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Originally Posted by JAG  If you look up the definition of Judaism, it says it is traced back to Abraham. I understand that you could techincally say he submitted to the One True God. And I understand how he could be called the first Muslim since his son was Ishmael, but wasnt that the son born of a concubine Hagar? |
Muslim is not a race. It is a person who submits to Allah(swt). Ishmael can be called the first Arab but he was not the first Muslim. The First Human Muslim we know of is Adam(PBUH).
There seems to be much confusion among people that Muslim=Arab and Arab=Muslim. But, that is far from the case. Only about 15% of the world's Muslims are Arab and not all Arabs are Muslim. There are also Arabs that are Jewish, Christian, Sabeean, Hindu, etc.