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What is Islam¿

ISLAM AND MUSLIM

The name of this religion is Islam, the root of which is Silm and Salam which
means peace. Salam may also mean greeting one another with peace. One of the
beautiful names of God is that He is the Peace. It means more than that:
submission to the One God, and to live in peace with the Creator, within one's
self, with other people and with the environment. Thus, Islam is a total system
of living. A Muslim is supposed to live in peace and harmony with all these
segments; hence, a Muslim is any person anywhere in the world whose obedience,
allegiance, and loyalty are to God, the Lord of the Universe.

MUSLIMS AND ARAB

The followers of Islam are called Muslims. Muslims are not to be confused with
Arabs. Muslims may be Arabs, Turks, Persians, Indians, Pakistanis, Malaysians,
Indonesians, Europeans, Africans, Americans, Chinese, or other nationalities.
An Arab could be a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew or an atheist. Any person who
adopts the Arabic language is called an Arab. However, the language of the
Qur'an (the Holy Book of Islam) is Arabic. Muslims all over the world try to
learn Arabic so that they may be able to read the Qur'an and understand its
meaning. They pray in the language of the Qur'an, namely Arabic. Supplications
to God could be in any language.
While there are one billion Muslims in the world there are about 200 million
Arabs. Among them, approximately ten percent are not Muslims. Thus Arab Muslims
constitute only about twenty percent of the Muslim population of the world.
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ALLAH THE ONE AND THE ONLY GOD

Muslims believe that Allah is the name of the One and Only God. He is the
Creator of all human beings. He is the God for the Christians, the Jews, the
Muslims, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the atheists, and others. Muslims worship
God whose name is Allah. They put their trust in Him and they seek His help and
His guidance.

MUHAMMAD

Muhammad was chosen by God to deliver His Message of Peace, namely Islam. He was
born in 570 C.E. (Common Era) in Makkah, Arabia. He was entrusted with the
Message of Islam when he was at the age of forty years. The revelation that he
received is called the Qur'an, while the message is called Islam.
Muhammad is the very last Prophet of God to mankind. He is the final Messenger
of God. His message was and is still to the Christians, the Jews and the rest of
mankind. He was sent to those religious people to inform them about the true
mission of Jesus, Moses, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham.
Muhammad is considered to be the summation and the culmination of all the
prophets and messengers that came before him. He purified the previous messages
from adulteration and completed the Message of God for all humanity. He was
entrusted with the power of explaining, interpreting and living the teaching of
the Qur'an.

NON-MUSLIMS

Muslims are required to respect all those who are faithful and God conscious
people, namely those who received messages. Christians and Jews are called
People of the Book. Muslims are asked to call upon the People of the Book for
common terms, namely, to worship One God, and to work together for the solutions
of the many problems in the society.
Christians and Jews lived peacefully with Muslims throughout centuries in the
Middle East and other Asian and African countries. The second Caliph Umar, did
not pray in the church in Jerusalem so as not to give the Muslims an excuse to
take it over. Christians entrusted the Muslims, and as such the key of the
Church in Jerusalem is still in the hands of the Muslims.
Jews fled from Spain during the Inquisition, and they were welcomed by the
Muslims. They settled in the heart of the Islamic Caliphate. They enjoyed
positions of power and authority.
Throughout the Muslim world, churches, synagogues and missionary schools were
built within the Muslim neighborhoods. These places were protected by Muslims
even during the contemporary crises in the Middle East


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