What does “Islam” mean? The word الإسلام [Islam] is an infinitive word derived from س ل م [silm] root in if‘al pattern and used as noun and infinitive. The word silm means “release/keeping away; and to be distant from fear, doubt, trouble, lack of peace, unhappiness, fight, war, pain, suffering, material and spiritual inconveniences, weakness and decaying, and all the negativities.” This word is also the root of salim, selam, teslim, Islam etc. The word’s “Islam” form means “strengthening” [removal from problems, worries, fear, unhappiness, fights, wars, and similar negative things]. Hence, the religion Islam means the “the religion that strengthens humans [entire range of principles that protects and secures people by putting a distance between them and problems, worries, war, weakness, spiritual illness, unhappiness, and similar things].”

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SURAH AL-FALAQ (EASE FROM TROUBLES)
MECCAN PERIOD
Division: 34
1-5Say: “I seek refuge with my Rabb [the Lord, the Cherisher, the Nurturer, the
Sustainer] from the evil of those He created and the evil hidden within the darkness
when it falls and from the evil of those who spit and blow on the knots/those who
fail to comply with the covenants and from the evil of those who are jealous;48 I seek
refuge with Allah who systematically eliminates all troubles”!
(20/113, Al-Falaq/1-5)
48 See Footnote No. 2