What is Islam?

This is an excellent effort.

It is has become a necessity, long time back, to enhance discussions about Islam in some international language like English. If not to invite people to embrace Islam, let be at least to defend Islam against a negative profile that is being progressively drawn by non-Muslims and, even worst, by some Muslims. May be the self-inflicted negativity is even more serious.

Our brothers from Pakistan and India have done a lot. But we need more. We need people who can bring different cultures to send the appropriate messages to different parts of the world. The words, the terminology and the style make all the difference.

I notice that, because of the dominating Christian terminology in English language, words like the ‘Lord’ for example became a monopoly. On the other hand, and, although Arabic speaking Christian scholars use the name of the almighty ‘Allah’ frequently as a reference to their God, non-Arabic speaking Christian scholars regard “Allah” as the God of Muslims only. So culture matters. So we can consider this in our discussions.

Well done and let us have more.

Arabic Forum