Transmitting Ibn al-Qayyim's words regarding the necessity of the heart's action.

Khalid al-Anbari: Perhaps I will clarify this.

The Shaykh: Yes.
Khalid al-Anbari: With a word from Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) that clarifies what I want to reach.

The Shaykh: Yes.
Khalid al-Anbari: In it, Ibn al-Qayyim clarifies that faith is speech and action. Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) says: "Faith is speech and action. Speech is the speech of the heart and the tongue, and action is the action of the heart and the tongue. The explanation of this is that whoever knows Allah with his heart but does not affirm it with his tongue is not a believer; as He said regarding the people of Pharaoh: . These people had the speech of the heart, which is knowledge and awareness, but they were not thereby believers. Therefore, whoever says with his tongue what is not in his heart is not thereby a believer, but is among the hypocrites. Likewise, whoever knows with his heart and affirms with his tongue is not thereby a believer by that alone, until he performs the action of the heart: love, hatred, loyalty, and enmity. He loves Allah and His Messenger, shows loyalty to the awliya (close friends of Allah), and is hostile to their enemies. He submits his heart to Allah alone, and submits to following His Messenger and obeying Him, adhering to His Shari'ah outwardly and inwardly. And if he does that, it is not sufficient for the perfection of his faith until he does what he was commanded to do. These four pillars are the pillars of faith upon which its structure is built."
The point of Ibn al-Qayyim's word is the necessity of the heart's action. A person may believe in Islam and then mock the verses of Allah and His messengers, while the affirmation of the verses of Allah and His messengers is settled in his heart, but he mocks them. This is a loss of the heart's action. It was incumbent upon him to revere Allah and His Messenger along with the affirmation. By lacking this pillar, he has committed disbelief in the Great Allah. Because the pillars of faith, as we have now learned from Ibn al-Qayyim, are: "Speech is the speech of the heart and the tongue, and action is the action of the heart and the limbs." The action of the heart is a pillar. This one who mocks the verses of Allah and His messengers, even if some of them are believers, has lost this solid pillar of the actions of faith.
Therefore, disbelief is not only by denial, nor is it by lack of affirmation. A person may fall into disbelief while being a believer, as Iblis the accursed was a believer, but he was arrogant about prostrating as his Lord and our Lord (Blessed and Exalted is He) commanded. Likewise, Pharaoh was a believer: .
So it may be—and this is the summary of the matter—that a person may be a believer and yet fall into disbelief due to the absence of the heart's action from him. He mocks the verses of Allah and His messengers, while he believes in Islam, and the heart's action of reverence, magnification, and loyalty to Allah and His messengers has been absent from him. This approach, to the extent of my knowledge, is the approach of the Murji'ah. I mean that disbelief is only by denial. Therefore, it was incumbent upon us to know disbelief according to the Murji'ah, so that it becomes clear to the listeners that the Salafis do not follow this approach. I mean the approach of the Murji'ah in declaring someone a disbeliever. And if faith according to the Murji'ah, with the differences among their sects, as we spoke about previously, is clarified for us, then it is easy and accessible to know disbelief according to the Murji'ah. The Murji'ah...

The Shaykh : Pardon me.