Since the wording of the scriptural texts has a sanctity that no one professing Islam can openly challenge, they express meanings that contradict those texts in other, newly devised terms that contain ambiguity and imprecision. As Imam Ahmad said:

“They differ over the Book, oppose the Book, and are united in opposing the Book. They make claims about Allah and speak concerning Allah and His Book without knowledge. They use ambiguous language and deceive ignorant people through the confusion they create for them.”

An example of this is what this founder and others with Jahmī tendencies say about establishing proofs that He is not in a particular spatial location or direction—understood in the sense that He could be perceptibly pointed to as being here or there. What he intends to press upon his opponent through these words is that He is neither over the Throne nor above the world, as he states elsewhere in his writings, distorting the scriptural texts that indicate this. Yet he did not frame the issue