A Response to Those Who Distinguish Between Faith and Action Based on the Verse {Believe and Do Good Deeds}

Question:
May Allah reward you. This questioner says: There are those who distinguish between faith and action, claiming that Allah the Exalted distinguished between them in His saying: He did not distinguish between them. The conjunction here is not for difference, but rather it is an instance of conjoining the specific to the general: "Believe and do good deeds."

Answer:
"Believe" is general, and "do good deeds" is conjoined to it as a specific, because it is included within it. It is like No one says that. The conjunction here is not for difference, but rather to indicate the importance of the thing being conjoined: So there is no doubt that conjunction is not always for difference, and that the conjoined item is not different from the item it is conjoined to. No, yes.