what He has not described of Himself, that is no different from your denying what He has described. Just as you regard as heinous the refusal of the deniers to acknowledge an attribute Allah has affirmed for Himself, you must regard as equally heinous the contrivance of those who ascribe to Him attributes He has never mentioned.

By Allah, the Muslims who still know what is right—so that through their knowledge it is recognized—and who reject what is wrong—so that through their rejection it is rejected—have become few indeed. They listen to what Allah has said about Himself in His Book and to what has reached them in like manner from His Prophet. No Muslim heart has ever been harmed by hearing these attributes and naming them, nor does any believer burden himself with fabricating a description of some power or inventing for the Lord a name He did not give.

Whatever has been reported from the Messenger ﷺ as a designation for one of his Lord’s attributes carries the same standing