This may be an ignorant question but what is the difference between Jihad and Taliban?

Question

What are these two groups? Are the related?

Answer 1

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim - In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Hello. The word Jihad comes from the Arabic root meaning "struggle". A jihad can mean a struggle to be better person, which is an internal struggle of the heart, or it can mean an outward battle, such as fighting against those who are oppressing you and not allowing you to practice your religion. The Afghanis were making Jihad against the Soviets because the Soviets were trying to oppress them, invaded their country, attacked their women, and slaughtered the men. Wars of aggression are not allowed in Islam and those do not qualify as jihad, all the protestations of warmongers to the contrary.

The Talibaan (meaning "students") is a group of people in Afghanistan who want to completely institute Islamic Law in their country. I applaud their desire to live according to the Qur'an and Sunnah, but I feel that they use clumsy means to attempt to fulfill this goal. The result is as you see it today; Afghanistan is a narco-state farther away from Islam than ever before. May Allah guide those people and help them to repent from planting this murderous crop, Ameen.

May Allah guide you to that which is best in this world and the next. Ameen.

Fi Aman Allah,

Nancy Umm Abdel Hamid

Answer 2

The mother giving birth and raising a child is a JIHAD ?

Feeding the poor is a Jihad

Helping the orphan is a Jihad

Speaking out against injustice is a Jihad

The mother carrying a child is a Jihad

Helping the oppressed is a Jihad

Going on the Pilgrimage is a Jihad

Self defense is a Jihad

Supporting and helping ones parents is a Jihad

“Prayer (Salaat) is the BEST Jihad” ?

Any effort/struggle to promote the good and oppose the evil is a Jihad.

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Answer 3

Jihad is quite a broad term
meaning spiritual struggle

the Taliban are a group of people who take this to the extreme and very literally

Answer 4

Jihad means holy war, Taliban is a group.

Answer 5

Taliban is a group accurate afganstan for some years
but jihad is a an Islamic practice
the popular thinking that jihad is to force infidels to convert to Islam but it is not true
if some one take of your home ,kill your children and rape your woman you must defense yourself and your country
this jihad
Allah said in Quran :
no force in the religion
and the prophet Mohamed said :
don`t kill neither woman ,child, old man nor priest

Answer 6

Jihad is the actual Holy War itself. The Taliban is the organization.

Answer 7

JIHAD DOES NOT LITERALLY MEAN HOLY WAR!
http://www.mediamonitors.net/shaziamirza2.html
http://www.dma.org/~ganotemd/jihad.htm

Answer 8

"Jihad" is defined as some kind of "holy war" (although to me those two words never belong together). The Taliban are a fundamentalist Islamic organization that practice "jihad" to attempt to achieve their goals. That's the difference - they are related, just not exactly the same thing.

Answer 9

taliban is a group of people who take the bible / koran literally and follow it's command to jihad or holy wars when they can't get their way

jihad is an edict

taliban is a group who issues it

Answer 10

Jihad: Spiritual Struggle (parenting, caring for sick family members and fighting in wars as well)

Taliban: One of many feuding groups in Afghanistan, it is political and not religious.