the Last Day, and in the divine decree—its good and its evil, its sweetness and its bitterness—all of it comes from Allah, exalted is He.

We believe in all of this without exception. We make no distinction between any of His messengers; we accept them all and confirm whatever they brought.

Faith, moreover, possesses many qualities, as the Prophet ﷺ said: “Faith has more than seventy branches—or more than sixty—the highest of them is the declaration: ‘There is no god but Allah,’ and the lowest is removing something harmful from the road.” (1) Yet these six remain the pillars and main supports upon which faith stands.

The issues of believing in Allah, the angels, the messengers, and the Books have already been discussed, though they appeared scattered at the beginning of this creed.

It is mandatory to believe in all of these matters; whoever denies even one of these pillars is not a believer, for he has left out a foundation of faith.

We have already stated that one must have faith in every messenger, from the first to the last—those whom Allah has named in the Qur’an and those He has not. We therefore affirm every messenger Allah sent to His servants. Whoever believes in some of them while rejecting others is an unbeliever in them all; if he disavows a single prophet, he has disbelieved in every prophet. Allah says: “Indeed, those who disbelieve in Allah and His messengers and wish to make a distinction between…”