to acknowledge Allah, His angels, His scriptures, and His messengers; to accept everything that has come from Allah and everything reliable transmitters have related from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), rejecting none of it; to believe that Allah is One, unique, the Self-Sufficient, that there is no deity besides Him, and that He has taken neither consort nor child; that Muhammad is His servant and His messenger; that Paradise is real and Hell is real; that the Hour will surely come, without any doubt; that Allah will resurrect those in the graves; that Allah is above His Throne, as He says, “The Most Merciful is established above the Throne” (20:5); that He has two hands, without asking how, as He says, “I created you with My two hands” (38:75) and “Rather, both His hands are outstretched” (5:64); that He has two eyes, without asking how, as He says, “sailing under Our eyes” (54:14); and that He has a face, as He says, “Yet there will remain the Face of your Lord, full of majesty and honor” (55:27).

They also hold that the names of Allah are not something other than Allah Himself, as the Muʿtazilites and the Khārijites claimed. They affirm that Allah possesses knowledge, as He says, “He sent it down with His knowledge” (4:166) and “No female bears or gives birth except with His knowledge” (35:11). Likewise, they affirm for Him hearing and sight, and they do not negate these attributes as the Muʿtazilites did,