All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Our position concerning these texts is exactly what Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) affirmed, together with the earliest forerunners among the Emigrants and the Helpers and those who followed them with excellence, and what the Imams of guidance—whose soundness of direction and depth of knowledge the Muslim community unanimously acknowledges—have declared. This is the duty of all people in this and every other matter, for Allah sent Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) with guidance and the religion of truth so that, by their Lord’s permission, he might lead humankind from darkness into light and onto the path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy. Allah also bore witness that He sent him as a caller to Him, by His permission, and as a radiant lamp, and He ordered him to say: “Say: This is my way; I call to Allah with clear insight—I and whoever follows me” (Yūsuf 108).

The Prophet’s flawless clarification of the subject of faith in Allah—both in creed and in word:

It is inconceivable, whether judged by reason or by religion, that this Radiant Lamp through whom Allah brought people out of darkness into light, with whom He sent down the Book in truth so that he might judge between them in their disputes, and whom He commanded the people to refer their religious disagreements back to what he brought of the Book and the wisdom, while he calls to Allah and to His path by His permission upon