A
Muslim, sometimes spelled
Moslem, relates to a
person who follows the
religion of
Islam, a
monotheistic and
Abrahamic religion based on the
Quran. Muslims consider the Quran to be the verbatim word of
God as revealed to the
Islamic prophet and messenger Muhammad. They also follow the
sunnah teachings and practices of Muhammad as recorded in traditional accounts called
hadith. "Muslim" is an Arabic word meaning "one who submits (to God)". A female Muslim is sometimes called a
Muslimah. There are customs holding that a man and woman or teenager and adolescent above the age of fifteen of a
lunar or solar calendar who possesses the faculties of
rationality, logic or
sanity, but misses numerous successive
Jumu'ahs without a valid excuse, no longer qualifies as a Muslim.