Semantic domain: Social interpersonal relationships—Root: ء ن س

to repair to or direct one's course to a thing to seek with aim. Ummah is a way, course, manner or mode of  acting/conduct.

This Root denotes two primary inter-related concepts of mother, race, roots and group on the one hand; on the other, front, main road, leader, example and direction.

It signifies the source, origin, foundation, or basis of a thing, or of anything; its stay, support, or efficient cause of subsistence. Anything to which other things are collected, or adjoined. The main or chief part of a thing; the main body thereof; and that which is a compriser, or comprehender of [other] things; the place of collection, or comprisal, or comprehension, of a thing, the place of combination thereof....And hence the head, or Chief, of a people, or company of men; because others collect themselves together to him.

A way, course, mode, or manner, of acting, or conduct, or the like. A rule of life, or conduct.

"Means Vulgar persons [or, heathen,] who know not the Book of Law revealed to Moses [Jel]; or ignorant persons who know not writing, so that they may read that book ; or who know not the Book of Law revealed to Moses [Bd]

It means the point upon which your gaze is turned and concentrated.