Why do Muslims call Islam the Religion of Peace?

In order to gain a proper understanding of many verses in the Holy Quran, it is important to understand and know the historic context of the revelations. 1. Islam teaches us that Allah attempted reach Muslims through 24 prophets prior to Muhammad.

According to Muslim historical documents and artifacts, ALL prophets were totatlly and completely rejected by Muslims. This fact, historically, is down played as not important...but when you conclude that Allah attempted to reach you for about 2400 years with 24 prophets, that fact is significant. 2.

Allah is merciful and Muhammad was a faithful servant. 3. Those who seized power after the prophet's death where not real Muslims.

They dishonored the prophet instead of following Shraia Law. It makes no sense that the prophet would marry widows of the war in order to provide for them duringhis life only to make them beggars who could never remarry at his death. No, the prophet would not want us to emulate this.

4. Qurans were burned because they didn't exactly match the ones who disrespected the prophet's wives and didn't follow Sharia law. Yet, today there are Qurans written in 100 + different languages which cannot be considered verbatim from God.

Which one proves the corruption of the Qurran? If it is right to burn Quran's not exactly matching the Quran held by those who ceased power, then true Muslims need to burn all Qurans today that don't exactly for the same reasons they did. If they were wrong in their reasoning to burn Qurans that didn't exactly match theirs, then understand that the corruption of Islam started immediately after the prophet died.

5. Since Allah is merciful and gives us more than enough and Muhammad faithful who did all that Allah instructed, then Islam was complete at the death of the prophet. It is incomprehensible to suggest that non-prophets who immediately violated Sharia law could add something to Islam that Allah in His mercy and Muhammad in his faithfulness to Allah had not given us.

Yet this is what the hadith is...pure and simple...followers of the hadith must believe that Allah didn't provide everything we needed abundantly and so the hadith makes up for what Allah refused to provide. Hope this helps.

Islam does not mean peace. Lissan al-Arab, one of the most authoritative lexicons of the Arabic language, mentions that: the word 'Islam' is derived from the root verb istaslama (?); which means 'to submit' or 'give in' or 'surrender', while the term salam (?) means peace, a truce, or a non-warring state.

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