widely known as his: “Our way is the way of those who follow the Book, the Sunnah, and the consensus of the Muslim community. Whatever they believed, we believe. Their belief was to accept and affirm the hadiths authentically transmitted from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, concerning the Throne and Allah’s rising over it, without specifying how, positing an equivalent, or likening Him to creation. Allah is distinct from His creation, and creation is distinct from Him. He neither dwells within them nor mingles with them. He is established over His Throne, in His heaven, not on His earth.”

And ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn Abī Hātim al-Rāzī said: “I asked my father