What is the Relationship Between Islam and Yahadut (Judaism)?
In Rabbeinu Bachya ibn Paqudah’s “Fourth Gate” of his Duties of the Hearts (Al-Hidayat ila al-Fara’id al-Qulub), we find in the Bab al-Tawakkul (Gate of Reliance on God alone) an unexpected term: Istislam. This Arabic term denotes Absolute, Complete Surrender to God alone, and it is related, directly to the word Islam. The Duties was …