anything about utterance or pausing is, in their estimation, an innovator; one must neither say, “Uttering the Qur’an is created,” nor say, “It is uncreated.”

They affirm that Allah will be seen with the eyes on the Day of Resurrection, just as the full moon is seen on the night when it is full: the believers will behold Him, whereas the unbelievers will not, for they are veiled from Allah. The Exalted says: “No indeed! On that Day they shall be veiled from their Lord” (83:15).

He then mentioned their position on Islam, faith, the Basin (ḥawḍ), intercession, and other matters, and went on to say: They hold that faith is word and deed; it increases and decreases. They do not declare it to be created, nor do they testify that any particular person from among those guilty of major sins will be consigned to the Fire.

He added: They repudiate debating, quarreling, and contentious disputation in matters of religion, as well as the formal arguments over which the dialecticians contend. Instead, they submit to sound narrations and to the reports that have come down through trustworthy transmitters, each upright narrator conveying them from