The Shaykh’s warning against the bad saying held by some, namely that “religion is just the husk and the kernel.”

The Shaykh : And based on that, some of them utter words that, if they meant what they said, the Shari'ah would rule that they have committed apostasy. This is because they call this concern with the outward aspects of matters, especially those related to the bodies, “the husk,” or say that it is among the trifles of matters. We have often heard this and read it in some treatises. This is negligence of this scientific and Shari'ah reality, which, after Islam, became an empirical scientific reality. What they call today psychology has established for them that the outward appearance, whether good or bad, affects the inward state; that is, weakness or strength affects the heart’s weakness or strength. They have finally established this, whereas Islam, as is its constant and eternal habit, was ahead of them in this. It has now been established by their experiments that if a person changes his appearance, his nature and morals are affected. They give a very simple example for this: they say that the same person differs in moments due to the difference in his attire and clothing. For example, the poor man who finds no clothing with which to adorn himself wears a tattered garment, so he walks on the earth in humiliation and degradation, even though in his own reality he is not so. But this clothing makes him feel lowly and humiliated, so he walks like that. If this same person is enabled or given the opportunity to wear beautiful, luxurious clothing, his appearance changes and his gait changes. Whereas you saw him a moment ago walking with the gait of a humble, poor person, now you see him standing straight and walking on the earth with strength, pride, and arrogance. What has happened to this man who used to walk that degrading walk? He was previously affected by his tattered clothing, and then he was affected by his beautiful, luxurious clothing. They mention this example to show that the outward affects the inward.