so it cannot be said that revelation has remained silent about what needs to be known concerning the meaning of “body,” whether in negation or affirmation.

Moreover, if the denier can negate his intended meaning through revelation and reason without employing a term whose implications are disputed, then the prescribed course is to negate that meaning through scriptural and rational proofs that cannot be disputed, rather than pursuing other disputed meanings, which unquestionably entail lengthy, exhausting discussion and may, moreover, be false.

It is well known that someone who abandons the straight road leading to Mecca and takes a distant route without any overriding benefit has abandoned what he is commanded to do and undertaken something useless or forbidden—if that route does lead to the destination. But if there is doubt as to whether it leads there or leads to destruction, taking it is impermissible.

These paths followed by those who deny corporeality and others like them are, at best, long and crooked: they may lead to destruction, or they may reach the destination. Had they been straight paths leading to the destination, the early generations would not have turned away from them. What, then, if they are known with certainty to lead to destruction?!

There is no doubt that those who oppose the Quran and Sunnah do so only through these people’s methods. They turn away from Allah’s Book at the outset of their journey and oppose it at its end.

And He said—He, Most High, said:

“Then if guidance comes to you from Me, whoever follows My guidance will neither