In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

A brief on the word 'Islam'
The word `shalom' and the Syriac `shlama', as well as the Arabic `salaam' and `Islam', are of one and the same Semitic root, `shalam', and mean the same thing – a matter admitted by all the scholars of the Semitic languages.
The verb `shalam' signifies `to submit, resign oneself to' and then `to make peace' and consequently `to be safe, sound, and tranquil'.
No religious system in the world has ever been qualified with a better and more comprehensible, dignified, and sublime name than that of Islam.
The true religion of the True God cannot be named after the name of any of His servants, and much less after the name of a people or a country. It is indeed this sanctity and the inviolability of the word `Islam' that strikes its enemies with awe, fear and reverence even when the Muslims are weak and unhappy.
It is the name and title of a religion that teaches and commands absolute submission and resignation of will and self to the Supreme Being, and then to obtain peace and tranquility in mind and at home, no matter what tribulations or passing misfortunes may threaten us that fills its opponents with awe.
It is interesting and significant to note how the observations of the ex-Kaiser of Germany, who, on the occasion of his 70th birthday celebrations at Doorn, Holland, said in his speech:
"And understand this – if ever the Muslims should conceive the idea that it is Allah's command to bring order into a declining West and subjugate to His will, then – with a faith in God – they will come upon the godless Europeans like a tidal wave, against which even the reddest Bolshevist, full of eagerness for combat, will be helpless" <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Evening Standard, London, Jan 26th 1929
from
Muhammad in the Bible
By the former Bishop of Uramiah
p. 108 -109