Shaykh al-Islām also said:

Concerning the words of Allah, the Almighty:

“Say: The Holy Spirit has brought it down from your Lord in truth,”

and the following verse: The expression “sending down” occurs in the Quran both with and without qualification. It may be qualified as being from Him, as with the Quran, or as being from the sky—meaning from above—as with rain. When unqualified, it is not restricted to any particular kind (*); rather, it includes bringing iron down from mountains, bringing things down from the backs of animals, and other instances.

Thus, His words, “The Holy Spirit has brought it down from your Lord,” explain that Gabriel descended with it from Allah. Similarly, He says:

“The Trustworthy Spirit has brought it down.”

This means that he is entrusted with it and neither adds nor omits anything, whereas someone unfaithful to his trust might alter the message. This indicates several points.

Among them is the invalidity of the claim that it was created within a body, as maintained by the Jahmiyyah among the Muʿtazilah and others. The early generations called anyone who held that it was created and denied the divine attributes and the vision of Allah a Jahmī. Jahm was the first to become known for the innovation of denying the divine names and attributes, and he took this to extremes. He thus has the distinction of taking it to extremes and pioneering its widespread propagation, although Jaʿd had preceded him in some of this. However, although the Muʿtazilah agreed with him in some respects, they differed with him on such matters as faith, divine decree, and certain attributes. And Jahm says that Allah does not