إن الذين آمنوا والذين هاجروا وجاهدوا في سبيل الله أولئك يرجون رحمة (2:218) بالانجليزي

(2:218) In contrast to them, those, who have believed And left their homes in the way of Allah and exerted their utmost in His cause, *234 rightly look forward to His mercy: and Allah is Forgiving and full of mercy.

Tafseer Abu-al-A'la Maududi

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*234). Jihad denotes doing one's utmost to achieve something. It is not the equivalent of war, for which the Arabic word is qital. Jihad has a wider connotation and embraces every kind of striving in God's cause. A mujahid is a person who is single-mindedly devoted to his cause, who uses his mental capacity to reflect how best he can achieve it, propagates it by word of mouth and by the pen, uses his physical energy in striving to serve it, spends all the resources at his disposal to promote it, employs all the force he commands in confronting any power which might stand in its way, and, whenever necessary, does not shirk risking his very life for it. All this is Jihad. ' Jihad in the way of God' is that strife in which man engages exclusively to win God's good pleasure, to establish the supremacy of His religion and to make His word prevail.