other such implications of the more moderate members’ position—they strip the written copy of the Quran of its sanctity, sometimes trampling it underfoot, and sometimes writing it with excrement or other substances. These people are more deeply steeped in disbelief and hypocrisy than those who say that the leather binding and paper are Allah’s speech. The latter believe in the truth but add falsehood to it, whereas the former deny the Book and that with which Allah sent His messengers. They will come to know, when shackles and chains are around their necks and they are dragged through boiling water, then burned in the Fire.

As for those who understand this doctrine and believe in the revealed law, they venerate the written copy of the Quran, recognize its sanctity, and uphold the rulings that the revealed law prescribes concerning it. Although their position contains an element of error and innovation, and their doctrine contains such Jahmism and misguidance that they deny some of Allah’s attributes and some of the attributes of His speech and His messengers, reject some of what Allah revealed to His messengers, and become the effeminate counterparts of the male Jahmiyyah who deny all the attributes, they nevertheless base their position on interpretation and intend to attain the truth.

Despite this Jahmism of theirs, they say:

“The Quran is written in the written copy of the Quran just as Allah is written in it; it is recited by tongues just as Allah is mentioned by tongues; and it is preserved in hearts just as Allah is known in hearts.”

This position contains its share of misguidance, hypocrisy, and ignorance of the bounds of what Allah has revealed to His Messenger. It is what has led the ignorant to disregard the sanctity of