unequivocal passages of the prophets, clinging instead to the shared yet ambiguous notions that arise from analogies and personal opinion, while turning away from the decisive distinctions between them that forbid any fusion or equality. In this they mirror the unbelievers and every other group of innovators and desire-driven sectarians who liken the created to the Creator and the Creator to the created, striking parables for Allah that amount to nothing but mockery.

[What Made the Christians Fall into Disbelief]

The Christians’ false creed is simply an invented religion of their own making, introduced after Christ—peace be upon him. By means of it they altered the religion of Christ, and all who left the law of Christ for what they had fabricated thereby went astray.