Contenting Oneself with the Two Testimonies While Abandoning Deeds

The questioner:
The Shaykh said: May Allah love you. Is it sufficient for us to ask for the two testimonies along with the deed of asceticism only, since it is a deed that is obligatory and has a special proximity to Allah, along with zakah, fasting, and prayer, and the ruling of Allah and His Messenger, but he asks for prayer negligently or due to lack of knowledge?

The Shaykh:
This is the statement of the erring ones, the statement of those who say that faith is speech with the tongue and belief in the heart, and that deeds are not included in it. This is not the statement of the people of the Sunnah; I mean, it is not the statement of the majority of the people of the Sunnah. The statement of the majority of the people of the Sunnah is that deeds are included in faith, and that abandoning deeds either removes faith entirely, such as abandoning prayer, or it diminishes faith. Yes.

The questioner:
And the Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him) said: If Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, forbids the sinners and the followers from accepting the truth, O you who are not in a state of accepting the truth, is it permissible for me to come and say, "Why did Allah not make you in a state of accepting the truth?" Is it not the case that, generally, He is above their calling, as He said: "And if Allah had willed, He would have made them all one community."

The Shaykh:
Yes, the one after it. This is a question that has no place: “Why does Allah do such and such?” Yes.