this at the Farewell Pilgrimage to the vast multitude of his community who were present, as his death and departure from them drew near—peace and blessings be upon him—when he said:

“O Allah, have I conveyed the message?”

If, in addition to what he provided—peace be upon him—we needed the methods of reasoning devised by the proponents of innovation to understand what he called us to, then he would not have conveyed the message. For knowing the truth of what he called us to would have required knowledge of those methods they mention, which he had not explained to us. If matters were as they claim, then in his call and his words he would have been like someone speaking in riddles. Had that been so, the hypocrites and all those lying in wait to oppose him would have challenged him on that account, and nothing would have prevented them, just as nothing prevented them from troubling him with demands for signs and disputing with him at every turn. Yet they found no way to impugn him, for he, peace be upon him, left nothing that they needed in order to understand all that he called them to believe,