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الآية رقم (150) - إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَكْفُرُونَ بِاللّهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَيُرِيدُونَ أَن يُفَرِّقُواْ بَيْنَ اللّهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَيقُولُونَ نُؤْمِنُ بِبَعْضٍ وَنَكْفُرُ بِبَعْضٍ وَيُرِيدُونَ أَن يَتَّخِذُواْ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ سَبِيلاً

(150) - (Indeed, those who disbelieve in Allah and His messengers and wish to discriminate between Allah and His messengers and say, "We believe in some and disbelieve in others," and wish to adopt a way in between.)

Faith is one unity which cannot be divided; you have to believe in Allah (swt) and in all His Prophets whom Allah (swt) has chosen among all the humans to carry His messages and religion, so there is a unity in religion:

 شرَعَ لَكُم مِّنَ الدِّينِ مَا وَصَّىٰ بِهِ نُوحًا وَالَّذِي أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ وَمَا وَصَّيْنَا بِهِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ وَعِيسَىٰ ۖ أَنْ أَقِيمُوا الدِّينَ وَلَا تَتَفَرَّقُوا فِيهِ

(He has ordained for you of religion what He enjoined upon Noah and that which We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], and what We enjoined upon Abraham and Moses and Jesus – to establish the religion and not be divided therein.) (Ash-Shura: 13)

The doctrine is one, and the different legislations, over the time, are according to the changing conditions of people. Hence, the issue of faith is a comprehensive and indivisible issue, you cannot claim that you believe in Allah (swt) and do not believe in the Messenger, however, there are some calls now to believe in Allah (swt) regardless believe in the Messengers, and that is only because belief in the Messengers requires commitment.

Allah (swt) states that:

 وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ

(And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.) (Ath-: Thariyat: 56)

No one should think that worship means just prayer, fasting, zakat and Hajj. These are the pillars of Islam. As for worship, it is every good deed that brings benefit to society and to people. The farmer in his field if he does good cultivates and harvests then he is in worship, and the worker in his factory if he masters his work then he is in worship. And the employee is in his job, if he maintains his work time and his work, then he is in worship. So with Ihsan and good deeds, everything that a person does becomes worship of Allah (swt). Whereas the pillars of Islam are stated in this Hadith of the Prophet (saws):

“Islam is based on five things: the testimony that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, the observance of the prayer, the payment of zakat, the Pilgrimage, and the fast during Ramadan.”[1]

These are essential because they are the foundations of Islam. Accordingly, believing in Allah (swt) is connected with believing in His messengers all, not as the Jews did in Medina where they used to argue and say that they believe in Moses and do not believe in Muhammad (saws).

 

[1] Sahih al-Bukhari: Book of Faith, Hadith No. 8.