Islam is said to mean 'peace' and it no doubt is rooted from the word for Peace, Salaam, in Hebrew and Arabic, Esalaam. But it also is said to mean 'surrender.' This is meant in a religious way, to surrender to the will of God, and is legitimate. It does not mean to be willingly enslaved. This religious surrender or submission no doubt leads to peace but the Queeron does not use it in that way.
Queeron
3:19 "Lo! religion with Allah (is) Surrender."
but another translation comes out differently but in the next verse says submit:
[3.19] Surely the (true) religion with Allah is Islam, and those to whom the Book had been given did not show opposition but after knowledge had come to them, out of envy among themselves; and whoever disbelieves in the communications of Allah then surely Allah is quick in reckoning.
[3.20] But if they dispute with you, say: I have submitted myself entirely to Allah and (so) every one who follows me; and say to those who have been given the Book and the unlearned people: Do you submit yourselves? So if they submit then indeed they follow the right way; and if they turn back, then upon you is only the delivery of the message and Allah sees the servants.
Here is another verse with the term Surrender:
2:283 But if ye be upon a journey, and ye cannot find a scribe, then let a pledge be taken. But if one of you trust another, then let him who is trusted surrender his trust, and let him fear God his Lord, and conceal not testimony, for he who conceals it, verily, sinful is his heart: God knows what ye do.
A search for submission finds one use and that is of a wife to submit to her husband.
4.38 Men stand superior to women in that God hath preferred some of them over others, and in that they expend of their wealth: and the virtuous women, devoted, careful (in their husbands) absence, as God has cared for them. But those whose perverseness ye fear, admonish them and remove them into bedchambers and beat them; but if they submit to you, then do not seek a way against them; verily, God is high and great.
A look at the Queeron for Peace shows:
1. Koran sura 37: The Ranks
77 peace upon Noah in the worlds; 181 and peace be upon the apostles
2. Koran sura 19: Mary 15 So peace upon him the day he was born, and the day he died, and the day he shall be raised up alive. 34 and peace upon me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised up alive.?
3. Koran sura 16: The Bee 89 And they shall proffer on that day peace unto God; and that which they had devised shall stray away from them.
4. Koran sura 49: The Inner Chambers 9 And if the two parties of the believers quarrel, then make peace between them; and if one of the twain outrages the other, then fight the party that has committed the outrage until it return to God? bidding; and if it do return then make peace between them with equity, and be just; verily, God loves the just. 10 The believers are but brothers, so make peace between your two brethren and fear God, haply ye may obtain mercy!
5. Koran sura 56: The Inevitable 25 Only the speech, "Peace, Peace!" 26 And the fellows of the right. What right lucky fellows!
6. Koran sura 2: The Cow 204 O ye who believe, enter ye into the peace, one and all, and follow not the footsteps of Satan; verily, to you he is an open foe. 224 Make not God the butt of your oaths, that ye will keep clear and fear and make peace amongst men, for God both hears and knows.
7. Koran sura 4: Women 92 save those who reach a people betwixt whom and you is an alliance- or who come to you while their bosoms prevent them from fighting you or fighting their own people. But had God pleased He would have given you dominion over them, and they would surely have fought you. But if they retire from you and do not fight you, and offer you peace,- then God hath given you no way against them. 93 Ye will find others who seek for quarter from you, and quarter from their own people; whenever they return to sedition they shall be overturned therein: but if they retire not from you, nor offer you peace, nor restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wheresoever ye find them;- over these we have made for you manifest power.
8. Koran sura 6: Cattle 127 for them is an abode of peace; and their Lord, He is their patron for what they have done.
9. Koran sura 10: Jonah 26 God calls unto the abode of peace, and guides whom He will into the right path.
-- Christians
2:21 But the Jews and the Christians say, "We are the sons of God and His beloved." Say, "Why then does He punish you for your sins?" Nay, ye are mortals of those whom He has created! He pardons whom He pleases, and punishes whom He pleases; for God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and what is between the two, and unto Him the journey is.
2:56 O ye who believe, take not the Jews and Christians for your patrons: they are patrons of each other; but whoso amongst you takes them for patrons, verily, he is of them, and, verily, God guides not an unjust people.
2:73 Verily, those who believe and those who are Jews, and the Sabaeans, and the Christians, whosoever believes in God and the last day, and does what is right, there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve.
2:85 Thou wilt surely find that the strongest in enmity against those who believe are the Jews and the idolaters; and thou wilt find the nearest in love to those who believe to be those who say, "We are Christians;" that is because there are amongst them priests and monks, and because they are not proud.
5:17 And of those who say, "Verily we are Christians," we have taken a compact; but they have forgotten a portion of what they were reminded of; wherefore have we excited amongst them enmity and hatred till the resurrection day; but God will tell them of what they have done.
5:21 But the Jews and the Christians say, "We are the sons of God and His beloved." Say, "Why then does He punish you for your sins" Nay, ye are mortals of those whom He has created! He pardons whom He pleases, and punishes whom He pleases; for God's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and what is between the two, and unto Him the journey is.
5:56 O ye who believe, take not the Jews and Christians for your patrons: they are patrons of each other; but whoso amongst you takes them for patrons, verily, he is of them, and, verily, God guides not an unjust people.
5:73 Verily, those who believe and those who are Jews, and the Sabaeans, and the Christians, whosoever believes in God and the last day, and does what is right, there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve.
5:85 Thou wilt surely find that the strongest in enmity against those who believe are the Jews and the idolaters; and thou wilt find the nearest in love to those who believe to be those who say, "we are Christians;" that is because there are amongst them priests and monks, and because they are not proud.
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[2.191] And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.
Qur'an 4:90 "If they turn back from Islam, becoming renegades, seize them and kill them wherever you find them."
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Common Terms
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Kafir (or kafir; plural Kuffar, kuffar) is an Arabic word meaning "denier" or "concealer." In a religious context it means a non-Muslim, and it is often used to mean "unbeliever" or "infidel". The noun kufr means "not believing in God" or "blasphemy, atheism." In Fiqh, the term amounts to the equivalent of Christian excommunication. The verb, "to declare someone a kafir" is takfir. For example, the novelist Salman Rushdie was declared a kafir in the Fatwa of Ayatollah Khomeini.
According to some scholars in Islam, the correct use of the word kafir in Islamic theology does not include either Christians, Samaritans, Jews, and all "Sabians" who are covered by the term Ahl-al-Kitab, or "People of the Book," because they are considered recipients of divine revelation from Allah. However, other scholars, such as those backing militant Islamists, often do not make the distinction in their rhetoric and do often use it to include these religious communities, or any enemy.
This term was picked up by British soldiers in India and then Egypt where they used it as a slang expression for coloreds.
-- Jizya or jizyah is a per capita tax imposed on non-Muslim adult males in states ruled by Islamic law. get embarrassment
[9.29] Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
9:29 being brought low. pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
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Zakāt (or Zakaat or Zakah) (English:tax, alms, tithe) is the third of the Five Pillars of Islam. Its literal meaning is 'to grow (in goodness)' or 'increase', 'purifying' or 'making pure'. It is prescribed in the Qur'an.
"And what you give in usury, so that it may increase through (other) people's wealth it does not increase with Allah, but what you give in Zakaat, seeking Allah's Pleasure, then it is those who shall gain reward manifold..." (30:39) A muslim may also donate an additional amount as an act of voluntary charity (sadaqah), in order to achieve additional divine reward.
There are two main types of zakat :
zakat on self (zakat fitr or fitrah); zakat on wealth (zakat mal), Zakat on self is a per head payment equivalent to about US$1.30 per head (originally in terms of wheat or dates or rice of about 2.25 kilogram) paid during the month of Ramadan by the head of a family for himself and his dependents to the zakat collector (amil).
Zakat on wealth comprises all the other types of zakat, such as on business, on savings, on income, on crops, on livestock, on gold, on minerals, on hidden treasures unearthed, etc. The payment of Zakāt is obligatory on all Muslims. In current usage it is interpreted as a 2.5% levy on most valuables and savings held for a full year if their total value is more than a basic minimum known as nisab. At present nisab is $1,050 or an equivalent amount of any other currency.
Zakat is distributed among 8 asnaf (categories) of people, namely:
Fakir - One who has neither material possessions nor means of livelihood. Miskin - One with insufficient means of livelihood to meet basic needs. Amil - One who is appointed to collect zakat. Muallaf - One who converts to Islam. Riqab - One who wants to free himself from bondage or the shackles of slavery. Gharmin - One who is in debt (money borrowed to meet basic, halal expenditure). Fisabillillah - One who fights for the cause of Allah. Ibnus Sabil - One who is stranded in journey.
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Fitna is an Arabic word for civil war, disagreement, division within Islam. The word also includes the idea of drawing someone away from God.
The term is often used for the First Islamic civil war, in 656-661 CE, a prolonged struggle for the caliphate after the 656 assassination of the caliph Uthman ibn Affan. The Second Fitna, or Second Islamic civil war, is usually identified as the 683-685 CE conflict among the Umayyads for control of the caliphate.
It is also used for non-believers.
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Ghanimah or Plunder