through obedience and decreases through disobedience. Whoever is more obedient has greater faith than someone less obedient.
[Their Position on Those Who Commit Major Sins]
They say that if someone who affirms Allah’s oneness and prays towards the Muslims’ qiblah commits a sin, or many sins, whether minor or major, while continuing to affirm Allah’s oneness and acknowledging the commitments he has undertaken and Allah has accepted, he does not thereby become a disbeliever. They hope for forgiveness for him. Allah Most High said:
“But He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills.” [Al-Nisā’: 48]
[The Ruling on Deliberately Abandoning Prayer]
They differed concerning those who deliberately fail to perform an obligatory prayer until its time has elapsed, without an excuse. A group of them declared such a person a disbeliever (1), on the basis of what was reported