[The Impossibility that the Later Generations Know More than the Early Ones]:

Then, when these speculative theologians who oppose the Salaf are examined closely, it turns out that they possess not a shred of true knowledge of Allah nor any pure, authentic awareness of Him; they have never encountered so much as a glimpse or trace of it. How, then, could these veiled, deficient, outstripped, bewildered, and reckless people be more knowledgeable of Allah, His names, and His attributes,