If he means that one should ask, “What is He?” because His true nature is unknown, his statement, “The letters hā’ and wāw are His creation,” cannot serve as evidence for that. If this were a valid argument, it could equally be applied to “When?” and “Where?” Even supposing that letters are created, this cannot justify denying that they may be used to make statements about Allah or to ask about some of His affairs and attributes. Placing the word “He” between “When?” and “Where?” indicates that he intended a question.

If he means that, when we say “He,” we merely utter created letters, and that this implies that we have no knowledge of Him, this is utterly false. Those who hold that letters are created and those who hold that they are uncreated agree that referring to Him as “He” does not negate knowledge of Him. It is therefore clear that his statement, “The letters hā’ and wāw are His creation,” serves no purpose whatsoever here.

Since the speaker has offered no coherent, meaningful statement, whether true or false, his words should not be used to establish either its truth or its falsehood. Furthermore, if by saying this he means that the actual voices of Allah’s servants are created, this is correct. But if he means that the letters themselves—the letters of the Quran and otherwise—were not spoken by Allah and are not part of His speech, this contradicts the Book and the Sunnah, as well as the early generations of the Muslim community and its imams.

As for his statement, “If you say, ‘Where?’ His existence preceded place,”