that it means the marriage contract has erred in several respects, which we have explained at length elsewhere. We have also discussed this in a separate treatise. It has never been known for speech to be attributed to Allah except speech that Allah Himself has spoken. But suppose that speech attributed to Allah could mean what He has commanded, and suppose that disagreement arose over His words:
“And the word of Allah is supreme.”
Does this mean the word He loves and commands, or the word He Himself has spoken, which is His own command and declaration?
The same applies to his saying—may Allah bless him and grant him peace:
“Whoever fights so that the word of Allah is supreme.”
Whoever says that all these refer to Allah’s own spoken words gives a consistent account of this attribution. Even if someone were to say, “Speech is attributed to Him when He loves it and is pleased with it, even if He has not spoken it,” it would not be possible to regard the Quran’s being