from their predecessors that faith consists of affirmation, love of Allah, reverence for Him, awe of Him, and refraining from treating His rights lightly, and that it neither increases nor decreases.

The tenth group of the Murjiʾah consists of the followers of Abū Muʿādh al-Tawminī. They claim that faith is whatever safeguards a person from disbelief. It is a term denoting qualities such that whoever abandons them, or abandons any one of them, becomes an unbeliever. Thus, those qualities whose abandonment—whether collectively or individually—renders a person an unbeliever constitute faith. Yet no single quality is called faith or a part of faith.

As for any act of obedience, if a person neglects it and there is no unanimous agreement