These false premises are thus means to ignorance, denial of the divine attributes, and rejection of the messengers as liars. Abū al-Maʿālī relied on them only when he departed from his leading scholars regarding the affirmation of the attribute of the Hand and other attributes. He sai[d] in al-Irshād:

“Section: Our leading scholars held that the two Hands, the two Eyes, and the Face are established attributes of the Lord, and that the means of establishing them is revelation, not the judgment of reason.”

He said:

“What we consider correct is to interpret the two Hands as power, the two Eyes as sight, and the Face as existence.”

In the words of his associate Abū al-Qāsim al-Naysābūrī al-Ansārī, commentator on al-Irshād and teacher of Abū al-Fath al-Shahrastānī, author of al-Milal wa-l-Nihal