Likewise, whoever declares Muslims disbelievers or deems it lawful to shed their blood and take their property on the basis of an innovation he has introduced, which is found neither in the Book of Allah nor in the Sunnah of His Messenger, must be forbidden from doing so and punished in a manner that deters him, even by putting him to death or fighting him. When transgressors from all groups are punished and the devout from all groups are honoured, this is among the greatest means of pleasing Allah and His Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and setting the affairs of the Muslims right.

Those in authority—the scholars, leaders and shaykhs of every group—must oversee their people, enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong. They must command them to do what Allah and His Messenger have commanded and forbid them from doing what Allah and His Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, have forbidden.

(The former includes the prescribed observances of Islam: the five daily prayers at their appointed times; establishing Friday prayer and congregational prayers, both obligatory and regularly observed Sunnah prayers, such as the Eid prayers, the eclipse prayer, the prayer for rain, the tarāwīh prayers, funeral prayers and others. It also includes prescribed charity, prescribed fasting and pilgrimage to the Sacred House.

It likewise includes belief in Allah, His angels, His Books, His messengers and the Last Day, and belief in divine decree, both its good and its evil; and excellence in worship, which is to worship Allah as though you see Him, for even though you do not see Him, He sees you.

It also includes everything else that Allah and His Messenger have commanded, inwardly and outwardly, such as devoting one’s religion sincerely to Allah, placing one’s trust in Allah, and loving Allah and His Messenger more than