—to it⦗1⦘. The outcome of all that was this pronouncement of his, by which he rejects Allah—exalted is He—and His Messenger ﷺ, thereby setting himself against the Muslims, against Paradise, and indeed against all mankind. How, then, could you be content to take him as an imām in place of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?! How could you give precedence to his word over the word of Allah, exalted be He?!

And how could you flout the consensus of the Muslims on the strength of nothing more than his lone assertion—without any proof at all—merely out of blind imitation and submission to his opinion?!

What a wretched exchange: the methodology of Jahm for the methodology of the trustworthy son of Āmina!

Your very conduct proclaims, as it were, that the truth eluded the Lord of all worlds, His truthful and trustworthy Messenger, and the Companions and Followers who came after them.