Allah has ninety-nine beautiful names, such as: The Gracious, The Merciful, The Beneficent, The Creator, The All-Knowing, The All-Wise, The Lord of the Universe, The First, The Last, and many others. They pray in the language of the Qur’an, but supplications to God may be in any language.Īllah is the name of the One and Only God. Muslims all over the world try to learn Arabic so that they may be able to read the Qur’an and understand its meaning. The language of the Qur’an, the Holy Book of Islam, is Arabic.
Thus, Arab Muslims constitute only about twenty percent of the Muslim population of the world. While there are over one billion Muslims in the world, there are about 200 million Arabs, among whom about ten percent are not Muslim. Any person who adopts the Arab language as his or her mother tongue is called an Arab. An Arab may be a Muslim, a Jew, a Christian, an atheist, or part of any other belief system. Islam is not limited to any nationality or race.Īrabs, also, are not limited to only one religion. Muslims may be Arabs, or they may be Turks, Persians, Indians, Pakistanis, Indonesians, Europeans, Africans, Americans, Chinese, or any other nationality. We should not confuse Muslims with Arabs. The followers of Islam are called Muslims.
It means submission to the One God, as well as to live in harmony with other people and with the environment.Ī Muslim is, therefore, any person, anywhere in the world, whose obedience, allegiance and loyalty are to God, Lord of the Universe, and who strives to live in accordance with God’s laws. The word, however, means much more than just “peace”. In addition, one of the beautiful names of God is As-Salam, meaning “The Peace”. Salam is also part of the greeting of peace among Muslims. The name of this religion is Islam, the root of which, Silm or Salam, means peace. An introduction to basic Islamic belief and practices by Dr.
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