Ibn Rushd the Younger says in the book he composed in response to Abū Hāmid’s Tahāfut al-Falāsifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers), which he entitled Tahāfut al-Tahāfut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence): “Who has said anything about divine matters that can be relied upon?” Abū al-Hasan al-Āmidī, in most of his books, suspends judgment on the major questions: he exposes the flaws in the various schools’ arguments, yet remains bewildered and undecided.

Al-Khūnajī, who wrote on the secrets of logic and entitled his book Kashf al-Asrār (Unveiling the Secrets), said when death approached:

“I die having learned nothing except that the contingent depends on the impossible.”

Then he said:

“Dependence is a negative attribute. I die having learned nothing.”

Al-Tilimsānī related this from him, stating that he had heard him say it as he was dying.

Thus you find that Abū Hāmid—despite his exceptional intelligence and devotion, his knowledge of speculative theology and philosophy, and his pursuit of asceticism, spiritual discipline, and Sufism—ultimately suspends judgment on these questions and refers one, in the end, to the way of the people of spiritual unveiling. Nevertheless, he subsequently returned to the way of the scholars of hadith and died while studying Sahīh al-Bukhārī.