"This day have I perfected your religion for you and completed
My favour unto you, and have chosen for you as your religion
Islam." (Quran, Surah V:3) Islam is a religion based upon the
surrender to God who is One. The very name of the religion,
ALISLAM in Arabic, means at once submission and peace, for it is
in submitting to God's Will that human beings gain peace in
their lives in this world and in the hereafter. The message of
Islam concerns God, who in Arabic is called Allah, and it
addresses itself to humanity's most profound nature. It concerns
men and women as they were created by God--not as fallen beings.
Islam therefore considers itself to be not an innovation but a
reassertion of the universal truth of all revelation which is
God's Oneness. This truth was asserted by the prophets of old
and especially by Abraham, the father of monotheism. Islam
reveres all of these prophets including not only Abraham, who is
the father of the Arabs as well as of the Jews, but also Moses
and Christ. The Prophet and