and grant him peace, brought, whose heart rests in faith, and who feels no inner urge to seek evidence, because Allah has granted him success and eased his way toward the goodness and felicity for which he was created. Such people have no need of proof and need not be required to seek it through reasoning.

“These constitute the majority of people: ordinary people, women, merchants, craftsmen, farmers, devout worshippers, and the leading hadith scholars who condemn speculative theology, disputation, and wrangling over religion.”

He said:

“These are those concerning whom Allah Most High said:

‘He has endeared faith to you and made it pleasing in your hearts, and has made disbelief, defiance, and disobedience hateful to you. Those are the rightly guided—a bounty and blessing from Allah. And Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.’

And Allah Most High said:

‘Whomever Allah wills to guide, He opens his breast to Islam; and whomever He wills to lead astray, He makes his breast tight and constricted, as though he were ascending into the sky.’

He said:

“Allah has thus called rightly guided those in whose hearts He has made faith pleasing, to whom He has endeared it, and to whom He has made sins hateful, as a bounty and blessing from Him. This is Allah’s creating faith in their hearts from the outset, and on their tongues,