ISLAM-WHAT DOES IT MEAN?? BY MAULANA MAODOODI

Islam is an arabic word and cannotes submission,surrender and obedience as a releigion,Islam stands for complete submission and obedience to Allah and that is why it is called ISLAM.Everyone can see that the universe we live in is an orderly universe.There is law and order among all the units that comprise this universe.Everything is assigned a a place in a grand scheme ,which is working in a magnificent and superb way.The sun the moon the stars and infact all the heavenly bodies are knit together in a splendid system.They follow an unalterable law and do not make even the slightest deviation from their ordained course.The earth rotates on its own axis and its revolution round the sun scrupulously follows the path laid down for it.similarly evrything in the world ,form the title whirling electron to the mighty nebulae.invaribaly follows its own laws.Matter energy and life all obey their laws and grow and change and live and die in accordance with those laws.EVEN in the human world the laws of nature are quite manifest.

God, the creator and ruler of the universe ,As the entire creation obeys the law of God ,the whole universe therfore litrally follows the religion of islam islam signifies nothing but obedience and submission to Allah,the lord of the universe.The sun,The moon,The earth and all other heavenly bodies are thus 'Muslim'.so in the case with air water and heat,stones,trees and animals .Everything in the universe is muslim for it obeys God by submission to his laws.Even a man who refuses to believe in God ,or offers his worship to someone other than Allah as perforce to be a'Muslim' as far as his bodily existence is concerned.For his entire life ,form the embryonic stage to the bodies dissolution info dust after death,and every tissue of his muscles and every limb of his body follow the course prescribed for each by God's law.His every tongue which on account of his ignorance ,advocates the denial of god is in its very nature a 'Muslim'.