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The Muslim position is clear. The Muslim does not claim to have a religion peculiar to himself. Islam is not a sect or an ethnic religion. In its view all Religion is one, for the Truth is one. It was the religion preached by all the earlier prophets. It was the truth taught by all the inspired Books. In essence it amounts to a consciousness of the

To every people (was sent) a messenger:150 when their messenger comes (before them), the matter will be judged between them with justice, and they will not be wronged.

The Ummah confers meaning and purpose on the believer, whose national, ethnic, racial, and sexual identity are and always will be subordinate to his or her membership in the worldwide community of Muslims: a community not bound by any borders, geographic or temporal. Thus when one fasts during the month of Ramadan or joins in the Friday prayers,

Thus to every people We have caused their actions to seem fair. To their Lord they shall all return, and He will declare to them all that they have done.

Le mantra le plus ancien, le plus fréquent et le plus sacré est Om. Dans les écrits védiques, on donne de multiples interprétations à ce son, qui vont de la connaissance infinie à l’essence de tout ce qui existe, en passant par tous les Veda. Le son Om est également appelé pranava, signifiant « le son par lequel le Seigneur est loué ». On récite le

As the Quran suggests over and over again, and as the Constitution of Medina explicitly affirms, Muhammad may have understood the concept of the Umm al-Kitab to mean not only that the Jews, Christians, and Muslims shared a single divine scripture but also that they constituted a single divine Ummah.