the believers, who have copied them, earlier generations transmitting them to later ones, and those present to those absent, until the Hour comes, so that they may batter the heads of the Jahmiyyah with them and smash their noses, and your interpretation may be flung into your father’s privy and shattered in your throat, just as it was shattered in the throats of those who outranked you among the governors and judges who held authority over you, such as Ibn Abī Du’ād, ‘Abd al-Rahmān, and Shu‘ayb