“They extolled God—for He alone is worthy of majesty;
our Lord in the highest heaven is supremely great.
Within the loftiest structure that outstripped all men
He fashioned, above the heaven, a throne—
Soaring, beyond the reach of any mortal eye,
while beneath it the angels appear like figures arrayed.”

They then tried to assign to the Kursī a meaning other than the one we know, and they cited only half a verse—its wording uncertain and its author unknown—saying: “nor does any created thing encompass (yakursīʾu) Allah’s knowledge.” By unanimous agreement the noun kursī is written without a hamzah, whereas the verb yakursīʾu in their quotation is written with one.

They also contended about the Almighty’s words: “Man was created of haste” (21:37)