Islam and Ra

[meadow-foreigner]

I may be wrong about the following Muslim belief:

جهاد‎ jihād is an Arabic word which literally means striving or struggling, especially with a praiseworthy aim.
It is classified into inner ("greater") jihad, which involves a struggle against one's own base impulses, and external ("lesser") jihad, which is further subdivided into jihad of the pen/tongue (debate or persuasion) and jihad of the sword;

but I consider the inner struggle a much more difficult challenge to overcome than the external struggle. This is why modern psychologists seem to emphasize self-care and mindfulness, in contrast, and in comparison, to trying to change externalities.