In orthodox Islamic law, jihad is a collective religious obligation on the Muslim community, when the community is endangered or Muslims are subjected to oppression and subjugation.
No doubt, some of the problem stems from a general weakening in our collective obligations to good citizenship.
It will give more freedom to the individual and strengthen the bonds of collective obligations.
It would require us to consider our larger, collective obligation to the national economy.
It is founded on authentic manifestations of Jewish creativity, ancient and modern, particularly those that stress inwardness and desire to learn what God expects from us: justice and equality, democracy and peace, personal fulfillment and collective obligations.
Our immediate collective obligation is to stop the killing.
His experiences of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath moved him away from distinctive, privately focused work in the direction of collective obligation.
One reason they feel less obliged is that they have created a welfare state to meet their collective obligations.
The law given at Sinai, the law embedded in the covenant, is not the expression of individual aspiration but only of collective obligation.
We have a collective obligation to produce results.