Sunni Islam

Comprising the vast majority of the world’s Muslims, Sunni Islam is the Islamic faith's main denomination from the Arab world where it began to the most distant Andalusian colonies in Meridia.

Beliefs
Muslims believe in the centrality of the Prophet Muhammad, and his written holy book the Quran, as the final source of revelation from God to mankind. God in Islam is singular and infinite, beyond the realm of human understanding and not representable in visual form. Muslims strive for submission, the linguistic root of their name in Arabic, to the will of God and His laws. Sunni Muslims believe that God’s infinite wisdom means that all is preordained, but that there is still importance and success in following the law established by Muhammad. This in practice means a very specific and universal pattern of worship: daily prayer, almsgiving, the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, fasting, and testimony in the name of the Quran and the Muslim community. Muslims believe that by following the will of God, they will be given Paradise on the Day of Judgement when God makes his final accounting of humanity.

Organization
Sunni Islam is very decentralized, with status being conferred by scholarship and consensus on an individual’s knowledge of the religion. Sunni Islam was originally organized with a single Caliph, or successor to Muhammad, as leader of the political and religious community, but over time the realm splintered and the position was no more.