The ruling on whether deeds are a condition for the validity of faith

Question:
May Allah reward you. The Honorable Shaykh says: What is the correct answer to this question? Are deeds a condition for the validity of faith, or a condition for its perfection?

Answer:
According to the people of the Sunnah and the community and the scholars, there is no doubt in their view that deeds are part of faith. Therefore, they define it by saying: Faith is speech with the tongue, belief in the heart, and action with the limbs. It increases with obedience and decreases with disobedience.
As for if it were a condition, it would be external. A condition is external to the conditioned thing. So it is not said that faith is a condition for faith, nor is it said that deeds are a condition for faith. Rather, it is said that deeds are part of faith, included in its essence. This is the position of the people of the Sunnah and the community. We have seen in this time that those who deal with them have started digging up obscure issues and displaying them to cause confusion among the people. Among these is this issue: Are deeds a condition for the perfection of faith or a condition for its validity?
Deeds are included in faith, in the essence of faith. So they are part of the essence of faith, not a condition for it, because a condition is external to the conditioned thing. This is misguidance.