Acquaintance with the States of the Servants and the Devout, he said: “What Satan brings to those who repent.” He explained that the devil first plunges them into despair, then into self-conceit and long-winded hope, and finally into matters of tawḥīd. He continued: One of the most serious forms of whispering is to cast doubt about tawḥīd itself, or about the Lord’s attributes—either by likening Him to creation and drawing analogies, or by denying those attributes altogether and stripping Him of them. Then, after citing the ḥadīth on these misgivings, he said: “Know—may Allah have mercy upon you—that everything which…"