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Islam, Muslim, and Jihad – what is the real definition?

Posted on September 30, 2008 by pathfortruth

Answers.com explains that the definition for muslim is the following:

“A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form of ‘Muslim’ is Muslimah (Arabic: مسلمة). Literally, the word means “one who submits to God)”. The word “Muslim” is the participle of the same verb of which “Islam” is the infinitive.[1]“

The word Islam is the following:

“The word Islam comes from the Arabic root slm meaning a Muslim is a person who submits to the order and peace that is the law of Allah as described in the holy book, the Qur’an.”

I have heard another definition for Islam – way of peace from the word salaam.  Is this just a bad misunderstanding?

The freedictionary.com has a similar definition:

“[Arabic 'islm, submission, from 'aslama, to surrender, resign oneself, from Syriac 'alem, to make peace, surrender, derived stem of lem, to be complete; see lm in Semitic roots.]“

I was also curious about the word Jihad – many say that it means “the struggle for what is right”  Is this true?

By following these definitions then it is by design that followers of Islam must submit to peace, and struggle for what is right and true by following God.

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  1. Belal, on October 31st, 2008 at 7:19 pm Said:

    “I have heard another definition for Islam – way of peace from the word salaam. Is this just a bad misunderstanding?”

    Hi there,

    I’m no linguist but basically as far as I know the triconsonantal root for Islam is s-l-m which is the same root for the word salam which means peace. The words are related, but as far as I’ve heard ‘Islam’ is closer to that Answers.com definition than ‘peace’ itself. I dunno if that helps, and how accurate it is, but yeah.

    And Jihad does mean to struggle for what is good, for example Jihad al-Nafs is struggling to improve yourself. The word is also used to refer to wars fought for the sake of Allah.

    http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=1&ID=4610&CATE=12 at the end of this question and answer post the shaykh gives an example of jihad.

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