wrong have Abū Bakr and ‘Umar done me, were it not for hatred of their companion?’

He said: He spoke the truth. I have never seen a man suspected of any Rāfidī leanings who did not utter things unlike the speech of Muslims. As for those who denied that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, speaks, their aim was to invalidate everything. For if, as they falsely claim, Allah Most High were not