” She replied, “In heaven.” He asked, “Who am I?” She replied, “You are the Messenger of Allah.” He said, “Then set her free.”

He said: “Hadiths like this are very numerous. Glory be to Him whose knowledge of what is in heaven is like His knowledge of what is on earth! There is no deity worthy of worship except Him, the Most High, the Magnificent.”

Earlier, in the section entitled “Belief in the Attributes and Names of Allah Most High,” he said:

“Know that those who have knowledge of Allah and of what His prophets and messengers brought regard ignorance of what He has not disclosed about Himself as knowledge, and inability regarding what He has not called them to as faith. In describing Him by His attributes and names, they go no further than what He has stated in His Book through His Prophet. He has said—and He is the most truthful of speakers:

‘Everything will perish except His Face.’

“And He said:

‘Say, “What thing is greatest in testimony?” Say, “Allah is witness between me and you.”’

“And He said:

‘Allah warns you of Himself.’

“And He said:

‘When I have fashioned him and breathed into him of My spirit.’

“And He said:

‘For you are under Our eyes.’

“And He said:

‘So that you may be brought up under My eye.’

“And He said:

‘The Jews say, “Allah’s hand is tied.” May their hands be tied, and may they be cursed for what they have said! Rather, both His hands are outstretched.’

“And He said:

‘The entire earth will be in His grasp on the Day of Resurrection’—to the end of the verse.

“And He said:

‘Indeed, I am with you both; I hear and I see.’

“And He said:

‘Allah spoke directly to Moses.’

“And Allah Most High said:

‘Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth’—to the end of the verse.

“And He said:

‘Allah—there is no deity worthy of worship except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of all existence’—to the end of the verse.

“And He said:

‘He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden.’

“There are many passages like this in the Quran.