nor a child, and that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger; that Paradise is real and Hell is real; that the Hour is coming, beyond any doubt; that Allah will resurrect those in the graves; and that Allah is above His Throne, as He said:
‘The Most Merciful rose over the Throne.’
They affirm that He has two hands, without specifying how, as He said:
‘Whom I created with My two hands.’
And as He said:
‘Rather, both His hands are outstretched.’
They affirm that He has two eyes, as He said:
‘Sailing under Our eyes.’
And that He has a face, as He said:
‘And the Face of your Lord, full of majesty and honour, will remain.’
They affirm that Allah’s names must not be described as other than Allah, as the Muʿtazilah and the Khawārij have claimed.”
He went on to say:
“They say that the Quran is the speech of Allah, uncreated, and that discourse concerning suspension of judgment and the utterance is an innovation. Whoever advocates suspension of judgment or a position concerning the utterance is, in their view, an innovator. One must neither say that uttering the Quran is created nor that it is uncreated.”
He went on to say:
“They do not declare anyone among those who face the qiblah to be a disbeliever because of a sin he commits, such as fornication, theft, or similar major sins. They remain believers by virtue of the faith they possess, even if they commit major sins.
“In their view, faith consists of believing in Allah, His angels, His Books, His messengers, and divine decree—its good and its evil, its sweetness and its bitterness—and believing that whatever missed them could never have befallen them, and whatever befell them could never have missed them. Islam is to testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, as stated in the hadith. In their view, Islam is distinct from faith.”
He went on to say:
“They affirm that faith consists of speech and action, that it increases and decreases, and they do not say that it is created or that it is uncreated.”
He then gave a lengthy account, at the end of which he said:
“And regarding all that we have mentioned