the prayer, paying the zakat, fasting during Ramadan, and making the pilgrimage to the House). For that reason, when the Prophet ﷺ stood on ʿArafah, Allah Most High revealed: “Today I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favor upon you, and chosen Islam for you as your religion” (5:3).
[Islam in its specific and general senses]
People have differed about the former followers of Moses and Jesus—were they Muslims or not? The debate is purely verbal, for the specific Islam with which Allah sent Muhammad ﷺ, embodied in the Quranic law, is binding only upon the community of Muhammad ﷺ, and when the term Islam is used without qualification today it refers to this. As for the general Islam, which comprises every dispensation with which