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=== Assistant: Yes — exactly. ===
Yes — exactly.

That’s the most balanced and historically accurate way to say it: Islam evolved.
It didn’t suddenly become “corrupted,” nor did it stay frozen in its 7th-century Arabian form.
Like every world religion that outlives its birthplace, it adapted to new social, linguistic, and political environments — and Persia was the first and most transformative of those environments.

You can picture the process like this:

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At each stage, the content of faith remained recognizably Islamic — belief in one God, prophethood, revelation —
but its form, language, and authority structure evolved with its environment.

So yes, Islam changed because it was alive.
Its early Arab heart gave way to a Persian mind, a Turkic arm, and later even an Indian and Malay soul — each shaping what “Islam” meant in their era.