is putting forward, following an accurate study of jihād arguments in the Qur'an, Sunna, and Sīra, is that the popular legal impression concerning jihād of DA‘WA has been based on several obliged and unprovable issues such as adhering to the jihād generalities and expanding of claims of abrogation, and flourished through the ignorance of the rational and epistemic fundamentals and principles in the process of inference and the historical circumstances of legislation of jihād ; hence, a forged and indefensible issue, unless a new legal version of it is presented, which will inevitably be in contrast to the popular perception.

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