More than once, I have heard Muslims say that all the prophets from the Old Testament + Jesus were "Muslim"

More than once, I have heard Muslims say that all the prophets from the Old Testament + Jesus were "Muslim".

Is this what Muslims really believe, and if so, how on earth do they rationalise it?

Most Muslims are no different than any other religious person. Half of the women don't even understand dress code and dress like sluts. Most hardly pray or fast. They couldn't answer your questions.

But yes Islam is an Abrahamic religion.

And they consider the prophets of the Old Testament+ Jesus as Prophets of Allah.
They consider anyone who serves Allah a Muslim.

The Jews followed Moses. When Jesus came some converted to him called Christianity. When Muhammad came all of them were Muslims but now Christians and Jews that didn't convert to following Muhammad are called people of the book.

>How does this irrational religious group rationalize their irrational beliefs

Eeh I wouldn't call them muslim but they are allah's prophets so in a sense you could say that they are muslim.

Didn't they consider Alexander the Great a muslim too?

no

Muslim means "one who submits", in this case to the will of God.

All the prophets submitted to the will of God and are thus muslims. Their shari'a was different, given to their people and time, but the overarching theme was that they all submitted to their lord.

Axeshualy, they don't consider Jews and Christians muslims, but they consider them servants to Allah in their own way.

There is no Islamic dress code, there's an Arab dress code that a lot of them adopted but they don't have to wear that head bullshit to be modest

>how on earth do they rationalise it
they don't.
it isn't exclusive to muslims either, you'll hear this shit eventually from christians and jews as well.

of course they were. they were all prophets of islam and even if the last prophet always overrides the older ones they are still part of the same continuum.

Judaism and Christianity are all corrupted versions of Islam. All prophets have been serving Allah's will but it's all been corrupted in time. Except Muhammed's Islam is pure and never corrupted.

That's Islam not Muslim. Muslim is one who follows the prophet Muhammad

Everything but your hand and face is considered naked for women at least among halafi Sunni Muslims

In the Quran, when you hear the term Muslim used to refer to someone from Biblical times, the meaning is akin to 'believer.' Like, David was a believer in God, so he was a Muslim.

Yes
He's called Dhual Cornain in the quran

The Quaran is the antithesis of the Bible. Mohammed took from the Bible what was useful to his ideology and then set about twisting Biblical scripture in order to make it as a new religion to gather together disparate Arab tribes.

The Quran is a blasphemy to the God of the Bible.

They believe that each prophet followed the correct ways of the Abrahamic Religion, which they believe to be the Islam they practice today. What's so hard to understand?

You must be a little slow in the head if you couldn't come to a conclusion yourself

Islam simply translates to submission (to god), all the prophets submitted themselves to god, therefore they were Muslim.

No one is sure who exactly Dhul-Qarnayn is, some argue Alexander, others Cyrus, and plenty of other guesses. Also at the time the knowledge of Alexander throughout most of the Middle East was pure legend, they viewed him the same way a lot of Asians view Genghis Khan, despite being victims of him.

I wonder how many normies really have no sense of chronology. Like not knowing ancient Egypt and islam didn't exist at the same time.