WHO IS A MUSLIM?
A Muslim is a man who had given up his "hostility" to Islam and entered into a patronage relationship with an Arab master. This relation was called "Muwalat".
The designation mu'min stood in contrast to the term "kafir" denoting the one rejecting the monotheistic revelation as Hazarat Muhammad had received it.
The term mu'min seems to have been reserved for the first adherents to Islam - the Arabs. Therefore the definition of the term `amir al-mu'minin receives a new and narrower meaning, i.e. the prince of the Arab believers whose security was assured.
The mu'min receives the free protection of his leader.
The "dhimmi" on the other hand will not receive free protection and is a "non-Arab of inferior status".
Therefore any submitted non-Arabic person is not a mu'min, but a mawla of an inferior status.
Islam thus denotes a total "submission and entering into peace and pronouncing the creed and giving up hostility that one has shown".
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The term mu'min seems to have been reserved for the first adherents to Islam - the Arabs. Therefore the definition of the term `amir al-mu'minin receives a new and narrower meaning, i.e. the prince of the Arab believers whose security was assured.
The mu'min receives the free protection of his leader.
The "dhimmi" on the other hand will not receive free protection and is a "non-Arab of inferior status".
Therefore any submitted non-Arabic person is not a mu'min, but a mawla of an inferior status.
Islam thus denotes a total "submission and entering into peace and pronouncing the creed and giving up hostility that one has shown".
