Islam is the way of life

The Arabic word: الإسلام‎ (al-’islām) means "to accept, assent, surrender or submit" to what is essentially a scriptural discipline. Most people believe that Islam is a religion. Even some of the followers of Islam believe it is indeed a religion and just started around 1,5 millennium ago.

In classical Arabic, Islam is not a proper noun, but a reference to acceptance or assent. Therefore, this book uses The Assent to refer to Islam as a way of Life and Islam to refer it as a religion. Similarly, The Assenter refers to the followers of the way of life, while Moslems refers to the followers of the religion. The title of this book uses the word Islam instead of Islamic to further emphasize its descriptive use rather than a proper noun.

This book discusses Islam as a way of life behind the religion. This way of life was broadly followed by people all around the world many millennia before the reformation initiated by 'the recitation'. This is generally known by its Arabic name: القرآن‎ al-qur’ān,” (also sometimes transliterated as Qur’ān, Koran, Alcoran or Al-Qur’ān) This scriptural text is still today studied and revered as the authentic Word of God by many people around the world.

Most Moslems today regard their religion as the completed and universal version of a monotheistic faith revealed to many times and places before, including, notably, to the prophets Abraham, Moses and Jesus. Islamic tradition holds that previous messages and revelations have been changed and distorted over time, so that the path Islam was and still is eternal, and the Holy Prophet merely corrected an aberration. For this reason, the Moslems when mentioning the name of the prophet Muhammad usually add "Peace be upon him" as a reminder of his central theme.