What is the differance between Muslim and Mu'min?

Answer 1

One of the verses in the Qur'an makes a distinction between a mu'min. a believer, and a Muslim:

(Rodwell 49:14) The Arabs of the desert say, "We believe." (tu/minoo) Say thou: Ye believe not; but rather say, "We profess Islam;" (aslamna) for the faith (al-eemanu) hath not yet found its way into your hearts. But if ye obey God and His Apostle, he will not allow you to lose any of your actions: for God is Indulgent, Merciful.

According to the Western 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 Quranic passage cites 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, or faith, and the one who possesses it is the mu'min, or 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." [1]

Answer 2

nicely the literal experience of Mu'min is 'a believer,' which could comprise a Muslim, yet isn't constrained to Muslims. for instance, Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Adam (peace be on all of them) were all Mu'minoon (plural of Mu'min). regardless of if it isn't regularly said that Christians and Jews (human beings of the e book) are mu'minoon, we can't realy deny that both, and using the be conscious Mu'min interior the Qur'an opens the door to it. there's a perfect financial ruin interior the Qur'an observed as Al-Mu'minoon, in case you get the probability, i'd advise interpreting it.

Answer 3

i been thru this

Muslim = you can be muslim because you born muslim or you have accepted islam to be ur faith. sometime he may have doubts, sometime he question his faith.

Mu'min = is the one that God has put secure in his heart about this faith, he knows that Islam is from God, he isn't guessing but he knows for sure without doubts.

Mu'wken = this is more than Mu'min, this is like someone who was in Hell and paradise and came back. and he completly knows that Islam is true.

Al-sadikin = those who have proved to God that they honestly believing without doubt.

Answer 4

muslim , is the one who submit to one god , mu men : is muslim but true and higher in his faith.

Answer 5

there isn't really a diffrence at all and if there is it is a very slight difference

Answer 6

idk