other than this one, as noted above.

What Allah has brought about through Muhammad and his community—remembering the prophets in the finest manner, recounting their histories, praising and extolling them, affirming the obligation to believe in what they brought, declaring anyone who disbelieves in any one of them an unbeliever and putting him to death, putting to death anyone who reviles any of them, and other such ways of honoring their standing—has no parallel in any other religion.

The “foundation of faith” is to worship Allah alone, without any partner, and to believe in His messengers, as He, Exalted is He, says:

“So by your Lord, We will surely question them all about what they used to do.”

Abū al-ʿĀliyah said: “There are two matters about which people will be questioned on the Day of Resurrection: what they used to do and how they responded to the messengers.”

For this reason, Allah establishes these two foundations in numerous places in the Quran. Indeed, He gives them precedence over everything else, for they are the most fundamental principles. This is illustrated by what He mentions in Surah al-Baqarah. He begins it by describing the three categories of people: believers, disbelievers, and hypocrites. This division arose when the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, migrated to Medina. There had been no hypocrisy in Mecca; people were either believers or disbelievers. Al-Baqarah is a Medinan surah, among the earliest revelations sent down in Medina. Allah revealed four verses concerning the believers, two concerning the disbelievers, and more than ten describing the hypocrites. He opened it with faith in all the Books and prophets, placed the same theme at its midpoint, and ended it