Ghana: Jihad must promote goodwill, not violence, says Ahmadiyya executive

Muslims are dying of hunger whilst many rich Muslim countries sponsor extremist organizations like Abdullah Azzam Brigades, Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, Boko Haram, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabab, etc.

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: Ghana News Agency
By GNA | may 9, 2017

Alhaji Abdul-Wahab Issah, National Secretary of Tahrik-I-Jadid, Naib Afsah of Jalsa Planning Committee, Ghana, of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, says Jihad must only be promoted and supported if it promotes goodwill and not violence.

According to Alhaji Issah, “Jihad stands for a struggle, or striving to achieve a specific goal” adding that “Islam teaches that, to engage in jihad means to go the extra mile according to the means available to one to establish goodness and put away evil.”

He was the Guest Speaker at the Tema Circuit Conference of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission held at Tema Mosque. The conference which was on the theme, “Financial Sacrifice, A Jihad of our Time”, was organized to raise funds to purchase a cemetery plot for the circuit.

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Complements: The Times of Ahmad

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