I think there is an Imam who is like a preacher..

Not sure about a pope type figure..
I don't think Islam has much to do with peace though..

"Those who follow Muhammad are merciless for the unbelievers but kind to each other." (Qur'an 48:29)

"Fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them and seize them, confine them, and lie in wait for them in every place of ambush" (Surah 9:5)

"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and his apostle nor acknowledge the religion of truth of the people of the Book until they pay the Jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued." (Surah 9:29)

I don't think Islam has much to do with peace though..

"Those who follow Muhammad are merciless for the unbelievers but kind to each other." (Qur'an 48:29)

"Fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them and seize them, confine them, and lie in wait for them in every place of ambush" (Surah 9:5)

"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and his apostle nor acknowledge the religion of truth of the people of the Book until they pay the Jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued." (Surah 9:29)

Islam is an Arabic word meaning Submission, surrender, and obedience. As a religion, Islam stands for complete submission and obedience to God – this is why it is called Islam.

Everyone can see that we live in an orderly universe. There is law and order among all part that make up this universe. Everything is assigned a place in a grand scheme, which is working in a magnificent way. The sun, the moon, all heavenly bodies follow an unalterable law and do not make the slightest deviation from their ordained course, the earth rotates on its axis and in its revolution around the sun follows the path laid out for it in precision, in fact all things from the tiny whirling electron to the mighty galaxies, constantly and ceaselessly follow their own laws. Matter, energy, and life- all obey laws, laws by which they must grow or change, live or die. Even in the human world, the laws of nature are quite obvious. Man’s birth, growth, and life are all regulated by a set of biological laws. These laws are all set by Almighty God. For example, the human tongue, which may, because of his ignorance, advocate the denial of God or state that several gods exist, is by its very nature a ‘Muslim’, submitting and following all the laws placed into its own existence and mechanism of function by Almighty..

Man’s character is such that there are two distinct spheres of his life. In one sphere he finds himself totally regulated by the Divine Law. He cannot budge an inch from it or slip away from its all-embracing control. But there is another sphere of his activity as well. He has been blessed with reason and intelligence. He has the power to think and make judgments, to select or reject, to adopt or spurn. He is free to adopt whatever way of life he chooses, he can select any religion, assume any way of life, and fashion his living according to whatever ideologies he likes. He may prepare his own code of conduct or accept one made by someone else. He has been bestowed with Free Will and can chalk out his own course of behavior. In this respect, he, unlike any other creature, has been given freedom of choice,

In the first aspect of his life, like all other creatures, man is a born Muslim ‘Submitter in English’, constantly obeys the orders of Almighty God, and is bound to remain doing so. As far as the second aspect is concerned, he is free to become or not to become a Muslim. Here is where his gift of choice is operable, and it is the way a person exercises his freedom, which divides mankind into two groups: believers and non-believers. An individual who chooses to recognize his Creator, accepts Him as his real Master, honestly and fully submits to His laws and orders, and follows the system of life He has revealed for man, thereby becomes a complete Muslim. He achieved completeness in his Islam by consciously deciding to obey God through the use of those very abilities of free thought, choice and action that Almighty

I am going to go all out, and believe me when I tell you that I probably would be in trouble if one of those so-called traditional Muslims finds out what I am about to tell you.

There is nothing in the religion of Islam that promotes hatred or killing anyone for any reason they themselves see fit, I believe that a vast number of Muslims have the wrong interpretation of the Quran and worse yet they refer to two other things called Hadith and Sunna, (in English Hadith is a collection of sayings of prophet Muhammad and Sunna is the behavior and actions of the prophets daily life) they (traditional Muslims) consider these two concepts as part of the religion, which in itself is disobeying God and his messenger by following anything other than God’s word.

[Quran 6:114] Shall I seek other than GOD as a source of law, when He has revealed to you this book fully detailed? Those who received the scripture recognize that it has been revealed from your Lord, truthfully. You shall not harbor any doubt.

In fact, I am positive that the prophet had nothing to do with them, those Hadiths “Sayings in English” and Sunna (actions and behavior). Back during the days of the prophet, nobody even dared to say, mention, or write any of those things, since he “the prophet Muhammad” very much stressed to all his followers not to write anything he says unless it’s Quran, and not to follow anything or anybody except the Quran.

The day the prophet died, the Khalifa “Governor” that Muslims elected to lead them after the prophet Muhammad’s death said, “O believers, anybody who worshiped Muhammad, Muhammad is dead, anybody who worshiped God, God is eternal and will not die.” Stressing the fact the God and his word is the only thing that matters and it is what you are expected to follow and it is the ruler by which your life and actions on this earth will be measured and answer to God according to them.

Unfortunately many of these self-proclaimed Muslim scholars quote Hadith and Sunna when it comes to matters of religion, again disobeying God’s messenger telling them not to do so. Hadith which people started recording at least 20-30 years after the prophet’s death, a lot of which in my opinion was forged and claimed to be the prophets with no justification or a logical way of verification.

I am sick and tired of people defacing Islam and the word of God, and making up the formulas of Muslim = Terrorist and Arab = Terrorist

I also I’m tired of those who say the word Allah sarcastically, the word Allah is the Arabic word for the word "God". Many people including some Muslims believe that "Allah" is the name of the Muslim God. People do not realize that the word "Allah” does not belong exclusively to the Muslims all Christian Arabs and Arab Jews use the term ALLAH to refer to God the Almighty Lord and Creator when they speak Arabic. Insisting on the use of the word "Allah" for God in non-Arabic languages especially in the media immediately creates the illusion that "Allah" is a whole different deity than God of the whole universe and all of its creatures. “A paraphrase from submission.org”

Why doesn’t anybody make fun or say it sarcastically when the Spanish say the word God in their language “Dios”, or how the Germans say God “Gott“ or the French ”Dieu”, or the Italians “Dio”.

Those are a couple of things I wanted to point out, I hope I was helpful in provide some answer to your question.

By the way, I am a Muslim/Palestinian living in North Carolina for the past 13 years, I love this country and this state in particular and I owe them a lot.

I will sign this email with my Alias, since like I said before a lot of people will not be happy to hear what I just said regarding Hadith (Prophet’s sayings) and Sunna (Prophet’s Actions), as a matter of fact, the gentleman who published the ideas, translations, and concepts on the submission.org is said to have been assassinated probably because of those very ideas.

May peace be upon you and us all.

Here is a commentary sent to us by one of our readers describing Islam (Submission).


What is Islam?


Islam is an Arabic word meaning Submission, surrender, and obedience. As a religion, Islam stands for complete submission and obedience to God – this is why it is called Islam.

Everyone can see that we live in an orderly universe. There is law and order among all part that make up this universe. Everything is assigned a place in a grand scheme, which is working in a magnificent way. The sun, the moon, all heavenly bodies follow an unalterable law and do not make the slightest deviation from their ordained course, the earth rotates on its axis and in its revolution around the sun follows the path laid out for it in precision, in fact all things from the tiny whirling electron to the mighty galaxies, constantly and ceaselessly follow their own laws. Matter, energy, and life- all obey laws, laws by which they must grow or change, live or die. Even in the human world, the laws of nature are quite obvious. Man’s birth, growth, and life are all regulated by a set of biological laws. These laws are all set by Almighty God. For example, the human tongue, which may, because of his ignorance, advocate the denial of God or state that several gods exist, is by its very nature a ‘Muslim’, submitting and following all the laws placed into its own existence and mechanism of function by Almighty..

Man’s character is such that there are two distinct spheres of his life. In one sphere he finds himself totally regulated by the Divine Law. He cannot budge an inch from it or slip away from its all-embracing control. But there is another sphere of his activity as well. He has been blessed with reason and intelligence. He has the power to think and make judgments, to select or reject, to adopt or spurn. He is free to adopt whatever way of life he chooses, he can select any religion, assume any way of life, and fashion his living according to whatever ideologies he likes. He may prepare his own code of conduct or accept one made by someone else. He has been bestowed with Free Will and can chalk out his own course of behavior. In this respect, he, unlike any other creature, has been given freedom of choice,

In the first aspect of his life, like all other creatures, man is a born Muslim ‘Submitter in English’, constantly obeys the orders of Almighty God, and is bound to remain doing so. As far as the second aspect is concerned, he is free to become or not to become a Muslim. Here is where his gift of choice is operable, and it is the way a person exercises his freedom, which divides mankind into two groups: believers and non-believers. An individual who chooses to recognize his Creator, accepts Him as his real Master, honestly and fully submits to His laws and orders, and follows the system of life He has revealed for man, thereby becomes a complete Muslim. He achieved completeness in his Islam by consciously deciding to obey God through the use of those very abilities of free thought, choice and action that Almighty

I am going to go all out, and believe me when I tell you that I probably would be in trouble if one of those so-called traditional Muslims finds out what I am about to tell you.

There is nothing in the religion of Islam that promotes hatred or killing anyone for any reason they themselves see fit, I believe that a vast number of Muslims have the wrong interpretation of the Quran and worse yet they refer to two other things called Hadith and Sunna, (in English Hadith is a collection of sayings of prophet Muhammad and Sunna is the behavior and actions of the prophets daily life) they (traditional Muslims) consider these two concepts as part of the religion, which in itself is disobeying God and his messenger by following anything other than God’s word.

[Quran 6:114] Shall I seek other than GOD as a source of law, when He has revealed to you this book fully detailed? Those who received the scripture recognize that it has been revealed from your Lord, truthfully. You shall not harbor any doubt.

In fact, I am positive that the prophet had nothing to do with them, those Hadiths “Sayings in English” and Sunna (actions and behavior). Back during the days of the prophet, nobody even dared to say, mention, or write any of those things, since he “the prophet Muhammad” very much stressed to all his followers not to write anything he says unless it’s Quran, and not to follow anything or anybody except the Quran.

The day the prophet died, the Khalifa “Governor” that Muslims elected to lead them after the prophet Muhammad’s death said, “O believers, anybody who worshiped Muhammad, Muhammad is dead, anybody who worshiped God, God is eternal and will not die.” Stressing the fact the God and his word is the only thing that matters and it is what you are expected to follow and it is the ruler by which your life and actions on this earth will be measured and answer to God according to them.

Unfortunately many of these self-proclaimed Muslim scholars quote Hadith and Sunna when it comes to matters of religion, again disobeying God’s messenger telling them not to do so. Hadith which people started recording at least 20-30 years after the prophet’s death, a lot of which in my opinion was forged and claimed to be the prophets with no justification or a logical way of verification.

I am sick and tired of people defacing Islam and the word of God, and making up the formulas of Muslim = Terrorist and Arab = Terrorist

I also I’m tired of those who say the word Allah sarcastically, the word Allah is the Arabic word for the word "God". Many people including some Muslims believe that "Allah" is the name of the Muslim God. People do not realize that the word "Allah” does not belong exclusively to the Muslims all Christian Arabs and Arab Jews use the term ALLAH to refer to God the Almighty Lord and Creator when they speak Arabic. Insisting on the use of the word "Allah" for God in non-Arabic languages especially in the media immediately creates the illusion that "Allah" is a whole different deity than God of the whole universe and all of its creatures. “A paraphrase from submission.org”

Why doesn’t anybody make fun or say it sarcastically when the Spanish say the word God in their language “Dios”, or how the Germans say God “Gott“ or the French ”Dieu”, or the Italians “Dio”.

Those are a couple of things I wanted to point out, I hope I was helpful in provide some answer to your question.

By the way, I am a Muslim/Palestinian living in North Carolina for the past 13 years, I love this country and this state in particular and I owe them a lot.

I will sign this email with my Alias, since like I said before a lot of people will not be happy to hear what I just said regarding Hadith (Prophet’s sayings) and Sunna (Prophet’s Actions), as a matter of fact, the gentleman who published the ideas, translations, and concepts on the submission.org is said to have been assassinated probably because of those very ideas.

May peace be upon you and us all.

Please accept my warmest regards and respect,

Nasser V.





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confess my ignorance of the structurization of Islam, is there some "ruler" of the Faith, similar to the Pope?