“We think of Jihad in Al-Islam that it means struggle. Jihad has also been published as holy war in Al Islam. It is a holy war to hold on to my good nature when I’m tempted to do wrong on every side, and everywhere I look there is temptation all around.

That is holy war. The fight to keep my good nature that is the holy war. That is the holiest of wars.  To succeed in business as a small person is Jihad. You are not going to succeed unless you struggle and you can’t fear anything but failing your high principals or failing your G-d. You should not fear anything else.

As long as you know that what you are doing or have to do is pleasing to your best nature and your best principles or to your G-d, you should not let anything turn you around.

You should not let anything weaken your faith to follow my Imam. My first Imam is Prophet Mohammed (May the Peace and blessing of G-d be upon him), to whom the Qur’an was revealed. And that is every Muslim’s first Imam.  But I’m talking about this spirit in me that follows Mohammed (May the Peace and blessing of G-d be upon him) the Prophet that I call my Imam too.”

“To follow my Imam, W. Deen Mohammed, you have to be strong not weak. This is not for the weak. This is for the strong.
You can’t let a new challenge knock the wind out of you and say “Well I thought that was all I had to do. Now here he comes with some more sacrifices. I have sacrificed enough.”  It is never enough until you have your life right for your soul. You may say it is enough, but your soul is going to make you miserable because your soul hasn’t been satisfied yet.

We live with our souls all the time, 24 hours everyday. But occasionally we have to wake up to our collective soul. To the soul and spirit of all of us.
And it makes us hurt inside to know that we are still a long way from achieving what our life wants us to achieve so our collective soul will be at peace.”

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Whether the west cringes at the word jihad, or the words holy war, a commitment to execute these words in American is not a new threatening challenge for her.

On the contrary.

Once explained by the greatest Muslim mind ever produced in the 21st century between the shores of the United States America, Imam W. Deen Mohammed, Jihad becomes a word whose meaning most good Christians and Jews can accept and see, they are already embracing.

Al-Hamdulillah!