Therefore we must occupy ourselves—and those we invite to our call—by explaining authentic Islam to them and nurturing them properly. If instead we engross them in rousing, sentimental issues, we will only keep them from mastering the mission that every accountable Muslim must shoulder: correcting creed, correcting worship, and correcting conduct. These are individual obligations (fard ʿayni) for which no negligence is excusable. Other matters, however, are in some cases collective duties (fard kifāʾi), such as what is nowadays called fiqh al-wāqiʿ (the jurisprudence of current realities) and engagement in political activity, which falls under the responsibility of the ahl al-ḥall wa’l-ʿaqd—the decision-makers who can actually put such knowledge into practice. When a few individuals who have no authority to bind or loose busy themselves with these subjects and divert the general public from what is most essential to what is merely important, they only turn them away from sound understanding. We feel this tangibly in many of the programs adopted by contemporary Islamic parties and groups: some of them have abandoned teaching the Muslim youth who rally around these preachers so that they might learn and grasp sound creed, sound worship, and sound conduct—only to find those very preachers preoccupied with political work and attempts to enter parliaments that rule by other than what Allah has revealed