“And be patient with your Lord’s decree, for you are under Our Eyes.” [al-Tūr 48]

And He says: “So that you may be brought up under My Eye.” {39} [Tā Hā 39]

And He says: “What prevented you from prostrating to what I created with My two Hands?” [Sād 75]

And He says: “The whole earth will be in His grasp on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens will be folded in His right Hand. Glory be to Him! Exalted is He above what they associate with Him.” [al-Zumar 67]

By Allah, nothing showed them the greatness of what He has described Himself with, and of what His grasp encompasses, except the smallness, in their own estimation, of its counterpart in themselves. This is what was instilled within them, and their hearts were created to recognize it. Whatever Allah has described of Himself and named through His Messenger, we name as He named it, without presuming to describe Him otherwise. We do neither the one nor the other: we neither deny what He has described nor presume to know what He has not described.

Know—may Allah have mercy on you—that protection in matters of religion lies in stopping where you have been directed to stop and not overstepping the limits set for you, for among