What is the relation to Islam and Muslims? Is Islam what their religion is called?

Question

What is the relation to Islam and Muslims? Is Islam what their religion is called?

Answer 1

Islam is the religion, muslims are the follower of Islam.

Answer 2

Islam - In Arabic, the word means "surrender" or "submission" to the will of God. Thename of a religion founded by Muhammad in ancient Arabia in the 7th century.  The religious faith of Muslims

Muslims - Followers of Islam. There are 1 billion Muslims in the world and 6 million in the United States. Also known to most medieval people as Saracens.

  

Answer 3

islam come before Adam it is since the creation of all the universe

ISLAM comes from the root "slm" or "salama". The word ISLAM in reference to the faith is understood in Arabic as the:

ISLAM means

Surrender"Give up evil and lusts - give in to the Creator"

Submission "Agree to the terms and conditions of being a servant of Almighty God"

Obedience "Comply with His Commandments to the best of your ability"

Sincerity "Do it all whether or not anyone else notices or cares."

Peace "Accept what Almighty God gives you in this life in serenity."

All 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).

This 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)

ISLAM 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.

Now let us consider the next logical question; "What does the term "Muslim" actually mean?"

Again, 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.

A few examples may help to better understand. We will compare the verb of each language to the one who is reforming the verb:

MU - prefix for the verb

Preforming the verbs in ENGLISH

Preforming the verbs in ARABIC

Travel = TravelER

Safar = MUsafar

Call = CallER

Adhan = MUadhan

Pray = PrayER

Salah = MUsalah

Submit = Submit ER

Islam = MUslim

A "MUSLIM" is one who follows or practices the action of "ISLAM"

In 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."

Make sense?

Answer 4

Islam is the name of the religion. Islamic refers to things related to the religion. Muslims are practitioners of the Islamic faith.

For your reference, here's a bit more information for you...

A hadj is a pilgrimage to the Holy City Mecca, a hadjii is a pilgrim.

s**+'a, Sunni, Ahmadiyya, and Suffism are the major sects of Islam.

The Holy book of Islam is the Koran which is thought of as the word of Allah (God) as transcribed by Mohammed.