“Do you know of anyone equal to Him?” (Maryam 65).

It is self-evident to every rational person that someone who, on the basis of this verse, tells people that Allah is not upon the Throne, not above the heavens, and so forth, has wandered far from the goal. Such a speaker is either uttering riddles or practising deception; he is certainly not addressing them in clear, plain Arabic.

[Return to the invalid implications entailed by the deniers’ claim:]

The inevitable consequence of this doctrine is that leaving people without any revelation would have been better for them in the very foundations of their religion, because their recourse before the message and after it would be identical; the revelation would have done nothing but increase them in blindness and misguidance.

Glory be to Allah! How is it that neither the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) at any time, nor any of the early generations of the ummah, ever said, “Do not believe what these verses and hadiths indicate; rather, believe only what your rational standards dictate,” or, “Believe such-and-such, for that is the truth, and—”