—and in another wording reported by Abu Dawud, he would pronounce the takbir in his prayer and then recite these words.

When a servant acknowledges his utter need of Allah, implores Him, and makes a habit of studying the words of Allah, the words of His Messenger, and the words of the Companions, the Successors, and the leading scholars of the Muslims, the way of guidance is opened for him.

[The reason many philosophers and speculative theologians have gone astray in this field]
Furthermore, when a person has examined the furthest limits of the philosophers’ and mutakallimun’s efforts in this matter, and has come to know that most of what they present as proof is in fact a mere sophism, he will realize that the bulk of what they rely upon boils down to a claim with no reality, or to a doubt compounded from a faulty syllogism,