nor mixing nor contact, for He is the Unique One, distinct from creation, the One who has no need of creation. And He is All-Hearing, All-Seeing, All-Knowing, All-Aware; He speaks, is pleased, is displeased, laughs, and marvels. He reveals Himself to His servants on the Day of Resurrection, laughing, and descends every night to the lowest heaven as He wills, saying: ‘Is there anyone calling upon Me, that I may answer him? Is there anyone seeking forgiveness, that I may forgive him? Is there anyone repenting, that I may accept his repentance?’—until dawn breaks.”

He said: “The Lord’s descent to heaven is affirmed without specifying how, likening Him to creation, or reinterpreting it. Whoever denies the descent or reinterprets it is a misguided innovator.”

And the hadith master Abū Nuʿaym al-Asbahānī said in the creed