on kalām (speculative theology) and its proponents, he said: “As for the attributes you have asked about, those that appear in the Book and the Sunnah, the creed of the early generations is to affirm them and leave them upon their obvious wording, while denying any enquiry into their modality or any resemblance to creation. Some people have rejected them altogether, thereby negating what God has affirmed; others, though professing affirmation, have pursued it in such a way that they slipped into a form of anthropomorphism and specification of ‘how’. Only…"