What Kind of Jidal Is Approved by Quran?
Islam pays attention not only to man’s personal issues but also to his social relations. In Islam, how to interact with others verbally and otherwise is very important. Truthfulness, trustworthiness, good temperedness, and the like are moral virtues that are emphasized in Islam while it forbids moral vices like lying, unfaithfulness, slander, libel, etc.
Jidal is also sometimes frowned upon in Islam. It is related to one’s verbal interaction with others. This interaction sometimes manifests itself as a disease of the tongue that needs to be cured.
In ethics, Jidal refers to fierce arguing with someone in order to dominate him. There may be a divine or a personal and evil purpose behind it.
If the purpose is evil, the person tries to gain superiority over another person in the argument in order to gain position or wealth, etc. If the purpose is divine, one tries to guide a person who is ignorant.
The issue of Jidal is mentioned in the verses of the Quran in two ways. Some verses disapprove of Jidal, like Verse 4 of Surah Ghafir: “No one disputes the revelations of the Lord except the disbelievers.”
Some other verses approve of and even order Jidal, like Verse 125 of Surah An-Nahl: “Call (the pagans) to the path of your Lord through wisdom and good advice and argue with them in the best manner. God knows well about those who stray from His path and those who seek guidance.”
One might think that there is a contradiction between these two, but a careful study of them shows that the Quran rejects the kind of Jidal that has evil purposes, but approves of Jidal with divine purposes.
The Jidal that is rejected by the Quran is rooted in ugly qualities within. The source of this Jidal is such qualities as anger, love of the world, and conceit.
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It has negative consequences such as causing hypocrisy, lying and enmity. One who enters Jidal without having enough ability for it may resort to lying in order to defend his argument and sometimes he may tell the other person that he is right just out of hypocrisy.
There are two ways to cure the Jidal that is rejected by wisdom and religion. One is to remember its negative results and the other is to develop respect for others.
