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-IKHLAS (THE PURITY OF FAITH)
MECCAN PERIOD
Division: 36
1Say: “He, Rabb [the Lord, the Cherisher, the Nurturer, the Sustainer], is Allah,
the One and the Only, 2Allah is the Eternal,1 3neither begets He nor is He begotten.
4And there is no equivalent to Him.”!
(22/112, Al-Ikhlas/1-4)
1 51 Samad has many different meanings and cannot be translated using a single word.
These meanings can be listed as follows: the master to turn to/ask for all needs, sublime; the one that
is not hollow, the one that does not accept anything in, the one who requires nothing; the one who
knows everything; lenient; the most honorable and most glorious; the one who creates all; the one
who is asked/begged for what is desired; the one who is asked for help in case of distress; the one
who does what he pleases, judges at his sole discretion while being not accountable or questionable
for what he did; the only honorable person; wealthy/rich; the one who is dominant over his servants,
the most supreme, the one who is not obliged to show respect to his minions, the one who is asked for
all needs; the one who does not eat, drink, the one who feeds but is not fed, the one who will survive
to eternity after all his creations die; the one who is eternal; the one who does not die, the one who
has no successors; the one who does not sleep and is not woken up; the one who cannot be defined
with qualities of others; the one who has no deficiencies, faults, errors; the one who never involves in
a trouble; the one who is the most exalted in quality and deeds; the one who always prevails and
never fails; the one whom no one can meet personally, perceive the qualities and features; the one
who cannot be perceived by the eyes; the one who has a deficiency nor surplus.
If we have to summarize these qualities with a mathematical expression, the accurate phrase
should be “the perfect and absolute entity existence of whom cannot be calculated using a numerical
system, from natural numbers to imaginary numbers”.
It is notable that a word with such a rich content is not used in the Qur’an for any deity before
Allah.