What does “Islam” mean? The word الإسلام [Islam] is an infinitive word derived from س ل م [silm] root in if‘al pattern and used as noun and infinitive. The word silm means “release/keeping away; and to be distant from fear, doubt, trouble, lack of peace, unhappiness, fight, war, pain, suffering, material and spiritual inconveniences, weakness and decaying, and all the negativities.” This word is also the root of salim, selam, teslim, Islam etc. The word’s “Islam” form means “strengthening” [removal from problems, worries, fear, unhappiness, fights, wars, and similar negative things]. Hence, the religion Islam means the “the religion that strengthens humans [entire range of principles that protects and secures people by putting a distance between them and problems, worries, war, weakness, spiritual illness, unhappiness, and similar things].”

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SURAH AL-ADIYAT (THE COURSER)
MECCAN PERIOD
Division: 28
1-5Those who run panting, who strike sparks of fire, then raid in the morning,
raising clouds of dust, who plunge into the most valuable resources and assets of a
community is the evidence that 6surely, man is ungrateful to his Rabb [the Lord, the
Cherisher, the Nurturer, the Sustainer], 7and he witnesses to this. 8Without a doubt,
violent is he in his love of wealth.
9-11Do those looters not know when contents of graves are resurrected and
scattered, what lies within the chests are obtained, surely that day their Rabb [the
Lord, the Cherisher, the Nurturer, the Sustainer] will be premonitory to them?
(14/100, Al-Adiyat/1-11)