claim that faith consists of knowledge of Allah, submission to Him, love for Him in the heart, and acknowledgment that He is One and that there is nothing like Him, so long as the proof brought by the prophets has not been established against a person. If the proof brought by the prophets has been established against him, then faith consists of acknowledging them and affirming their truthfulness. Knowledge of what has come from Allah is not included in faith.

They do not call any individual quality among these qualities faith, or part of faith, until these qualities come together. Once they come together, they call them faith on account of their conjunction. They compare this to white coloring: when it occurs on an animal, they do not call the animal piebald, or partly piebald, until black and white occur together. When the two occur together on an animal, this is called piebald coloring if it is a horse. If it is a camel