However...

However, some background information was necessary in reference to those Quranic Verses and historical events, as per quoted in the Ahadith of Masomeen -asws , when \u2018Jihad\u2019 in its true \u2018holy-war\u2019 sense was legitimately practised.

\n The word \u2018Jihad\u2019 has been mentioned in 164 Verses of Holy Quran, in Arabic language it literally means, \u2018to strive, to struggle.\u00a0 In it\u2019s broad meanings, anything which comes in the way of good and one strives to overcome it will be classified as Jihad.\u00a0 In several ahadith of Masomeen -asws it is categorised into two major types, the \u2018Jihad-e-Akbar\u2019 and Jihad-e-Asghar\u2019 (the greater striving and the minor striving, respectively).