Murabit, please present the gist of the speech in your own words. The subject is Jihad. What does the speaker say about it? Does he support the Jihaad with a sword (or bomb) now in these days i.e. to fight against the non-Muslims. Or he recommends the Jihad against the desires of the self or he recommends the preaching of the Islamic teachings?

 Surely, you must listened and read the whole article and understood it. So you are the best person to explain it to us. It is good that you have provided the full picture for any one to watch the complete material. But a few words from yourself would be useful. Thanks.

minuteman wrote: Murabit, please present the gist of the speech in your own words. The subject is Jihad. What does the speaker say about it? Does he support the Jihaad with a sword (or bomb) now in these days i.e. to fight against the non-Muslims. Or he recommends the Jihad against the desires of the self or he recommends the preaching of the Islamic teachings?  Surely, you must listened and read the whole article and understood it. So you are the best person to explain it to us. It is good that you have provided the full picture for any one to watch the complete material. But a few words from yourself would be useful. Thanks

These materials aren�t your movies, or music clips or any piece of entertainment that needs reviews.

These are materials pertaining to the Deen (and I consider these materials to be �knowledge�, not just mere �information�) and therefore needs no reviews.

I can, however, talk of the things that I learnt from it, but then again, different people learn different things differently and I thus do no wish to limit or discourage the learning experience of others by my personal reviews of these materials.

The titles of these talks are self-explanatory (on the subject of the talk) and one does not need a review � be it personal or otherwise, to know of the importance for all knowledge pertaining to the Deen are of same importance.

And surely, having listened to a talk of knowledge, specially one on the internet, does not make one the best person to explain. No wonder you have all sorts of weird comments and weird fatwas flying all over the net, posted by people who unfortunately, consider themselves the "best person" to speak of the knowledge that they are trying to talk about.

 Murabit: Thanks. Your post:  And surely, having listened to a talk of knowledge, specially one on the internet, does not make one the best person to explain. No wonder you have all sorts of weird comments and weird fatwas flying all over the net, posted by people who unfortunately, consider themselves the "best person" to speak of the knowledge that they are trying to talk about.

 I will listen to the videos when I have enough of time. As you know and you have agreed that there is a lot of weird fatwas flying all over the net. The subject / topic here has been Jihaad. We know that is a much misunderstood word.

 There are some people who are advocating Jihaad with weapons. There are others who do not agree and they believe in peaceful Islam and peaceful preaching only. Maudoodi sahib advocated Jihaad with swords and I believe that the Ikhwaan of Egypt also did it (I am not sure).

 If Jihaad means struggle then there is a lot of (political) struggle going on in many countries. But I am only interested in understanding the validity of the religious Jihaad.  I have seen many killed in Afghanistan in the name of Jihaad and the remaining beautiful children of the Afghans are roaming the streets picking crumbs from waste baskets.

 Poor people did not have any good guide. Even if the guide was good but the present day world is very fast and clever, advanced technologically. Islam means peace. The path to progress is through peace and not war. Please give your own remarks. What do you say? Did you learn anything from those lectures / videos? Thanks.