ON LANGUAGE, ARABIC AND THE WAY
This graphical presentation on Islam in the 21st Century takes note of some historical background.
The contemporary status of Islam is the main focus, but some history cannot be avoided.
Many images are accompanied by English and Arabic textual comments for some clarity.
The Arabic may have a few syntactical errors.
Arabic is a difficult language for us outsiders.
In any foreign language, nuances may be lost viadirect word-for-word translation.
The Arabic here tries to capture not the literal translation in all cases, but the nuance needed.
For example: the "House of Islam" can be both literal--and figurative, as the "World of Islam."
The "World of Islam" isn't any one Islamic locale, but any house or physical location in which five prayers are an established daily religious ritual.
The all-inclusive call of any or all Muslims that outsiders need to give Islam unqualified respect has many hidden snares and traps.
The main snare and trap is that Islam should have its way and we should bow to Islam's Way always.
The "Way of Islam" is something the Qur'an repeatedly teaches. Muslims want our submission to that Way without question.