This paper discusses the meaning of jihad in Islam. Jihad is one most discussed themes hadith Prophet. fact shows urgency term history development Islamic law. The understanding among Muslims varies, and its implementation varies Muslims. study at time Prophet's hadith. uses a descriptive literature research method using text that examines all texts about jihad. Then author also conducted compa...

T homas Merton, the American intellectual turned Trappist monk, recounts in The Seven Storey Mountain that his conversion to Catholicism was triggered by reading an account of a sermon in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a novel that draws from Joyce’s own departure from the faith. Merton fully recognizes the oddness and paradox of such a reading, but there was something, ...

" Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. "