Is action a condition for the validity of faith or a condition for its perfection?
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The Shaykh : What we have understood from the evidence of the Book and the Sunnah, and from the statements of the Imams among the Companions, the Successors, and the Imams of independent legal reasoning, is that whatever action goes beyond the action of the heart and extends to what pertains to the action of the body is a condition for perfection, not a condition for validity. Therefore, the increase and decrease that is well known among the scholars and mentioned in the context of the question only increases or decreases through these actions. There is a very close connection between the action of the heart and the action of the body. As faith increases in the heart, its effects appear on the body, and as the bodily action increases, it returns with an increase in the faith of the heart. This is what we understand from what you referred to earlier regarding the statements of the scholars who were the most knowledgeable people regarding the implications of the Book and the Sunnah. I understood recently that you expanded on this topic and gathered all the evidence that was available to you from the Book of Allah, from the hadiths of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and from the statements of the Imams of the Salaf and those who followed their methodology. This is sufficient and provides a dispensation from elaborating in a time like this, where we are improvising an answer to your question. If there is something that needs clarification or explanation, we will clarify it; otherwise, we will move on to what comes after this question.
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