What is your response to those who divide the Shari'ah into the core and the husk?

The Shaykh : I have a few words left in my mind, which I hope will be brief, so that we may make room for some questions regarding the previous topic, if there is a questioner, or regarding other topics. I mentioned to you earlier, more than once in the course of my speech, the noble verse to its end. I want to praise the previous explanation and speech by alerting those present not to look at this issue with a look of indifference and lack of interest, which some people may express by saying, "These are, my brother, secondary issues." Indeed, some may say, "These are from the husk, not the core, so do not occupy us with the husk at the expense of the core, and do not occupy us with trivial matters at the expense of the important ones." So I say, as a warning and advice, and religion is advice as you know, that it is not permissible for a Muslim to utter any of this speech after we have been alerted to the danger of this principle, which is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): Along with that explanation which encompassed many aspects of the texts of the Sunnah and the reports of the Salaf, it is not befitting for a Muslim to say, first of all, generally, that it is not permissible to divide the Shari'ah into core and husk, or into important and unimportant issues, because it is known to all researchers that Islam must be adopted in its entirety, indivisible. This means with its principles and branches, and this means with its obligations and recommended acts. Islam must be carried, first, as knowledge and second, as practice, but within the limits of If you, O Muslim, have chosen for yourself a path in your life similar to that path described by that Bedouin man or that Najdi man when he came asking his Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about what Allah had made obligatory for him, and after He explained to him the five prayers, fasting one month in the year which is Ramadan, and the If a Muslim man chooses the path of this Bedouin or this Najdi, and he does not want to draw near to Allah except with what Allah has made obligatory, then we have no way of criticizing him, but let him beware of criticizing the one who differs from him, who preserves the obligations, preserves the Sunnahs, preserves the recommended and desirable acts, and all acts of worship. Beware of denying any of that with such words as we often hear: "These are trivial matters," "These are husks." Glory be to Allah, these are acts of worship! Why did you call them trivial matters, and sometimes husks? The husks by which some of these people liken some of the prescribed acts of worship are the material husks we see in some known fruits. Allah did not create them in vain; rather, we know by experience that this core would not have benefited us or been useful to us without the husk. So If He created a fruit and surrounded it with a husk, that is for a profound wisdom. Similarly, if Allah the Exalted and Majestic legislated in the Shari'ah matters that are obligatory and others that are below the obligatory, He did not legislate that in vain, but for a great benefit. And we must know this benefit on such an occasion, and it is as it came in the authentic hadith: In another hadith, which is the evidence: So this voluntary act cannot rightly be called one of the trivial matters or the husks, because this voluntary act in the Shari'ah of Allah the Exalted and Majestic, and in the favor of Allah the Exalted and Majestic upon His servants, will stand in place of the obligations that were either neglected entirely or were deficient in practice. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) informs us that Allah the Exalted and Majestic, out of His favor upon His servants on the Day of Resurrection, will say to the angels, "Look, does my servant have any voluntary acts? Complete his obligation with them." So this distinction is not permissible, because both what they call the core or the husk is a desirable, prescribed matter. It is not permissible to belittle the husk, because it is not permissible to belittle the core. And when we belittle the husk, the belittlement reaches the core, as I taught you from the hadith. I want from what has preceded that if there were a core and a husk in Islam, if there were trivial matters in Islam, then this word that came from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), which we explained to you earlier, is from the core of the core. So from the core of the core, if this expression is correct. And I say this with reservation. Why? Because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was not in vain; before every sermon, he would mention to the Companions And for this reason, to confirm what I am saying.