as much as you are able.” And he, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:

“When I command you to do something, do as much of it as you are able.”

The point is that the knowledge, certainty, tranquility, sound conviction, steadfast speech, and absolute confidence in their beliefs possessed by ordinary believers and their scholars among Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamāʿah are denied only by someone whom Allah has deprived of reason and faith.

Even supposing that the opponent does not concede this, there is no doubt that they testify to this about themselves and say that they experience it. He and his group, however, testify to the opposite about themselves and find within themselves nothing but doubt. Which of the two groups, then, more deserves to have its discourse described as empty verbiage? Which is more deserving of being charged with ignorance, misguidance, falsehood, and deceit?

The statements on this subject by the shaykhs and leading scholars of the Sunnah, jurisprudence, and knowledge are far too extensive to recount here.