Clarification that faith is speech, belief, and action, and that it increases and decreases.

The Shaykh : This faith is the correct statement of the two views mentioned earlier, because the hadiths, in addition to the verses, confirm that when faith is mentioned in the Noble Qur'an and the authentic Sunnah, it means, in addition to belief and verbal affirmation, action through righteous deeds as well. This is the known position of the Hanafi scholars, both past and present, who adopt the first view, while the majority hold the opposite position and adopt the other view. As for the verses and hadiths, they are known, praise be to Allah, and they explicitly state that faith is always accompanied by righteous deeds. The closest text that most Muslims recall is Surat al-'Asr: . So our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, whenever He mentions faith, He pairs it with righteous deeds. Likewise, the hadiths are continuous and mass-transmitted that faith is not only speech and belief, but also action. One hadith is sufficient for us, and it is the hadith whose authenticity is agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim, namely his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): . Then another hadith: . The point is that the verses and hadiths are numerous, and very numerous, supporting the school of the scholars who said that righteous deeds are part of faith. The purpose of this is not to confirm that this view is the correct one, but to emphasize that the disagreement is not only in the branches, but also in the fundamentals, and that this disagreement in the fundamentals also leads to disagreement in the branches, which are from the fundamentals.