Moreover, recitation requires purification from major ritual impurity, just as prayer requires purification from both major and minor ritual impurity, whereas remembrance requires neither. Thus, the highest form of remembering Allah is prayer, followed by recitation, then remembrance in general. Yet during bowing and prostration, remembrance is superior to reciting the Quran, according to the revealed texts and scholarly consensus.

Likewise, many worshippers may initially benefit from remembrance in ways they do not benefit from recitation. Remembrance imparts faith, whereas the Quran imparts knowledge; a person may not understand it and, being at the outset, may need faith more than knowledge. For people of faith, however, reciting the Quran with understanding is superior by agreement.

This and similar examples resemble the diversity of the laws prescribed for the prophets. They all agree that Allah commanded each of them to follow the religion common to them all, and that we should worship Him according to that prescribed law and way. Likewise, the Muslim community agrees that Allah has commanded every Muslim to observe what the law of the Quran prescribes for him, whether as an obligation or a recommendation, even though the actions prescribed may differ for different groups within the community. Their beliefs do not differ, nor does the One they worship, and none of them is mistaken. Rather, they all agree on this, each affirming the truth of the others.