•Shekhar Gupta: Give me some examples. Because you talk to people around the world.

Zakir Naik: For example, as we were saying, the most misunderstood word in Islam is jihad.

•Shekhar Gupta: Right

Zakir Naik: People have a wrong notion, and they have the wrong information just by the television media etc, because as you know jihad originally, the Arabic word comes from the word jiddhu jehad, which means to strive and to struggle. That's it. It means to strive and to struggle

•Shekhar Gupta: Does it mean holy war?

Zakir Naik: It doesn't mean at all. This if you see that jiddhu jehad means to strive and to struggle, in Islamic context it means to strive and to struggle against own evil inclination, to strive and struggle to make the society better. Even if a person is striving and struggling in the battle to defend himself, it is called jihad. This word holy war was first used by the Christian crusaders. And now it's used for the muslims unfortunately. Because holy war, in Arabic if you translate means Harman mukkad dasa. The word Harman mukkad dasa doesn't appear anywhere in the Koran neither in the XXXXX (4 : 36: 45) of the Prophet.

•Shekhar Gupta: There are invocations for Muslims who rise in jihad eiher against the West, or in some places against India, or wherever. People who give these invocations haven't read their books right

Zakir Naik: Some may be right, some may be wrong

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