Allah?’ If any of you experiences this, let him say, ‘I believe in Allah alone’”—or he said, “Let him seek refuge in Allah and desist.”

In another hadith, the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “People will keep asking you questions until they say, ‘Allah created everything, so who created Allah?’” Abū Hurayrah said: “Two people have already asked me, and this is the third.”

The same is true of ambiguity in the meaning of speech. The Ismāʿīlī heretics and others like them have interpreted prayer, fasting, and pilgrimage