Anyone have any idea what is Islam in the eyes of muslims?
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Peace on you...ISLAM comes from the root "slm" or "salama". The word ISLAM in reference to the faith is understood in Arabic as the:\n\nISLAM means =  Surrender "Give up evil and lusts - give in to the Creator" \nSubmission "Agree to the terms and conditions of being a servant of Almighty God"  \nObedience "Comply with His Commandments to the best of your ability"  \nSincerity "Do it all whether or not anyone else notices or cares." \nPeace "Accept what Almighty God gives you in this life in serenity."  \n\nAll of which come about only by giving up the Free Will of the nafs (self or ego) in favor of the Will of the Creator and Sustainer of All That Exists (ALLAH).\n\nThis would be similar to the teaching in the Lord's Prayer for the Christians, when Jesus, peace be upon him, taught his followers a prayer asking for "God's Will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven." (Matt. 6) \n\nISLAM is mention in the Quran as a "deen" or way of life of an individual. A complete way of living in balance with everything else in the creation of Almighty Allah. ISLAM provides inclusive instructions for everything including eating, sleeping, dealing in relationships, economics, politics, health, worship and even death. The entire universe is "IN ISLAM" because it is all a part of what has been created and is being sustained by Almighty Allah. \n\nNow let us consider the next logical question; "What does the term "Muslim" actually mean?"\n\nAgain, we must keep in mind that it is an Arabic word and is of course subject to the rules of the Arabic language. Actually, it is derived from the word ISLAM. Whereas, you might think of ISLAM as the verb or action and MUSLIM as the noun, or the one performing the action. In English whenever we have a noun performing a verb, we add the two suffix letters; ER. But in the Arabic language many times you will find that the prefix letters of MU are used for the same purpose.\n\nA few examples may help to better understand. We will compare the verb of each language to the one who is reforming the verb:\n\nMU - prefix for the verb  Preforming the verbs in ENGLISH    Preforming the verbs in ARABIC \nTravel =  TravelER    Safar =  MUsafar \nCall =  CallER    Adhan =  MUadhan \nPray = PrayER   Salah =  MUsalah \nSubmit =  Submit ER   Islam =  MUslim \nA "MUSLIM" is one who follows or practices the action of "ISLAM" \n\nIn English, when we understand the "ISLAM" is an action, we might say that anyone who "Islams" is an "Islam-ER." Right? We see in the chart above, in Arabic the "mu" preceding a verb indicates the same thing. Therefore, we would understand that the one who is actively doing the verb of "Islam" [submission to God] is a "Mu"-Islam or "Muslim."\n\nMake sense? \n\nNow, we should ask, "How does a person become a MUSLIM?"\n\nOnly when a person is willing to submit to the Commandments of the Higher Authority from Above, meaning to obey Allah on His terms as much as possible does he/she become a " MUSLIM."\n\nAllah Says in Quran, all of creation is in submission to Him (MUSLIM).
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of course...islam means "peace"...it guides us to love, tolerate..help..support..respect....help...be compassionate...and negotiate through peaceful means. the extremist version as potrayed by sum isnt islam. yet ppl from other religions n beliefs shud learn how to respect other faiths.
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Peace\n\n     I'm a Muslim... I love Islam for every thing it has, I too believe that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are all the same.\n\n   I wish the whole world can look at life the way we do. \n\nTry taking a look at the Quran, It has great scientific miracles, and it explains a lot of things that scientists are barely discovering.\n\n\nPeace, and love for all humanity, and God bless us all.
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don't know if it's true, but islam is at home in uk, like in my country France. they are everywhere home this people soI wouldn't be surprised !
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Islam means submission (to God's will)\nMuslim means one who submits.  Islam is the religion, a muslim is a practitioner of the religion
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Islam ... finally people started to know the truth from the fake ... \n\n\nIn the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful\n\n\n\n\n \n(( When comes the Help of Allah, and Victory, \n110.001\n \nAnd thou dost see the people enter Allah's Religion in crowds, \n110.002\n\nCelebrate the praises of thy Lord, and pray for His Forgiveness: For He is Oft-Returning (in Grace and Mercy).110.003 ))
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Islam is the only true religion.. it is not new, rather it is the only religion which all prophets of God taught, Adam, Noah, Moses, David, Jesus and Muhammed.. they all taught the same message which God is One, believe in Him and worship Him alone.. those prophets may have taught different laws and commandments, because those who those prophets were sent to were/are different.. the last laws which The God, or Allah -in Arabic- has willed for humanity are the Islamic laws which abrogated all the old commandments, like the Mosaic laws and the new laws which Jesus peace be upon him taught.. the commandments of Islam are uniquly suiting all men of all time, since Muhammed was the last messanger who God sent.. and since there will be no other prophets coming after him, and therefore no new laws to abrogate the Islamic laws.. and the Islamic laws may seem strict.. but when you give it more time, to see what Muslims scholars said about each laws.. and learn the wisdoms behind these laws, you may will come to see the big image.. which shows how The God knows exactly what we are in a need to, as you will see these laws perfect! .. \n\nPatience is the key to learn.. \n\npeace.
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http://members.iinet.net.au/~asmaazam/what_doyou_know.htm\n\nTHE RELIGION OF ISLAM The first thing that one should know and clearly understand about Islam is what the word \n\n"Islam" itself means. The religion of Islam is not named after a person as in the case of Christianity which was \n\nnamed after Jesus Christ, Buddhism after Gotama Buddha, Confucianism after Confucius, and Marxism after Karl Marx. \n\nNor was it named after a tribe like Judaism after the tribe of Judah and Hinduism after the Hindus. Islam is the \n\ntrue religion of "Allah" and as such, its name represents the central principle of Allah's "God's" religion; \n\nthe total submission to the will of Allah "God". The Arabic word "Islam" means the submission or surrender of one's \n\nwill to the only true god worthy of worship "Allah" and anyone who does so is termed a "Muslim",Islam is the \n\nreligion which was given to Adam, the first man and the first prophet of Allah, and it was the religion \n\nof all the prophets sent by Allah to mankind. The name of God's religion lslam was not decided upon by later \n\ngenerations of man. It was chosen by Allah Himself and clearly mentioned in His final revelation to man. In the \n\nfinal book of divine revelation, the Qur'aan, Allah states the following: "This day have I perfected your religion \n\nfor you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion". (Soorah Al-Maa'idah 5:3) "If \n\nanyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah (God) never will It be accepted of Him" (Soorah \n\nAal'imraan 3:85) "Abraham was not a Jew nor Christian; but an upright Muslim." (Soorah Aal'imraan 3:67)
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That should tell you something about islam.
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Islam\n"Surrender, submitting." Islam is the name of the true religion, according to the Qur'an. One who submits to God is a Muslim. The same root (*slm) as salam "peace." There are five or six central Islamic beliefs: monotheism, revelatory scriptures, angels, prophets, eschatology and (not always) predestination.
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The way the media paints Islam out to be, would be the best answer.\n\nThis society is purposefully "dumbed down".  For the most part, we do not read.  So what ever emotional driven image we see on the 10 o'clock news, or whatever Hollywood feeds us, is what we take as truth to form our opinions.\n\nLM
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If you need more info and wanna learn religion of islam, please visit www.themuslimcommunity.com , its a good islamic forum <<< you can ask question's to people there on the forum, they will answer your question regarding islam
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I dont think Islam respects anyone who doesnt see like they do, which may be true for other religions too, but "death to the infidels" is a uniquely Muslim idea that may bear upon the poor image.
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Westerners don't know nor do they care too much about Islam. But for most, when we first heard about the motivation of terrorists, we hear new words like "Jihad", "Allah", etc.\n\nThat's the first impressions for a lot of us. We didn't go looking for this "first impression", -some of Islam's "Jihadists" threw it on our doorstep.\n\nNow you ask westerners to accept a full clearer picture of what Islam is?? Then fine, -tell us how you condemn the barbaric practice of random murders and killing innocents.
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that is the nature of Islam
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Very good question...people don't realize Islam is the religion of many of the terrorists over there. Islam is supposed to be a peaceful religion, but right now they say they are in a Jihad (holy war), in which case I guess it's basically every man for himself. I know, lots of the terrorists don't claim a religion, but just as many cite Jihad as an excuse. FYI: there won't be any world peace until the end times.
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in fact u ve never can find it out ...cuz in some countries like IRAN which has the Islam as their religion ...most of all are muslim but in their life (as a secret )they all are agnostic....then u cant really find how many people really folowing islam