teaching is like someone who places them all on the same footing in performing a task. All this runs counter to sensory experience and reason. It has thus become clear to you that seeing Allah has a plain meaning and raises no doubt when revelation is taken at its apparent meaning concerning Allah, blessed and exalted—that is, when corporeality is neither explicitly denied nor affirmed.

I say: It is already known that this man holds the philosophers’ views and considers most of what the messengers have conveyed concerning belief in Allah and the Last Day to be parables