Saif Ali Khan - Ready For His Jihad

Karan Johar’s Jihad, has been an eye-opening experience for Saif Ali Khan, who’s been reading Islamic literature and the holy book to prepare for his role. The film has Saif playing a fundamentalist and a covert jehadi who dresses up suavely in Armani suits and hence is difficult to suspect, detect or catch. And researching for the role revealed several unexpected facts to Saif, as he claims.

Firstly, Saif says the most important thing he learnt was that the word ‘Allah’ doesn’t mean a Muslim God, but is rather the Arab word for ‘one true God’. Saif’s observation couldn’t have been more correct. For even Muslim scholars like Mehru Jaffer feel that the word Allah shares common root with words used for the ‘Almighty’ in the Middle East for thousands of years – for example, the word for the ancient Canaanites was Elat, in Aramaic it was Alaha, and in Hebrew it was Elohim.

The second thing that Saif has learnt about is the anger of the Muslim world towards the American foreign policy. “My character in Rensil’s film has become the way he has because of the way Americans have treated Afghanistan and other Islamic states,” Saif is quoted as saying in a media report. Source