to repugnant figurative interpretations and objectionable metaphors, and then consign them, in their quest to know the truth, to the verdicts of their intellects and the dictates of their opinions.

Yet he is the very one who said, “I have left you upon a radiant clarity whose night is like its day; no one deviates from it after me except the doomed.” (1) He also said, “Allah has not sent any prophet without it being incumbent upon him to guide his community to the best he knows for them and to warn them against the worst he knows for them.” (2) Abu Dharr said, “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, passed away, and there was not a bird flapping its wings in the sky but that he had given us knowledge concerning it.” (3) ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab said, “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, once stood among us and recounted the beginning of creation until the people of Paradise entered their abodes and the people of Hell entered theirs; whoever retained it retained it, and whoever forgot it forgot it.” Al-Bukhari narrated this. (4)

And it is also reported: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, led them in a prayer…”