SUFIS: THE MYSTICAL Muslims
(Part Three in a series on Islam from Forward magazine)
A popular expression of Muhammad's religion in the Western world today is Sufism, Islam's mystical way. The curre…
Arabic is written from right to left, like other Semitic scripts, and consists of 17 characters, which, with the addition of dots placed above or below certain of them, provide the 28 letters o…
1- What is the meaning of Islam?
In Arabic, when a warrior lays down his arms and surrenders because he knows he is defeated, we use the verb "aslama", which means "he submits." The word "Islam" com…
