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| Notes on a guest speaker from Twin Ports Islamic Center in my class |
The root s-l-m, from which the word Islam is derived, means "safe and unharmed, unimpaired." Its derivatives include words meaning both "peace" and "surrender."...It is the latter meaning that is uppermust in the use of the term Islam, meaning "to surrender oneself, to commit or resign oneself to the will of God." Islam is the state or act of submission; Muslim is the one who submits. It is in this sense, of total surrender to the will of God, that the terms Islam and Muslim have always been understood in the Islamic lands and communities.
--Barnard Lewis and Buntzie Ellis Churchill,
Islam: the Religion and the People (Pearson, 2009)
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