“Indeed, those who have divided their religion and become sects—you have nothing to do with them.”

The Most High also says:

“Do not be like those who became divided and differed after clear proofs had come to them.”

“They were commanded only to worship Allah, devoting their religion sincerely to Him, being true in faith, to establish prayer and give zakah. That is the upright religion.”

The Most High also says:

“This is My straight path, so follow it, and do not follow other paths, lest they lead you away from His path.”

The Most High says in the Mother of the Book:

“Guide us to the straight path, the path of those You have blessed, not of those who have incurred Your anger, nor of those who have gone astray.”

It is authentically reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:

“The Jews have incurred Allah’s anger, and the Christians have gone astray.”

Thus, He, glorified be He, commands us in the “Mother of the Book”—whose like was not revealed in the Torah, the Gospel, the Psalms, or the Criterion, which our Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was given from a treasure beneath the Throne, and without which no prayer is valid—to ask Him to guide us to the straight path: the path of those He has blessed, not of those who have incurred His anger, such as the Jews, nor of those who have gone astray, such as the Christians.

This “straight path” is the pure religion of Islam. It is what is contained in the Book of Allah Most High, and it is “the Sunnah and the united body of Muslims.” For the pure Sunnah is the pure religion of Islam. It has been reported from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, through multiple chains of transmission recorded by the compilers of Sunan and Musnad collections, such as Imam Ahmad, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and others, that he said:

“There will be division within this