Similarly, Ibn Hūd, when he embarked upon this course and sought to present himself with a matter greater than anything with which the prophets had come, began speaking about the three law-bearing prophets—Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, peace be upon them. Then he introduced a fourth, the Awaited One, whom he proclaimed superior to those three, hoping to be that fourth himself or even stating it outright. In the idiom of the philosophers he would say, “Moses concerns the body, Jesus the soul, and Muhammad the intellect.” Or he would declare: “Subḥān Allāh for Moses, al-ḥamdu li-llāh for Jesus, lā ilāha illā Allāh for Muhammad, and Allāhu akbar for this Awaited Fourth.” He would also claim: “Moses possesses the knowledge of certainty (ʿilm al-yaqīn), Jesus the vision of certainty (ʿayn al-yaqīn), Muhammad the truth of certainty (ḥaqq al-yaqīn), while this fourth holds the very reality of the truth itself.”