Islam began in Arabia and was revealed to humanity by the Prophet Muhammad. Those who follow Islam are called Muslims. Muslims believe that there is only one God. The Arabic word for God is Allah.
The word Islam means "surrender, submission, obedience, sincerity, peace", or the total surrender of oneself to God (Arabic: Allāh). The Qur'an calls Jews and Christians "People of the Book" (ahl al-kitāb), and distinguishes them from polytheists.
Muslims believe that parts of the previously revealed scriptures, the Tawrat (Torah) and the Injil (Gospels), had become distorted—either in interpretation, in text, or both.
In response to those who doubt the (Authorship of the Quran), Allah almighty has challenged the most articulate Arabs to produce a whole book, ten chapters or even one solitary chapter which can be remotely comparable to the Quran. But to this day, no one has succeeded in meeting the challenge of the almighty.
Say, if the whole of mankind and Jinn’s were to gather together to produce the like of this Quran, they could not produce the like thereof; even if they backed up each other with help and support.
God is described in a chapter (sura) of the Qur'an as:
God, the One and Only; God, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him.
