Jihad

Types of Jihad There are many types of jihad some of them are these
1.Jihad an nafs
2.Jehad an shetan
3.jihad against munafqin
4.Physical jihad

1. Jihad an-nafs (jihad against one’s self) is of four kinds:
  Striving to learn the teachings of Islam without which one cannot attain success and happiness in this world or in the Hereafter. If this is missing, then one is doomed to misery in this world and in the Hereafter.

2.Jihad ash-Shaytan (jihad against Satan) is of two types:
a. Warding off the doubts that Satan stirs up to undermine faith.
b. Striving against Satan to ward off the corrupt desires that he provokes.
The first jihad is followed by certainty of faith, and the second is followed by patience. Allah says: “And We made from among them [Children of Israel], leaders, giving guidance under Our Command, when they were patient and used to believe with certainty in Our Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.)” (As-Sajdah: 24)
Allah tells us that leadership in religion is attained through patience and certainty of faith. Patience wards off desires and certainty wards off doubts.
3. Jihad against the munafiqin (hypocrites) and kuffar (disbelievers) is of four kinds: with the heart, the tongue, one’s wealth and oneself. Jihad against the disbelievers is more along the lines of physical fighting, whereas jihad against the hypocrites is more along the lines of using words and ideas.

Fourth: Physical jihad against the disbelievers becomes obligatory in four cases, which are:
1. When the Muslim is present in a jihad situation.
2. When the enemy has come and attacked a Muslim land
3. When the ruler mobilizes the people, they must respond.
4. When a person is needed and no one else can do the task except him.
Sheikh Ibn `Uthaymin said:
Jihad is obligatory and becomes fard `ayn if a person is present where fighting is going on. This is the first of the situations in which jihad becomes an individual...