—His reality is unlike that of any of them.

If, however, by taking it according to its apparent meaning he means its apparent meaning as understood by the early generations of the Muslim community—neither distorting words from their proper places, nor deviating concerning the names of Allah Most High, nor reading the Quran and hadith in a manner contrary to the interpretation of those early generations and Ahl al-Sunnah, but rather understanding them in accordance with what the texts entail, what the evidence of the Quran and Sunnah jointly establishes, and what the early generations unanimously agreed upon—then he is correct in doing so, and this is the truth.

This is a summary whose details cannot be elaborated here. And Allah knows best.