the intellect. Abū al-Husayn al-Basrī, the most skilled of the Muʿtazilites, suspended judgment on it, and we too choose to suspend judgment.” What greater misguidance in religion and failure to uphold it could there be than this?

The second point is their claim that this is the position of the Muslims, or of the majority of Muslim theologians. Yet it is well known that this position was held only by Abū al-Hudhayl al-ʿAllāf, the Muʿtazilite theologians who followed him, and those who adopted it from them.