If the greatest aim is to win the jihad over the self (the jihad over the self being the major jihad, ranked higher even the jihad in battle), how do we do that? This is where the understanding of submission, and the resulting acceptance of martyrdom, assists. If man understands that he has to free himself of all attachment to the material world and all that it entails, and turn to God, seeking only closeness to Him, then he loses all his worldly concerns.