that they said: “Faith consists of speech and action.” (1)
By “speech,” they meant the affirmation of the heart and the speech of the tongue; by “action,” they meant the deeds of the heart and the limbs.

Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah ~ said in The Wāsitī Creed: “Among the fundamental principles of Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamāʿah is that religion and faith consist of speech and action: the affirmation of the heart and the speech of the tongue, and the deeds of the heart, tongue, and limbs.” (2)

It is thus clear that the term “faith” encompasses everything Allah and His Messenger have commanded: beliefs, intentions, deeds of the heart, utterances of the tongue, and deeds of the limbs—both doing and refraining.
This includes performing obligatory and recommended deeds,