The word Islam is derived from the Arabic root
“Salama”, which means among other things: Peace, Purification, Submission, and obedience. In the religious sense, the word Islam means submission to the Will of God and by obedience to His Law one can achieve true peace, inwardly and outwardly, and thus enters the realm of Peace, which is Islam. By the way Peace is one of the Divine names. Islam, submission to the will of God and obedience to His Law, does not in any way mean the loss of individual freedom or surrender to fatalism. On the opposite, it gives a high quality freedom. It frees the mind from superstitions and fills it with truth. It frees the soul from sin and wrong and quickens it with goodness and purity. It frees the self from vanity and greed, envy and tension, fear and insecurity. It frees man from subjugation to desires and false deities (idols, men, money, societies, families, power, celebrity, etc…) and unfolds before him the beautiful horizons of goodness and excellence. Submission to the Will of God is the best safeguard of peace and harmony. It enables man to make peace between himself and his fellow men, on one hand, and between the human community and God on the other. It creates harmony among the elements of nature.
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