Qur'an folio in gold Kufic, 9th c. · Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0

Islam

Tradition·Founded 610 CE·est. ~2 billion worldwide

Islam → 4 branches

Branch
Core tenet of Islam

Life is ordered by submission.

Islam names the act itself: surrender — lived daily through prayer, alms, fasting, and pilgrimage.

Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

Islam names the practice: surrender. The five pillars — witness, prayer, alms, fast, pilgrimage — pattern the day, the year, and the lifetime, so that submission is not a mood but a schedule. The order is livable by a herder or a surgeon; its genius is portability.

From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited

Truly the religion with God is submission.

Quran 3:19

Islam — "submission" — is the word itself.

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