Muslims, and some of it is unanimously rejected by Muslim scholars of all groups, apart from what is reported of extreme corporealists—that they liken Him to created bodies. As for the specific meaning intended by those who deny corporeality and those who affirm it, saying, “He is a body unlike other bodies,” this is the point disputed among the leading speculative theologians and others. The various groups that deny it contradict themselves by affirming what necessarily entails it, just as those who affirm it contradict themselves by denying its necessary implications.

For this reason, the position of the imams of Islam is that they do not use newly introduced, disputed expressions, whether to deny or affirm, without first seeking clarification and making the necessary distinctions. They affirm the meanings affirmed by the Quran and Sunnah and deny the meanings denied by the Quran and Sunnah.

The point here is that the monotheism which Allah revealed His Books and sent His messengers to proclaim, which is mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah, and which is necessarily known to be part of the religion of Islam, is not these three matters mentioned by these speculative theologians, even though they include some things that fall within