Certainly...

Certainly, such sedition and deprivation of liberty and torture and pressure to change the belief and religion of God is worse than killing, so the phrase “وَيَكُونَ الدِّينُ كُلُّهُ لِلَّهِ” ( and religion is all for Allah ) indicates that the removal of sedition is that everyone can freely worship God and not be afraid of anything or anyone, and infidels of Mecca wouldn’t be free to turn the house of the Kaaba into an idol-temple and the sincere Muslims could not be able to say “Allah Akbar” and “La ilaha illa Allah” openly.

However, verses 190, 191, and 193 of this surah (Surah Al-Baqarah) which are all related to each other; show well that extinguishing the fire of sedition as a goal for Islamic Jihad is in fact a defensive aspect and protects the believers against the cultural, social and military aggression of the enemies of Islam. 3.

Jihad for supporting the oppressed Verse 75 of Surah An-Nisa’ invites Muslims to jihad for supporting the oppressed and fight the oppressors and says: وَمَا لَكُمْ لَا تُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَالْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ الرِّجَالِ وَالنِّسَاءِ وَالْوِلْدَانِ الَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا أَخْرِجْنَا مِنْ هَذِهِ الْقَرْيَةِ الظَّالِمِ أَهْلُهَا وَاجْعَلْ لَنَا مِنْ لَدُنْكَ وَلِيًّا وَاجْعَلْ لَنَا مِنْ لَدُنْكَ نَصِيرًا “So why is it, that you do not fight in the way of Allah, and for the abased among men, women, and children who say: ‘Our Lord, bring us out from this village whose people are harm doers, and give to us a guardian from You, and give to us a helper from You.” In the beginning, the verse invites to jihad in the path of God and immediately remarks on the oppressed and downtrodden who have been so oppressed by the hard-hearted enemy that they are content to leave their homes, and it seems that These two actually return to the same meaning, because helping such oppressed people is a clear example of “jihad for the sake of God”.

It is clear that this type of jihad is also a defensive jihad. (Defending the oppressed against the oppressors). The above three goals are the main purposes of Islamic jihad, although they can be divided into two parts (initial jihad and defensive jihad); but the soul of them all is defensive; for this reason, we do not find in the history of Islam that infidels are ready to live peacefully with Muslims and that Islam has rejected them.

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