The phrase al-walāʾ waʾl-barāʾ, meaning “association and dissociation” or “loyalty and disavowal,” is the term used by modern Salafīs and Wahhābīs to capture the duties in question. It is only in the last century or so that this phrase came to be widely adopted in Sunnī Islam. The exact phrase al-walāʾ waʾl-barāʾ is not common in Ibn Taymiyya’s and Ibn al-Qayyim’s writings, but the concept was always there, even if it fell under a different designation.
