Arabic for today

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Sep 1, 2008 at 07:25

Enquirer wrote

>You mentioned rightly that 'salaam' is Arabic for 'peace, but what it infers is 'peace' of submission of one to another.

No it does not. The word salam means peace period as in al-salamu 3alaykum or peace be upon you

> In the case of Islam, this is submission of Muslims to 'Allah's' will,

Well, the difficulty here is the word Islam means the religion of Islam. In actual fact the Arabic word for submission is: Istislam and not Islam

>and of non-Muslims to the will of Muslims; also refered to as dhimmitude.

Again the Arabic word here would be: istislam

>The peace that contains a genuine implied 'equalness' and 'tolerance', such as the non-Muslim world understands, is 'suhl' - you will not find any Muslim readily using this word.

No there is no Arabic word called suhl but there is sulh so is this what you meant?and if so it would mean to settle or adjust and sulh (sad lam hah) has nothing to do with the word peace

>There is also a third word, 'hudna',

No hudna means cease-fire and no it has nothing to do with the word peace

> that is likewise cast to one side in preference to 'salaam'.

I hope I helped

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