What is the meaning of Islam in english language?
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its came from the arabic word Salam ... and it means PEACE \n\nSo islam means look for the peace ...\n\nand muslim means be peacefull ....\n\nthats from the side of language i think as you want ..\n\nGOD/ALLAH bless u
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Yes\nIt is Islam.\n\nIslam, a name given by Allah to this religion (Quran 5:4), is an Arabic word which literally means obedience and peace. ISLAM is derived from the Arabic root "SALEMA": peace, purity, submission and obedience. So 'Islam' would mean the path of those who are obedient to Allah and who establish peace with Him and His creatures. Its follower are called Muslims.\n\nIslam is not a new religion. It is, in essence, the same message and guidance which Allah revealed to all prophets before Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. Allah says in the Qur’ân:\n\n"Say, `We believe in ALLAH and that which has been revealed to us, and that which was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and in that which was given to Moses and Jesus and other Prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them and to HIM we submit." (Qur’ân 3-85)\n\nSix main Articles of faith in Islam\n\nTo believe in the Oneness of Allah. \nTo believe in all His Angels. \nTo believe in all His Books. \nTo believe in all His Prophets. \nTo believe in the Day of Resurrection. \nTo believe in the Decree of Allah \n\nThe Five Pillars of Islam (Declaration of the Islamic Faith)\n\nIn order to enter into the fold of Islam i.e. to be Muslim, one has to know, believe, accept totally and sincerely apply the five basic principles (Pillars) on which Islam is based: Ibn Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allah - Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) said: Islam is based on the following five pillars (principles).\n\nBearing witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah \nObservance of Prayer \nPaying Zakat \nFasting during Ramadhan \nPilgrimage to the house of Allah.
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Islam is the religion of Peace
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Islam is a beautiful and highly misunderstood religion that has been tarnished by both the American media and the violent fundamentalists who both have tried to twist it into something it is most certainly not. Islam is a way of life based on peace and the search for God.\n\n  Below is a source I've used for most of my research on the Koran and the Islamic path.
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The word Islam is comparable to the word Christianity.  \n\nThe word Muslim is comparable to the word Christian.\n\nMuslims practice Islam and live in many countries.  I'm an American Muslim practicing Islam as well as I know how.  I have friends who are British Muslims, Pakistani Muslims, Canadian Muslims, Australian Muslims, Iraqi Muslims. . . . .\n\nDid that answer your question?  Let me know if you need more info - I'll not make fun of you for seeking knowledge.
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What is Islam? \n\nThe word "Islam" is an Arabic word that means "submitting and surrendering your will to Almighty God". The word comes from the same root as the Arabic word "salam", which means peace. Unlike the names used for other religions, such as Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity, the name “Islam” was both revealed by God and mentioned explicitly in the Holy Scripture – The Qur’an. Islam carries a deep spiritual meaning — only by submitting one’s will to Almighty God can one obtain true peace both in this life and in the life hereafter. Islam teaches that all religions originally had the same essential message — which was to submit whole-heartedly to the will of God and to worship Him and Him alone. For this reason, Islam is not a new religion but is the same divinely revealed Ultimate Truth that God revealed to all prophets, including Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus (peace be upon them all). \n\nWho are Muslims? \n\nThe Arabic word "Muslim" literally means "someone who submits to the will of God". The message of Islam is meant for the entire world and anyone who accepts this message becomes a Muslim. Some people mistakenly believe that Islam is just a religion for Arabs, but nothing could be further from the truth, since in actuality over 80% of the world's Muslims are not Arabs! Even though most Arabs are Muslims, there are Arabs who are Christians, Jews and atheists. If one just takes a look at the various peoples who live in the Muslim World — from Nigeria to Bosnia and from Morocco to Indonesia — it is easy enough to see that Muslims come from all different races, ethnic groups and nationalities. From the very beginning, Islam had a universal message for all people. This can be seen in the fact that some of the early companions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) were not only Arabs, but also Persians, Africans and Byzantine Romans. Being a Muslim entails complete acceptance and active obedience to the revealed will of Almighty God. A Muslim is a person who freely accepts to base his beliefs, values and faith on the will of Almighty God. In the past (even though you don't see it as much today), the word "Mohammedans" was often used as a label for Muslims. This label is a misnomer and is the result of either willful distortion or sheer ignorance. One of the reasons for the misconception is that Europeans were taught for centuries that Muslims worshipped the Prophet Muhammad in the same way that Christians worship Jesus. This is absolutely not true since a Muslim is not permitted to worship anyone or anything besides Almighty God. \n\nWho is Allah? \n\nVery often one will hear the Arabic word "Allah" being used in regards to Islam. The word "Allah" is simply the Arabic word for Almighty God, and is the same word used by Arabic speaking Christians and Jews. If one were to pick up an Arabic translation of the Bible, one would see the word "Allah" being use where the word "God" is used in English. Actually, the Arabic word for Almighty God, "Allah", is quite similar to the word for God in other Semitic languages — for example, the Hebrew word for God is "Elah". For various reasons, some non-Muslims mistakenly believe that Muslims worship a different God than Jews and Christians. This is certainly not the case, since the Pure Monotheism of Islam calls all people to the worship of the God of Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and all of the other prophets (peace be upon them). However, even though Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God — since there is only one true God — their concepts concerning Him differ in some significant ways. \n\nWho is Muhammad? \n\nThe last and final prophet that God sent to humanity was the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Muhammad explained, interpreted and lived the teachings of Islam. The Prophet Muhammad is the greatest of
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Islam is the words of Truth for sure.
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The first thing people in the west need to understand about Islam and the Islamic world is that Islam is a symbol used for exploitation by most of the people calling themselves as Muslims and not taken in the true letter-n-spirit.  The very word Islam means (according to Dictionary)"1. Peace, 2. Submission (To Allah/God). The second meaning is exactly what is the first meaning is if one reads the Quran (The Word of Allah/God) they will understand why some people use the first meaning and the second meaning. Although both the meanings are synonymous for people who are born in a "Muslim" community it becomes a misleading meaning for others who have never read or gone through the Quran. Having said this as far as the question for Muslim leadership is concern the people who claims to be Muslims most of them are themselves not aware of their religion "Islam" as they are divided into a number of sects, similar to those that exist in Christianity. However, since the people who claims to be Christians have learned to co-exist with other sects of their faith (after centuries of inter-faith conflicts and conflicts between the Church and the society) by disassociating their religion from their day to day affairs they are more at peace in other words living more in "Islam" then their counter parts the so-called "Muslims". It is, therefore, that there is no central leadership that exists in the "Muslim" world at present.  In their own countries even their divided leadership does at times issue statements against terrorism (as understood by the other half of the world), however, their statements never found space in your part of the world. This is because of a number of factors the first and the top most is that the very definition of the word ‘Terrorism’ holds different meanings for different people. For example when Hitler committed crimes against humanity to date despite the hatred against Hitler his work was never labeled as terrorism. When the combined allied forces devastated the German cities and cut them into two halves, raping and maiming millions of civilians the act was never seen as terrorism but was considered a response against Hitler's forces atrocities. When the US forces attacked Korean peninsula and killed many civilians in the name of fight against communism the war was neither termed as terrorism nor a fight against terrorism. When the Jews, supported by their European and US allies, carried out attacks and killings of innocent Palestinian people to drive them out of their homeland their campaign was never termed as terrorism. To date I am sure you do get to see a photograph or two of the Israeli atrocities committed both in "Israel" and Lebanon and in the rest of the world like attack on Iraqi Osirock nuclear plant and killing of Palestinian people all around the world are not termed as terrorism but an act of self defense and seen as their right for existence. When Iraq threatened Kuwait it was termed as terrorism when Israel threatened Iran it is termed as right to defend. When defenseless Palestinian children are killed in the arms of their fathers and mothers, as was shown live on TV, despite the fact that no sane person in the West ever acknowledged it as correct, no one even termed as terrorism either. When Indian forces occupies Kashmir and carries out genocide of defenseless Kashmiris it is termed as internal matter. When Kashmiris tries to retaliate it is called terrorism. When during WW-II the French Freedom Movement and the Italian Freedom fighters did the same against occupying Nazi forces it was never termed as terrorism. When Muslims are slaughtered in India during riots it is termed as isolated events of rioting among society and not as terrorism. Isn’t it strange how we use one word of dictionary to term a whole society a whole group of people as bigots, terrorists, un-educated and barbaric lot, whereas, on the other hand all the
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ISLAM\nThe religion of Islam is the acceptance of and obedience to the teachings of God which He revealed to His last prophet, Muhammad .\n\nSome Basic Islamic Beliefs\n1) Belief in God:\n\nMuslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped but Him alone.  He is the true God, and every other deity is false.  He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes.  No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes.  In the Quran, God describes Himself:\n\n Say, “He is God, the One.  God, to Whom the creatures turn for their needs.  He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none like Him.”  (Quran, 112:1-4)\n\nChapter 112 of the Quran written in Arabic calligraphy\n\nChapter 112 of the Quran written in Arabic calligraphy.\n\nNo one has the right to be invoked, supplicated, prayed to, or shown any act of worship, but God alone.\n\nGod alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the Sustainer of everything in the whole universe.  He manages all affairs.  He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His creatures depend on Him for all that they need.  He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing.  In a perfect manner, His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret, and the public and the private.  He knows what has happened, what will happen, and how it will happen.  No affair occurs in the whole world except by His will.  Whatever He wills is, and whatever He does not will is not and will never be.  His will is above the will of all the creatures.  He has power over all things, and He is able to do everything.  He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent.  In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad , we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than a mother to her child.1  God is far removed from injustice and tyranny.  He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees.  If someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him or her.\n\nGod is not Jesus, and Jesus is not God.2  Even Jesus himself rejected this.  God has said in the Quran:\n\n Indeed, they have disbelieved who have said, “God is the Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary.”  The Messiah said, “Children of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord.  Whoever associates partners in worship with God, then God has forbidden Paradise for him, and his home is the Fire (Hell).  For the wrongdoers,3 there will be no helpers.”  (Quran, 5:72)\n\nGod is not a trinity.  God has said in the Quran:\n\n Indeed, they disbelieve who say, “God is the third of three (in a trinity),” when there is no god but one God.  If they desist not from what they say, truly, a painful punishment will befall the disbelievers among them. Would they not rather repent to God and ask His forgiveness?  For God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.  The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary, was no more than a messenger...  (Quran, 5:73-75)\n\nIslam rejects that God rested on the seventh day of the creation, that He wrestled with one of His angels, that He is an envious plotter against mankind, or that He is incarnate in any human being.  Islam also rejects the attribution of any human form to God. All of these are considered blasphemous.  God is the Exalted.  He is far removed from every imperfection.  He never becomes weary.  He does not become drowsy nor does he sleep.\n\nThe Arabic word Allah means God (the one and only true God who created the whole universe).  This word Allah is a name for God, which is used by Arabic speakers, both Arab Muslims and Arab Christians.  This word cannot be used to designate anything other than the one true God.  The Arabic word Allah occurs in the Quran about 2700 times.  In Aramaic, a language related closely to Arabic and the language that Jesus habitually spoke,4 God is also referred to as Allah.\n2) Belief in the Angels:\n\nMuslims belie
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Islam today is Old Testament living.\n\nYou want to live in the middle east?\n\n\nEnough said.\n\n\n.
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In Arabic, "Mu" means someone who does..\n\nMuslims practice the religion of Islam\n...."Mu" + "Islam" = "Muslim"\n\nthis HAS to be a best answer....
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Islam itself is an aggressive religion. It feeds on anger and percieved injustice. The only thing it has any respect for is strength. That is why we need to support our President and show Islam that American has some real teeth and we will smoke you if you mess with us.
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Islam because it explains everything it says\nits not like how we see it in a media\nso I pick Islam
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i am a Muslim and i'm proud to say that Islam IS the way of life..it teach and guide us along the journey of every ones life. If we do practice it sincerely and deeply, we WILL find the true meaning of this life and what are the responsibilities goes with that..Islam it self is peace loving religion..and some people have tarnished the good name of Islam..hope Allah s.w.t will always guide us with His light and Mercy...Amin
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Islam is a works based religion invented by a man that was unhappy with the idol worship going on around him. Man has always looked for a way to reach God under his own power. Christianity is faith based. Where we believe in the power of Christs death, burial, and Resurrection to reach God.
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Islam.\n\nAnd congratulations, this is my 2000th answer!
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The English language is a strange and wonderful thing. Be careful how you use it.\n\nTerrorism is defined as: The unlawful use or threat of violence by a person or group with the intention of intimidating societies or governments for political reasons.\n\nGod, as the source of truth and law, can not do anything "unlawful." He (or She) is truly above the law.\n\nWith love in Christ.