nor can it be apprehended by intellect or by passions; what is required is simply to follow and to renounce one’s whims. Among the indispensable parts of the Sunnah—if anyone abandons a single element of it, refusing to accept and believe in it, he is no longer counted among its people—are the following:

1. Belief in the Divine Decree, both its good and its evil, together with affirming the hadiths on the matter and having faith in them. One must not ask, “Why?” or “How?”; rather