and this is a multiplicity incompatible with monotheism. Or they also say that affirming the attributes entails multiplicity and number within His essence, which is contrary to monotheism. They call themselves “the monotheists,” and the discipline that teaches this “the science of monotheism.”

For them, this is the first of the five principles: monotheism, justice, the intermediate position between the two positions, fulfilment of the threat of punishment, and enjoining right and forbidding wrong. It was from this that Muhammad ibn al-Tūmart took this title and named