his followers call Mu’min al-Tāq (the Believer of al-Tāq), whose name is Muhammad ibn al-Nu‘mān, as well as to Hishām ibn Sālim, known as al-Jawālīqī, and to Abū Mālik al-Hadramī.

He said: “None of these men asserted without qualification that He is a body. Rather, they used to say that He is light in human form, while rejecting the assertion that He is a body. Those who attributed this belief to them inferred it from their statements and reported that inference as their belief, since they held that forms could belong only to bodies. They thus misrepresented them, as did many speculative theologians.”

He mentioned that Hishām ibn Sālim and Abū Ja‘far al-Ahwal, after asserting that He has a form, refrained from speaking about Allah Most High. They turned to the interpretation of a verse