And it is self-evident that all of this contradicts what the Messengers conveyed and constitutes outright polytheism: taking someone other than Allah as a god and lord. The doctrines of the Jahmiyyah necessarily entail this. For this reason, some of the imams of the early generations said that whoever claims that His words to Moses, “Indeed, I am your Lord” [Tā Hā 12], are created is a disbeliever, because he makes this speech subsist in a created being, which necessarily implies that this being is the Lord. All their other interpretations are likewise of this kind.