145 – Now that the merit of ribāṭ (guarding the frontier) has been made clear, consider this example of misguidance: you find certain people—whose professed aim is to draw near to Allah and worship Him with what He loves and approves—living in Syria or nearby. Yet they undertake a journey that the Sacred Law does not prescribe; indeed, it deems it disliked. In doing so they abandon acts they have been commanded to perform, whether obligatory or recommended.