Qur’an
Leader Resource 11: Jihad Ayas
for use with Session 4 Activity 3
Readings taken from The Quran translated by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
I have substituted “Allah” for Khan’s translation, “God”.
4:95-96
Those believers who stay behind – apart from those forced by necessity – are not equal to
those who strive hard [al-mujahiduna] in Allah’s cause with their possession and their
persons…Allah has promised all a reward; but far greater is the recompense of those who
strive [al-mujahiduna] for Him – high ranks conferred by Him as well as forgiveness and
mercy.
47:31
Most certainly We will try you until We have discovered those among you who strive [almujahidina] their hardest, and those who are steadfast, and will test your record.
9:19
Do you regard giving water to pilgrims and tending the Sacred Mosque as being equal to
the deeds of those who believe in Allah and the Last Day and who strive [jahada] in Allah’s
path? They are not equal in the sight of Allah. Allah does not guide such unjust people.
9:73
O Prophet, strive [jahidi] against those who deny the truth and the hypocrites, and be firm
against them. Their abode shall be Hell: an evil destination.
29:8
We have enjoined [humans] to show kindness to [their] parents. But if they bid [jahadaka]
you associate with Me something about which you have no knowledge, do not obey them.
25:51-52
If We had so wished, We might have sent a warner into every town, so do not yield to
those who deny the truth, but strive [jahidhum] with the utmost strenuousness by means of
this [Quran, to convey its message to them].
2:217-218
They will not stop fighting you until they make you renounce your faith, if they can.
Whoever of you turns back from his faith and dies as a denier of the truth will have his
deeds come to nothing in this world and the Hereafter, and he will be an inhabitant of the
Fire, to abide therein forever. But those who have believed, migrated, and strive [jahadu]
for Allah’s cause, can look forward to Allah’s mercy: Allah is forgiving and merciful.
61:11
You should believe in Allah and His Messenger, and strive [tujahiduna] for Allah’s cause with
your possessions and your lives.
3:142
And do not become faith of heart, nor grieve – you will have the upper hand, if you are
believers – if you have suffered a wound, they too have suffered a similar wound…Do you
suppose that you would enter the Garden, without Allah knowing those among you who
would strive hard [jahadu] for His cause and endure with fortitude?
9:86-88
When a chapter is revealed enjoining, ‘Believe in Allah and strive for the cause of Allah
along with His Messenger,’ the wealthy among them ask you to exempt them saying, ‘Let us
stay with those who are to stay behind’…[T]heir hearts are sealed and so they do not
understand. But the Messenger and those who shared his faith strove hard [jahadu] with
their possessions and their lives. It is they who shall have all kinds of good, and it is they
who shall surely prosper.
49:14-15
The Arabs of the desert say, ‘We have believed.’ Say to them, ‘You have not believed yet;
say, rather, “We have submitted,” for faith has not yet entered into your hearts….The
believers are only those who have faith in Allah and His Messenger and then doubt not, but
strive [jahadu], hard with their wealth and their persons for the cause of Allah. Such are the
truthful ones.
5:35
Believers, fear Allah and seek ways to come closer to Him and strive [jahidu] for his cause,
so that you may prosper.
9:41
Go forth, whether lightly or heavily equipped, and strive and struggle [jahidu] , with your
goods and your persons, for the cause of Allah.
22:78
Strive [jahidu] for the cause of Allah as it behooves you to strive for it. He has chosen you
and laid on you no burden in the matter of your religion, the faith of Abraham your
forefather. In this, as in former scriptures He has given you the name of Muslims, so that
the Messenger may be a witness over you, and so that you may be witnesses over
[humankind]. Therefore say your prayers regularly and pay the zakat and hold fast to Allah.