The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 266
CH. 22 AL-HAJJ reserved for the religion of the Holy Prophet Muḥammad to receive this proper name from God. As the religions preached and practised by the former prophets were only an undeveloped and imperfect form of Islam they did not receive a proper name and were known after their own names. But as Islam, the eternal faith, received its fullest development and completest consummation at the hands of the Holy Prophet, his religion was given this proper name. This is one of the many superiorities which the Holy Prophet possesses over other Prophets of God. PT. 17 means 'peace'; a true Muslim is one who is at peace with God and man and is also at peace with himself. The Holy Prophet has given an apt definition of a Muslim in the following well-known ḥadīth المسلم من سلم المسلمون من يده و لسانه i. e. a true Muslim is one from whose hands and tongue other Muslims are safe (Bukhārī). It is indeed strange that a religion, whose very name means 'peace' and whose followers are enjoined to preach and practise peace, should have been stigmatized by hostile and ignorant critics as having brought fire and sword into the world, and should The words "He named you have been maligned as being indebted Muslims" possess another for its expansion and propagation to significance. The word 'Muslim' the swords and spears of its votaries! being from the root 'Islam' which Nothing could be farther from truth. 2180