—requires a servant to act with nobility of character, to do whatever enhances and adorns him in the eyes of people, and to avoid whatever sullies or disgraces him. All forms of modesty, then, are part of faith.

When the Prophet ﷺ was asked about faith, he said, “It is to believe in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and destiny, both its good and its bad.” If you join this report to the previous one, you will see—just as Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamaʿah maintain—that faith embraces creed, speech, and action. It covers the heart’s conviction, the heart’s deeds, the tongue’s utterance, and the limbs’ deeds.

“La ilaha illa Allah” is an utterance of the tongue; removing harm from the road is a deed of the limbs; modesty is an act of the heart; and believing in His angels and His books is a conviction of the heart. Accordingly, faith in the view of Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamaʿah comprises all four: the heart’s belief, the heart’s actions, the tongue’s speech, and the limbs’ actions—and the proofs for this in the Quran and the Sunnah are many.

In this very hadith there is an exhortation to clear harmful objects from pathways. Since that is one of the components of faith, perform it so that your faith may increase and attain perfection. So if you find