Think about the word ''Muslims'' means he who surrenders themselves to almighty God, and obeys the laws of almighty God. Everything that surrenders to the law of almighty God is a Muslim. So when a child comes out of the womb of its mother at the time God had ordered, what is it? It’s a Muslim. When the sun goes around in its orbit, what is it? It’s a Muslim. When a moon goes around the sun, what is it? It’s a Muslim. The law of gravity, what is it? It’s a Muslim law. Everything that submits to the almighty God is a Muslim. Therefore, when we obey almighty God, we are Muslims.

Jesus Christ was a Muslim. His blessed mother was a Muslim. Abraham was a Muslim. Moses was a Muslim. All the prophets were Muslims.

They came to their people and spoke different languages.The prophet Muhammad spoke the language of Arabic. And so in the Arabic language submit and surrender is Muslim. The one who submits and surrenders is a Muslim. Every prophet and messenger of almighty God brought the very same and fundamental message – worship almighty God and be sincere towards him.

If we examine the message of each of the well-known prophets, we can easily conclude this side. Where there is a conflict, it is a result of false expression, fabrication, exaggeration, personalized interpretations of alleged writers, historians, scholars and individuals.

For instance, how come throughout the Old Testament, God is always referred to as one, the master, the lord and king of the universe. And that in the 1st commandment given to Moses, he did not allow anybody to worship any graven images. All the prophets said he was one and that he was the almighty God. Throughout the Old Testament, it’s completely repeated. Then all of a sudden, we get four testimonials .The four Gospel called Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Matthew who? Mark who? Luke who? John who? Four different gospels that were written 48 years apart, and none of these men, who did not collaborate with each other, none of them wrote their last name. If I gave you a check for your pay this month, and I wrote my first name on the check and tell you to take it to the bank, would you accept that check? No you wouldn’t. If a policeman stopped you and asked for your license and you only had your first name, would it be acceptable to him? Could you get a passport with your first name? Did your parents give you only one name? Where in the history of men, is one name accepted as documentation? Nowhere except in the Bible. And how could you base your faith upon four gospels that are written by four men who didn’t seem to know their last name.

Then after those four gospels, there are fifteen more books, written by a man, who was an apostate, who killed Christians, tortured Christians and then said that he in a vision saw Jesus and he was commissioned as an apostle of Jesus.

If I told you, that Hitler after he killed all the Jews, then he himself decided that he wanted to be a saints and he meet Christ or Moses on the path and he became a Jew and he wrote fifteen books and added them to the Torah. Would that be acceptable to the Jews? No they wouldn’t accept that. So how can four books without a last name and fifteen other books that’s written by another man – and this is the first time that God is called a man and the first time that God is called three, and the first time God is given a son, then how would be acceptable to the Christians? How? Think about it.We won’t argue that point, I have just given you something to think about.

Advent of Prophet Muhammad

The advent of Prophet Muhammad did not bring a new religion or a new way of life as some people claim.On the contrary, the prophet Muhammad confirmed the life and message of all the previous prophets and messengers, both through his personal conducts, and through the divine revelation that he received from the almighty.The sacred scripture that Muhammad (Peace be upon him) brought is called Al-Qur’an.It means that which is recited because Muhammad (Peace be upon him) did not write the Qur’an.He did not author the Qur’an.Nobody came and helped him to write it and nobody collaborated with him to help.But the angel Gabriel recited to him and almighty God made his heart a receptacle of that.Just like a satellite dish, is a receptive of waves and gives you the TV image.The prophet Muhammad’s heart was a receptacle of revelations and we have this Qur’an that has been preserved for fifteen hundred years without a change of a dot.

Is there any other book in the world that you know of that has been preserved as it was revealed without a changing even a dot? No book! Only the Qur’an. Don’t take my world for it.Go to the library and read what the encyclopaedia Britannica or any other universal encyclopaedia of the world that has not been written by a Muslim – read what is says about Islam, the Qur’an and Muhammad.Read what non Muslims said about the Qur’an, Islam and Muhammad.Then you will accept that what I am saying is universally documented and clear.That Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is the most profound individual in the history of humanity.Profound why? Read what they say.

That the Qur’an is the most incredible, the most profound piece of literature in the annals of history. Read what they say.

That is Islamic way of life, is categorized and so precise and dynamic, it has never changed. Read what they say.

The sacred scripture that Muhammad (Peace be upon him) received is called the Qur’an.And each of the prophets and messengers, they also received a scripture.And in the Qur’an, these prophets, their scripture, their stories, the principles of their mission, is mentioned with profound details.Did Muhammad (Peace be upon him) meet them and eat with them and talk with them and collaborate with them to write their biographies? No of course he didn’t.In the Qur’an Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is referred to as the messenger of almighty God and the seal of the previous prophets which is the limit of his role as a human being.Muslims do not worship Muhammad.We are not Mohammedans.We do not have the right to take the name of Muhammad to say we are Mohammedans.People who followed Moses were not Moseians.People who followed Jacob were not Jacobites.People who followed Abraham were not Abrahamians. People who followed David were not Davidians.

So how the people call themselves Christians? Christ did not call himself a Christians.Christ said that whatever he received from almighty God and the order of God and what he heard and this is what he said and this is what he did.So how we call ourselves Christians? We have to be Christ-like.And what was Christ like? He was a servant of almighty God so you should be servants of almighty God.

And as the final scripture and divine revelation, Qur’an makes it very clear and concise statement: <This day I have perfected your religion and completed my favour upon you and chosen Islam as a complete way of life.> So through the Qur’an the word ''Islam'' came.As a word “Islam”, it came in the Qur’an.Because when the building is completed, you call it a house.When the car is on the assembly line, it is not an automobile.It is in the process of assembly. When it has been completed, it has been certified, it has been test-driven, it is now an automobile.

When Islam was completed as a revelation as a book, as an example through the prophet Muhammad, it then became Islam.It became a complete way of life.So it is the word that was new but not the practice, not the prophets, not the order from God. Not a new God, not a new revelation but only the name Islam.

Another distinction to keep in mind is that, Muhammad unlike his predecessors, did not come to the Arab or to this own people exclusively. Therefore Islam is not a religion of the Arabs, it is not for the Arabs. Yes; Muhammad the son of Abdullah was born in Mecca, a city in the Arabian Peninsula. And certainly he was an Arab by verse.

Consequences of his birth was the choice of the almighty. Additionally the Qur’an was revealed in the Arabic language to protect it, to make it pure and clear and precise. Yet the Qur’an dispelled any information that the message of Muhammad was limited or meant for the Arab exclusively. Allah says: & you have not been sent O Muhammad, except to the whole of humanity as a warner, as the one bringing glad tidings.

Source: Islamiclife