Thirteenth Point (1):
People are required to treat the words of Allah and His Messenger as the fundamental source to be followed and the guiding model to be emulated, whether they understand their meaning or do not (2). They must have faith in the very wording of the texts, even if they do not comprehend (3) the full reality of their meaning. Anything other than the speech of Allah and His Messenger may never be taken as a primary source in any circumstance, nor is one obliged to accept its wording until its meaning is understood. If its meaning accords with what the Messenger brought, it is accepted; if it conflicts, it is rejected. Should it be ambiguous, containing both truth and falsehood, it is likewise impermissible to affirm it outright or to reject all of its possible meanings. Instead, one must forbid unfettered affirmation or negation of it, or else seek clarification and detail (4).

Yet these people have taken such innovated, ambiguous terms as a primary creed they command, while relegating the verses and hadiths brought by the Messenger to a secondary status—turning away from them and refusing to speak about them. How else could the religion be altered except in this way?

Fourteenth Point:
No human being has the right to oblige others with anything except what Allah and His Messenger have made obligatory, nor to prohibit them from anything except what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden. Whoever makes obligatory something Allah and His Messenger did not make obligatory, or forbids what Allah and His Messenger did not forbid, has introduced into the religion that for which Allah has granted no permission. Such a person resembles those whom Allah censures in His Book among the idolaters and the People of the Scripture, who adopted a religion Allah had not prescribed for them and forbade what He had not