It is obligatory upon you to obey Allah, the Exalted, and His Messenger ﷺ.
Hold firmly to the belief in Tawheed, and maintain separation and enmity towards every form of shirk and taghūt.
Read the Qur’an with understanding so you may know what it commands you to do and what it forbids you from.
Have friendship, compassion, and love for the Muslims, and have enmity and hatred for the kuffār, mushrikīn, and murtaddīn, and declare them disbelievers.
Perform the five daily prayers consisting of 17 obligatory rak‘āt, give zakāh once a year, fast the 30 days of Ramadan once every year, and perform Hajj once in your lifetime if you are able.
Migrate in the path of Allah, strive (do jihād) in His cause, remain firm upon the pledge of allegiance to the Imam, and stay connected to the community of the Muslims.
Do not transgress the limits set by Allah, and avoid to the best of your ability all that He has prohibited. If you fall into sin, then repent. If it happens again, repent again. Even if it happens a hundred times, then repent a hundred times.
And teach all of this to your children, your wives, and anyone under your authority.
Besides this, you will not be questioned regarding Abu Hanifah, Shāfi‘ī, Mālik, Ahmad, any such person, any scholar of hadith or fiqh, any school of thought, any group, any action, any person’s virtues or faults, any fitnah, any law, any event, any disputes between scholars, differing narrations, any victory, any defeat, any book, lecture, speech, group, or individual.
Islam does not place complicated matters upon you. It is a straight, simple, natural religion upon which even an ordinary villager can fully act without getting lost in legalistic complexities.
