Nor is it unlawful to imitate any one of them; what is unlawful is to follow a person who speaks without knowledge.

If, however, someone adds to the Shari‘ah what does not belong to it—such as fabricated ḥadiths, or interpreting the scriptural texts contrary to Allah’s intent, and the like—such conduct is a form of distortion. It therefore becomes essential to distinguish between the revealed law, the interpreted law, and the altered law, just as one distinguishes between the ontological reality and the prescriptive religious reality, and between what is established by the Book and the Sunnah and what is based solely on an individual’s personal taste or inner feeling.

[Cosmic Will]

In His Book, Allah has set out the difference between will, command, decree, permission, prohibition, raising up, sending, speech, and making, and between the cosmic order that He has created, measured out, and decreed—though He neither commanded it, nor loves it, nor rewards its practitioners, nor counts them among His God-fearing allies—and the religious order that He has commanded and legislated, for which He rewards and honors those who practice it, making them His devout allies, His successful party, and His victorious hosts. This is one of the greatest distinctions by which one separates the friends of Allah from His enemies: whoever the Lord, exalted be He, employs in what He loves and approves of, and who dies upon that, is one of His allies, whereas whoever’s deeds are in what the Lord despises and detests, and who dies upon that, is one of His enemies.