common to both, leaving no room for anyone to propose another interpretation. He explicitly stated that this means seeing with one’s own eyes, just as those whom you ignorantly called anthropomorphists understood it. The explanation is thus transmitted along with the hadith, yet you interpret it contrary to the Messenger’s explanation (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), without citing any transmitted report from anyone more knowledgeable than yourself.

What wretch, what misguided soul, would abandon the Messenger’s explanation (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), which accompanies his hadith, is understood by the scholars, and is confirmed by the express words of the Book, only to accept your absurd interpretation, which you transmit from none but someone more ignorant and astray than yourself?

Have you not acknowledged that the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said, ‘You will see your Lord, with no difficulty seeing Him, just as you have no difficulty seeing the sun and the moon’—meaning seeing with one’s own eyes? Yet you said: ‘The Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) merely told his Companions that they would have no doubt about His Lordship on the Day of Resurrection.’

Besides its defiance of the Messenger, this interpretation is absurd, false, and contrary to reason, because doubt concerning Allah’s Lordship is absent from