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muslim– muslimūn, etc. — (one) who yields, submits, is submitting.

muslim– muslimūn, etc. — (one) who yields, submits, is submitting. See Notepad XIII.iii. __________________________________________ XIII.iii-Muslims 2:128, 2:128, 2:132, 2:133, 2:136, 3:52, 3:64, 3:67, 3:80, 3:84, 3:102, 5:111, 6:163, 7:126, 10:72, 10:84, 10:90, 11:14, 12:101,  15:2, 16:89, 16:102, 21:108, 22:78, 27:31, 27:38, 27:42, 27:81, 27:91, 28:53, 29:46, 30:53, 33:35, 33:35, 39:12, 41:33, 43:69,  46:15, 51:36, 66:5, 68:35, 72:14. The Traditionalist claim that muslimūn as used in the Qur’an bears any correlation with what Muslims means today is disingenuous, manipulative and provably false. Words evolve new meanings over time. To apply the Traditionalist’s claims for the word muslimūn to its usage in the Qur’an would be like insisting that a particular famous brand of cigarette sporting a famous desert beast is, in fact, a camel.  The word muslimūn means those who have yielded or submitted or surrendered (in most contexts: to God). That is all.  All men of God ...