The former view has been upheld by groups of scholars of hadith, jurisprudence, and theology, including followers of Mālik, al-Shāfi‘ī, Ahmad, and others.

Since this is a disputed issue, if such a person says, “We know that letters cannot coexist, just as we know that two opposites, such as blackness and whiteness, cannot coexist,” he is told: “Those Kullābiyyah and Ash‘ariyyah whom you support maintain that the meanings conveyed by ordered letters are, in themselves, a single meaning, and that command, prohibition, and statement are attributes of a single subject. Thus, what is a command is a statement ن, and what is a statement is a prohibition. They also said that in Syriac it was the Gospel.”

There is no doubt that the majority of rational people, both earlier and later, whether they hold that the Quran is uncreated or that it is created ن, say that the falsity of this position is self-evident in several respects.

One is its assertion that a command is identical to a statement.

Another is its assertion that a statement about the Creator, such as the Verse of the Throne, is the same as a statement about a created being, such as:

“May the hands of Abū Lahab be ruined, and ruined is he.”