Jihad in the Qur’an is the moral struggle to do good, and the Prophet is said to have defined it as speaking the word of truth to a tyrant
Asma Afsaruddin
Asma Afsaruddin is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures in the School of Global & International Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington and the author of Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought (Oxford University Press, 2013)