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who would object to this interpretation to produce an127Arabic word besides Islam and Salām as the equivalent of the shālōm, and also to find for us another word in Hebrew besides shālōm that would convey and express the same meaning as Islam. It is impossible to produce another such an equivalent. Therefore, we are forced to admit that shālōm is the same as “salām” or “peace” in the abstract, and “Islam” as a religion and faith in the concrete.4. As the Quran in (chap. ii.) Expressly reminds us that Abraham (pbuh) and his sons and grandsons were the followers of Islam; [1].That they were neither Jews nor Christians; that they preached and propagated the worship and the faith in the one God to all the peoples among whom they sojourned or dwelt, we must admit that not only the Jews, but several other nations that descended from the other sons of Abraham (pbuh) and many tribes converted and absorbed by them, were also Muslims; that is to say, believers in Allah and resigned to His will. There were the people of Esau, the Edomites, the Midianites, and numerous other peoples living in Arabia, who knew God and worshipped Him like the Israelites. These peoples had also their own prophets and religious guides like Job, Jethro (the father-in-law of the Prophet Moses (pbuh) , Balaam, Hud (pbuh) , and many others. But they, like the Jews, had taken to idolatry until it wastotally eradicated by the Prince of the prophets. The Jews, in about the fifth century B.C., produced the greater portion of their canonical books of the Old Testament, when the memories of the conquest of the land of Canaan by Joshua, the temple and Jerusalem of Solomon (pbuh) , were events buried in the past epochs of their wondrous[1] Qur-án,3: 67. Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian; but he was Upright, and bowed his will to Allah.s (Which is Islam), and he joined not gods with Allah. Qur-án, 3: 68. Without doubt, among men, the nearest of kin to Abraham, are those who follow him, as are also this Prophet and those who believe: And Allah is the Protector of those who have faith.)Editors›(.
