its details; the intellect apprehends them only in outline, and so it is with other matters as well. Besides, the leading lights and heavyweight thinkers among them openly acknowledge that the intellect has no route to certainty in most divine questions.

Since this is the case, knowledge of such matters must be taken from the prophets exactly as it comes from them.

The Messenger ﷺ is the most learned of the Ummah and its sincerest well-wisher:

Believers are certain that Allah Most High sent Muhammad ﷺ with guidance and the religion of truth so that He might make it prevail over every other religion, and Allah is sufficient as witness. They also know that he clarified for people everything he conveyed to them about faith in Allah and the Last Day.

Faith in Allah and the Last Day embraces belief in both the origin and the return—that is, belief in creation and resurrection—as Allah combines the two in His words: “Among the people are those who say, ‘We believe in Allah and the Last Day,’ yet they are not believers” (Quran 2:8); and His words: “Your creation and your resurrection are only like that of a single soul; indeed, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing” (Quran 31:28); and His words: “He is the One who originates creation and then brings it back” (Quran 30:27).

Through the tongue of His Messenger ﷺ, Allah Almighty has clarified the matter of believing in Allah and the Day