Allah the Exalted also says:

“O you who believe, be staunch in your devotion to Allah, bearing witness in equity. Let not the hatred of a people move you to abandon justice. Be just; that is nearer to mindfulness of Allah.” (Sūrat al-Māʾidah, 8)

Thus Allah commands the believers to act justly toward the disbelievers, even though they detest them with a hatred that Allah and His Messenger have prescribed. The Exalted likewise says:

“If you judge between them, then judge with fairness.” (Sūrat al-Māʾidah, 42)

And He says:

“Do not transgress; indeed, Allah does not love the transgressors.” (Sūrat al-Baqarah, 190)

The people of innovation then debated them about the universe’s origination, the Resurrection, the Divine attributes, and prophethood, attributing to the Muslims’ religion statements found neither in the Book of Allah nor in any ḥadīth of the Messenger of Allah, statements never voiced by a single Companion, a Successor who followed them in excellence, or any Imam of the Muslims. Rather, such claims were taken from the newly-invented speculative theologians—reviled by the Salaf and the leading scholars—whose roots trace back to the Jahmiyyah and the Muʿtazilah.

Consequently, the “principles” cited by these innovators and their supporters—some of which they ascribe to Allah, His Messenger, and the religion of Islam, and over which they argue before people who know nothing but the sayings of innovators, scholastic theologians, and irreligious philosophers—have come to be imagined, even proclaimed, as the consensus of the Muslims, so that whoever rejects them is deemed outside the religion. In truth, those principles are but newly-minted innovations in Islam that contradict the words of Allah, His Messenger, the Companions, and the Successors in righteousness.

Elsewhere we have discussed at length Allah’s creation of the heavens and the earth in six days, presenting the evidence from the Qur’an, authentic ḥadīths, the statements of the Companions and Successors, and what is likewise reported concerning the Resurrection, such as the rending of the sky