and to other similar examples (1) whose number (2) we could never fully reckon.

Allah, Exalted is He, says: “He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.” (3)

He also says: “Be patient with your Lord’s decree, for you are under Our eyes.” (4)

And He says: “So that you may be fashioned under My eye.” (5)

And He says: “What prevented you from prostrating to that which I created with My own two hands?” (6)

And He says: “The earth, all of it, will be in His grasp on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens will be rolled up in His right hand. Glorified and exalted is He above what they associate with Him.” (7)

By Allah, nothing led them to grasp the enormity of what He has described of Himself and of all that His grasp encompasses except the very smallness of the corresponding attribute (8) they perceive within themselves (9)—that innate awareness He cast into their souls and implanted in the knowledge of their hearts.

Thus, whatever Allah has described of Himself and named (10) upon the tongue of His Messenger, we name exactly as He has named it. We do not presume to devise for Him any [attribute] (11) beyond that—neither this nor that. We do not deny what He has described, nor do we delve into what He has not described.

Know—may Allah have mercy on you—that protection from error in religion lies in stopping where you have been made to stop and not overstepping the limits set for you, for one of the pillars of the religion is to recognize what is right and to reject what is wrong. Therefore, whatever knowledge has been clarified, to which hearts have found rest, whose basis is stated in the Book and the Sunnah, and whose understanding the Ummah has inherited (12), then do not be afraid, when mentioning it and describing it, of