the one addressing them were speaking on Allah’s behalf, he would have spoken to them in terms appropriate to his role, as in comparable cases. Yet it is characteristic of the Jahmiyyah to make someone other than Allah the one who addresses His servants claiming lordship. Thus, they said that the speech Moses heard in the words, “Indeed, I am your Lord” [Tā Hā 12], subsisted in a created entity, such as the tree. Likewise, concerning His words, “Who calls upon Me, that I may answer him? Who asks Me, that I may give him? Who seeks My forgiveness, that I may forgive him?” he said that the one saying this is an angel. Similarly, this founder claimed, concerning the Most High’s words, “And your Lord comes, and the angels, rank upon rank” (22) [al-Fajr 22], that his Lord is one of the angels. All of this is unbelief and heresy.

Sixth: He said, “Then Allah comes to them in a form other than the form in which they saw Him the first time.” This explicitly states that they saw Allah before this address, in a form other than this form. If the one addressing them were an angel, then the one seen previously would have been the angel, not Allah. Yet the hadith explicitly states that they had seen Allah before this occasion.