Is the quran right or wrong when it says that all prophets were "MUSLIMS"?

Question

The word "muslim" indicates someone that submit to the will of God.

Then aren't all believers and those who submit to God "MUSLIMS"?

Answer 1

If you speak in Arabic maybe, but if you use the word Muslim as an expression then it's not quiet exact.
Muslim as in submitting to God applies to all religions but Muslim as in Islam follower does not apply to all God sent religions.

Answer 2

No.

Using your same logic, the word "christian" indicates someone that submits to the will of God as well. So then aren't all believers and those who submit to God "CHRISTIANS"?

Logic is a tricky thing.

Answer 3

Muslim just means SUBMIT.We believe that all prophet submit to god,don't you?

There's nothing to get mad about?

Answer 4

Koran mentioned that all humans are slaves of Allah including the Prophets, but Christians and Jews look at differently as slavery mentioned in their books as human enslaving human also mention in the Koran that human can enslave human. So Muslim also could mean slave of Allah or God so slavery should be devoted to Allah in this case but Islam also allowed slavery of human to human and the word slavery indicate force not volunteer so I don't think all believers where slaves (enforced) may be some but not all. So Should We call All believers slaves?, I am sure many wouldn't like it because it is against freedom.

Answer 5

Muslims believe in one, unique, incomparable God, Who has no son nor partner, and that none has the right to be worshipped but Him alone. He is the true God, and every other deity is false. He has the most magnificent names and sublime perfect attributes. No one shares His divinity, nor His attributes. In the Qur'an, God describes Himself: Say "He is God, the One. God, to Whom the creatures turn for their needs. He begets not, nor was he begotten, and there is none like Him." Holy Qur'an, 112:1-4

No one has the right to be invoked, supplicated, prayed to, or shown any act of worship, but God alone.

God alone is the Almighty, the Creator, the Sovereign, and the Sustainer of everything in the whole universe. He manages all affairs. He stands in need of none of His creatures, and all His creatures depend on Him for all that they need. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing, and the All-Knowing. In a perfect manner, His knowledge encompasses all things, the open and the secret, the public and the private. He knows what has happened, what will happen, and how it will happen. No affair occurs in the whole world except by His will. Whatever He wills is, and whatever He does not will is not and will never be. His will is above the will of all the creatures. He has power over all things, and He is able to do everything. He is the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent. In one of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), we are told that God is more merciful to His creatures than a mother to her child. God is far removed from injustice and tyranny. He is All-Wise in all of His actions and decrees. If someone wants something from God, he or she can ask God directly without asking anyone else to intercede with God for him or her.
God is not Jesus, and Jesus is not God. Even Jesus himself rejected this. God has said in the Qur'an:

"Indeed, they have disbelieved who have said: "God is the Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary." The Messiah said; "Children of Israel, worship
God, my Lord and your Lord. Whoever associates Partners in worship with God, then God has Forbidden Paradise for him, and his home is
The Fire (Hell). For the wrongdoers, there Will be no helpers." Holy Qur'an 5:72 God is not a trinity. God has said in the Qur'an:

Indeed, they disbelieve who say: "god is the third of three (in a trinity)," when there is no god but one God. If they desist not from what they say, truly, A painful punishment will befall the disbelievers Among them. Would they not rather repent to God And ask His forgiveness? For God is Oft-Forgiving,
Most Merciful. The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary, Was no more than a messenger … Holy Qur'an 5:73-75 Islam rejects that God rested on the seventh day of the creation, that He wrestled with one of His angels, that He is an envious plotter against mankind, or that He is incarnate in any human being. Islam also rejects the attribution of any human form to God. All of these are considered blasphemous. God is the Exalted. He is far removed from every imperfection. He never becomes weary. He does not become drowsy nor does he sleep.

The Arabic word Allah means God (the one and only true God who created the whole universe). This word Allah is a name for God, which is used by Arabic speakers, both Arab Muslims and Arab Christians.

This word cannot be used to designate anything other than the one true God. The Arabic word Allah occurs in the Qur'an about 2700 times. In Aramaic, a language related closely to Arabic and the language that Jesus habitually spoke, God is also referred to as Allah.

Answer 6

Of course right.God sending prophets to the world for what?:People have to know about God and orders.To know God and praying to only God.This is Muslim belief.Ä°t doesnt matter when and which prophet and which language is.God will never order to His prophets to teach people different religions.God orders to teach one religion and always wanted one way people
will pray to God.

Answer 7

Thank you for this question.

The answer can be made both contextually and semantically. In the original sense of the word, the Quranic arabic word "muslim" (lower case "m") was not used the same as we do today with the word "Muslim" (uppercase "M") As used in the Quran "muslim" does mean simply "one who submits to the will of God." Or better, it can also mean (using the meaning of the prefix "mu" as "in the state of") to be in a state of one-ness with God's will. This comes from one of the meanings of the root word "salama" which means to be whole, or to be without defect. Therefore a true "muslim" in the Quranic sense means that one's personal intentions and actions are without defect as they relate to the intentions and actions of God or that they are in total confluence. Rather than "submitting" this implies that one is aware of God's intentions and will and that one consciously aligns one's own life in accordance with God's will.

In that sense of the word, all the prophets are considered muslims (lower case "m") because they obeyed a calling from God in one way or another, thereby meeting the definition of the Quranic term. Today, more often than not, we use the term Muslim (uppercase "M") to simply denote a person who professes to follow a religion that is based on the Quran and Muhammad's (saw) teachings.

The irony of this is that today when there are 1.6 billion Muslims (uppercase "M") in the world, so few of them actually align their lives according to the will of God.

And Allah knows best.

Peace and Blessings,

Salim

Answer 8

Muslims believe prophets are mostly sin free, That gives them the right to judge others.
their prophets are the same ones as the bible, and the bible records many of the prophets sins..


so they never submitted to God too well - Therefor they do not desearve to be called Muslim

Answer 9

Religion of all the prophets was 'total submission to God's will' and one word for that in the Arabic language is 'Islam'. Abraham and Jesus (peace be upon them) too were Muslims, as Allah testifies in Al-Qur'an 3:67 and 3:52 respectively.

Answer 10

The general meaning of "muslims" are anyone who submit to Allah's will (this includes submitting to the laws that Allah has decreed).

In the general meaning of the word "muslims", it is correct when Islam teaches its followers that all prophets are muslims.

The specific meaning of "Muslims" (that is after the Prophet Muhammad being appointed as the final prophet) is referring to people who believe in one God and believe that Prophet Muhammad is the final prophet.

According to Islamic teaching if people believe in God and all of His prophets, then people should also believe in Prophet Muhammad when God appointed him as the last and final prophet. By appointing Prophet Muhammad as the final prophet, God has also revealed his final laws to the final prophet [religious laws, according to Islamic teaching, are revealed by God to the people in this world stages by stages].

Therefore according to the Islamic teaching, after the appointment of the Prophet Muhammad as the final prophet, anyone who want to consider himself/herself as a Muslim, must understand, accept and submit to the final laws that God has revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.

Therefore, in the present context, only people who believe in one God and the teaching of the Prophet Muhammad as the final prophet will be considered Muslims.