The unifying idea
This axis brings together loyalty and disavowal, mutual acquaintance, and multiple affiliations, then links Islam to righteous action. The result is a social vision that places mutual acquaintance and action before exclusion and enmity.
Theses included in the axis
- Loyalty is a multiple social choice, not submission to authority
- Disavowal is a regulated dissociation, not open enmity
- Mutual acquaintance and multiple belonging make a community without contradiction
- Islam is a practical value, not a verbal identity
Support for the axis from the atoms
- Loyalty is an optional social relationship
- Loyalty varies according to levels of belonging
- Disavowal is dissociation, not absolute enmity
- Disavowal has specific conditions and domains
- Mutual acquaintance is a divine purpose for making people into nations and tribes
- Multiple levels of belonging
- Islam is based on righteous action
- Loyalty and disavowal follow conduct
How to read it
This page should be read as a redefinition of the relationship between the community and the individual. Belonging here is multiple, mutual acquaintance is foundational, and conduct is the criterion of value.