[His statement concerning the Divine Names and Attributes in general]:

Earlier he wrote under the heading, “A chapter on believing in the Attributes of Allah, exalted is He, and His Names.” He said: “Know that those who are truly versed in the knowledge of Allah and in what His prophets and messengers have brought consider ignorance of whatever Allah has not disclosed about Himself to be sound knowledge, and consider abstaining from matters to which He has not summoned us to be genuine faith. Thus, when they describe Him by His Attributes and His Names, they stop where He has stopped in His Book and on the tongue of His Prophet.

Allah, the Most High—and He is the truest of speakers—says: ‘Everything will perish except His Face’ (Q 28:88); He also says: ‘Say: What thing is greatest in testimony? Say: Allah is witness between me and you’ (Q 6:19); and He says: ‘Allah warns you of Himself’ (Q 3:30); and He says: ‘When I have fashioned him and breathed into him of My spirit’ (Q 38:72); and He says: ‘Indeed you are under Our eyes’ (Q 52:48); and He says: ‘That you may be raised under My eye’ (Q 20:39); and He says: ‘The Jews say, “The hand of Allah is fettered.” Fettered are their own hands, and they are cursed for what they say. Rather, both His hands are outstretched’ (Q 5:64); and He, the Exalted, says: ‘The whole earth will be in His grasp on the Day of Resurrection’ (Q 39:67); and He says: