How did the word Muslim come about?
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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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Well, must say some very creative ansers here! Islam doesn't claim a name to any original language, or not to my knowledge anyways. The original language of Islam was Arabic, but not of mankind. Both Arabic and Hebrew stemmed from Aramaic, which came from another language, which came from another.... so Hebrew also is not the original language of mankind, nor of Abraham, as it is believed that even Jesus spoke Aramaic, not Hebrew.\n\nSo basically nothing in Islam lays a claim to that question, and to be honest, I don't believe that question has ever been asked, so I gotta give kudos for going beyond the normal boundaries and for such creativity!
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The Jews call `Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah.... ....This phrase comes directly from Koran. It is obviuos that Mohamad wrote the Koran, not God. the Jews means all jews, just like the christians means all christians. I dont think God made such a big mistake....Koran never said some of the Jews, or some of the Christians. He clearly meant ALL.....
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What a funny discovery. How could they do that to christians. They should not interprete it like that. Did dictionary.com develop by muslim? Or is it you who add the new word?
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I think it still is used for the same thing in some regions today.\nThe word Mufti is an Arabic word and borrowed into the English language by British soldiers in India.\n\nThe word Mufti is a muslim legal official who interprets Shariah law, when the English soldiers preparing for sleep in India dressed in slippers, cap and night-robe they appeared to be dressed the same way a muslim Mufti was, hence the word was borrowed into English.\n\nThe Mufti issues legal judgements in Shariah law called fatwas.\n\nInitially the English usage of mufti meant a soldier not in uniform, but today it means any non-uniform dress or any non standard dress such as wearing jeans and a t-shirt in an office where business dress standards are the norm.
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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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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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allah...the muslim god was named after him.
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Can't say I heard one from any Muslims unless they were in a political position and had to do it to save face. Islam is a very agressive religion. Of all of the wars/conflicts in the world, something like 95% of the at least ONE if not BOTH sides are Muslim.
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Moslem and Muslim is one and the same word just different spelling and it describes a person who is the follower of the religion of Islam.\n\nMiddle Eastern countries:\nAlgeria\nBahrain\nEgypt\nIran\nIraq\nJordan\nKuwait\nLebanon\nLibya\nMorocco\nOman\nPalestine\nQatar\nSaudi Arabia\nSudan\nSyria\nTunisia\nTurkey\nUnited Arab Emirates\nYemen\n\nAs regards to the Americans and the UK, Arabs do not hate the American or Englis population at all but it is against some of the governments policies especially when it treats the Arabs unfairly and unjustly but as a previous poster mentioned Islam means peace and it is a peaceful religion and is willing to join forces with every single person or nation whether it is rich/poor, strong/weak, Muslim/non-Muslim or whatever as it previously did with Israel as long as the other party is willing to listen and act fairly and keep to its word and promises.
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I am muslim and I live in an Islamic country actually a very little number of muslims do that. and believe me the beard has never been a sign of being muslim or not.  Some muslims just do it to show that they are more religious as Prophet Muhamed said and this is called (Sunnah)  . All what matters in Islam is to believe that Allah is the only God and that Muhammed is his prophet and also to believe that The Holly Quran is the word of God.
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This one is pretty easy-It's definitely Islam.\n\nThe Islamic religion, which originated in the western Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century, predominates in most Arab nations. Forms of both major divisions of Islam—the Sunni and the various Shia sects—can be found in the Arab countries. Almost everywhere, nationalism, which emerged in the late 19th century, is an important force. Nationalists sometimes use the Islamic religious tradition as an ideological tool to justify the power of the ruling class.
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I suppose it is a question of identity. You identify Islam with the language in which the Quran is written and spoken by the holy prophet; therefore you identify yourself with beautiful names derived from the language. (Operative word there; beautiful)\n\nHaving said that, not all arabic names are necessarily Islamic and not all Islamic names are of arabic origin. Names of prophets such as Ishaq, Yaakub, Yusuf, Yunus, Ayyub, Musa, Harun, Ilyas, Ilyasa', Zakariyya, Yahya, Isa are Hebrew names. \nMuslims in China and India use their ethnic surnames together with their given names. There are equally as many Johans, Julias, Julianas and Lindas among Muslims in the Far East as there are in the West. \n\nBut as they say, these are names by which you would be called on Judgment Day. So, perhaps, one might want to identify oneself with one's lot. Or otherwise, make it beautiful.
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i dont know ...but for arabs we use thats word what ever where christians or muslims ...\n\nGod/Allah bless u all
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it's muslim. Moslem is anglicised.
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It's where the religion began. Mecca is in Arabia, and that's where Mohammed is from. Mecca is their Jerusalem.
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Islam originated in the Middle East, in present day Saudi Arabia. It was founded by Mohammed, in 571 AD. Its holy text is known as the Qu'ran.