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"[[Fard]]" means ''Compulsory''. [[Jihad]] is an ''Individual duty'' (لواجب الع fard al-ayn) and is also a community responsibility, or ''sufficiency duty'' (الواجب الكفائي fard al-kifaya), for each and every Muslim. While modern voices differentiate between a ''personal'' or greater Jihad and a military or lesser Jihad, such a dichotomy is not found in classical and especially early Islamic literature, and finds no endorsement in Islamic scripture, which refers to Jihad overwhelmingly, and | "[[Fard]]" means ''Compulsory''. [[Jihad]] is an ''Individual duty'' (لواجب الع fard al-ayn) and is also a community responsibility, or ''sufficiency duty'' (الواجب الكفائي fard al-kifaya), for each and every Muslim. While modern voices differentiate between a ''personal'' or greater Jihad and a military or lesser Jihad, such a dichotomy is not found in classical and especially early Islamic literature, and finds no endorsement in Islamic scripture, which refers to Jihad overwhelmingly, and some argue exclusively, as a doctrine of military conquest, with the reference to internal struggle being a metaphorical usage. | ||
==Scholars== | ==Scholars== | ||