Let Us Be Muslims

This is a book of admoni-tion and exhortation, of advice and counsel. Its purpose is toinspire people to obey God, to refrain from disobeying Him,and to be sincere to Him. This being my purpose, would the Muftis have advised meto convince the Muslims that the Prayer, Fasting, Hajj,Zakah were all an unnecessary appendage, and that theycould remain Muslims without them? My position on the relationship between faith and deedsand the conditions for the excommunication of Muslims hasbeen fully explained in other articles that I have written onthis very subject.