What is the difference between jihad and qital in the Holy Quran, and what is the difference between madinah (city) and qaryah (village) in the Quran, especially in Surat Al-Kahf regarding His saying, the Almighty: "Until, when they came to the people of a town, they asked them for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. And they found therein a wall about to collapse, so he set it upright. [Moses] said, "If you had wished, you could have taken for it a payment," and His saying, the Almighty: "And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and underneath it was a treasure belonging to them, and their father had been righteous. So your Lord willed that they reach maturity and extract their treasure, as a mercy from your Lord. And I did not do it of my own accord. That is the interpretation of that about which you could not have patience"?
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Fighting is an effective source of killing, and it involves the intention to kill, whether that is achieved or not. Al-Jassas defined it as "hindering something in a way that leads to killing." As for jihad, it is more general than fighting. It may come to mean fighting, or it may come with other meanings that do not involve killing. The words "city" (madinah) and "village" (qaryah) may also carry the same meaning, as stated in the verse: "And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city," where the city is the village mentioned previously.
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