subsist except in a substance that occupies space, and every spatially-confined entity is therefore either a composite body or a single, indivisible atom. Whoever asserts this has likened Allah to created things, for all bodies are alike.

As for anyone who reports people’s doctrines and brands them with these fabricated labels on the basis of his own creed—a creed from which they themselves dissent—that matter is between him and his Lord. Allah lies in wait for him, and the evil plot engulfs none but its authors.