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There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim () is an adherent of the religion of Islam . The feminine form of Muslim is '''Muslimah''' (). Literally, the word means "one who submits to God )". Muslims believe that there is only one God, translated in Arabic as Allah. Muslims believe that Islam existed long before , Zuhr , Asr , Maghrib , Isha . There is also a special Friday prayer called Jumma . Most Muslims accept as a Muslim anyone who has publicly pronounced the Shahada , which states, "There is none worthy of worship except God, and Muhammad is His Messenger." This is often translated as, "There is no God except Allah "; "Allah" is the Arabic word for "the God". Currently, there are an estimated 1.4 billion Muslims, making it the second largest religion in the world.Teece (2003), p.10 OTHER WORDS FOR MUSLIM The ordinary word in English is "Muslim", also spelled "Moslem", pronounced /'mʊs.lɪm/, also /'mʌz.ləm/. The word is pronounced /'mʊslɪm/ in Arabic. Until at least the mid 1960s, many English-language writers used the term '' Mohammedan s'' or ''Mahometans''.See for instance the second edition of '' A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage '' by H. W. Fowler , revised by Ernest Gowers (Oxford, 1965)). Many Muslims argue that the terms are offensive because they imply that Muslims worship Muhammad rather than God. English writers of the 19th century and earlier sometimes used the words Mussulman, Musselman, or Mussulmaun. Variant forms of this word are still used by many Indo-European Languages . These words are similar to the French , Spanish , Italian and Portuguese words for "Muslim". MUSLIM AND MU'MIN One of the verses in the Qur'an makes a distinction between a Mu'min , a believer, and a '''Muslim''': The Arabs of the desert say, "We believe." (tu/ According to the academician Carl Ernst , contemporary usage of the terms "Islam" and "Muslim" for the faith and its adherents is a modern innovation. As shown in the Quran ic passage cited above, early Muslims distinguished between the Muslim, who has "submitted" and does the bare minimum required to be considered a part of the community, and the mu'min, the believer, who has given himself or herself to the faith heart and soul. Ernst writes: : "The Arabic term ''Islam'' itself was of relatively minor importance in classical theologies based on the Qur'an. If one looks at the works of theologians such as the famous Al-Ghazali (d. 1111), the key term of religious identity is not ''Islam'' but '' Iman ''(faith), and the one who possesses it is the '' Mu'min '' (believer). Faith is one of the major topics of the Qur'an; it is mentioned hundreds of times in the sacred text. In comparison, ''Islam'' is a relatively less common term of secondary importance; it only occurs eight times in the Qur'an. Since, however, the term ''Islam'' had a derivative meaning relating to the community of those who have submitted to God , it has taken on a new political significance, especially in recent history."Ernst, Carl, ''Following Muhammad '', University of North Carolina Press, 2003, p. 63 For another term in Islam for a non-Muslim who is a Monotheist believer (usually applied historically in a pre-Islamic context), see Hanif . DISAGREEMENTS There are some individuals and groups who consider themselves Muslims, but are not accepted as Muslim by most other Muslims. For example, neither Sunni nor Shi'a Muslims accept Ahmadi s or adherents of the Nation Of Islam as fellow Muslims. To reject another self-proclaimed Muslim as a non-Muslim is called Takfir and is considered un-Islamic by many Muslims. It is, according to Muslims, up to God to decide who is Muslim and who is not. In practice, many Muslim groups, sects, or political factions have labeled other groups, sects, or political factions as non-Muslim; thus, some Sunni will reject other Sunni, some Shi'a will reject other Shi'a, and so on. In some Muslim-majority countries, the state itself takes a position on certain groups; for example, Ahmadi s are not Muslims by the law of Pakistan . Most Muslims believe that anyone who believes Allah to be the one and only god, submits to Allah, believes that Muhammad is the last prophet and follows the path of Muhammad is a Muslim. SEE ALSO
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