Muslim Worldview

Found an interesting note on Muslim worldview. Thought it might be a good reading for you as well. Read this:

" The key to the Muslim worldview is the word "Islam" itself. It is an Arabic word, a kind of verbal noun which Muslims love to tell you means "submission" (similarly, "Muslim" means "one who submits"). Its importance lies in the fact that it defines how Muslims understand the relationship that God intends should exist between Himself and man. The verb form is typically used of a person laying down his arms in defeat; he "makes peace" or "submits." This same idea comes out in the principal synonyms for God and man used in the Qur'an: Rabb ("Lord") and 'abd ("slave"). Five times a day Muslims must address God in prayer as "Lord of the worlds," in the words of the first Sura of the Qur'an, and prostrate themselves to the earth as His "slaves."

Christians will note that the Bible also has something important to say about "submission" to God (cf. James 4:7); indeed, it is at the heart of Jesus' teaching on discipleship and the Kingdom of God. And yet we must also say that the Bible's idea of submission is quite different from that of the Qur'an. That is because it is based on radically different presuppositions. "

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