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ghazwa refers to safar, or peaceful travel. According to
a hadith:

A group of my ummah shall go for a
campaign in Hind and it has been saved
from Hell. (Sunan an-Nasa’i, hadith no.
3175)

This safar or ‘campaign’ can be of anything. It could even
be of education or social welfare or for the purpose of
spreading the peaceful message of Islam.

5 To what extent are Islam and
secularism reconcilable?

slam and secularism are fully compatible. As per the
IEncyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, secularism is
a policy of non-interference in religious matters. In a
secular government, every religious community has the
right to follow its own faith. This was demonstrated
even by the Prophet Muhammad when he drafted the
Madinah Charter, according to which different religious
groups were allowed to have their own personal law.
The true meaning of secular personal law has been
alluded to in the following verse of the Quran, according
to which, people of other faiths could follow their own
Holy Books to judge their matters:

We have revealed the Torah, in which there
is guidance and light. By it the prophets
who were obedient to Us judged the Jews,

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