His names and attributes, for that which has neither names nor attributes is nothing—it is sheer nonexistence. As some scholars have said: “One who likens Allah to His creation worships an idol; one who denies His attributes worships nothing; and the monotheist worships the God of earth and heaven”1.

With this clarified and established, it must be understood that the writer’s description of this classification—in his earlier remarks and on the front of his book—as a form of trinitarianism in monotheism and Islamic belief is an utterly malicious, misguided, and deviant claim. He has likened the creed derived from the Quran and Sunnah to the Christians’ deviant and misguided creed. Whoever makes this unjust claim deserves to have his tongue cut out and his fingers broken, and to be called upon to repent of this hideous statement and blind misguidance.

Then what will the writer say about the verses that indicate the division of monotheism into three categories and discuss each category separately? Will he say that they indicate trinitarianism? Or will he add restrictions and qualifications of his own to them? And what fault is there in citing the Quran as evidence for this classification of monotheism? None but a misguided, deviant person denies this great principle established in the Quran and Sunnah.

2 The writer says on p. 3: “... especially since this classification was entirely unknown to the pious predecessors; it was only invented and became widespread after the seventh century AH.”

He also says on p. 6: “Neither Allah Most High in His Book nor the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—in his Sunnah1 stated that monotheism is divided into three categories: Allah’s oneness in His lordship, His right to be worshipped, and His names