I say: The writer based his rejection of the division of tawhīd into three categories on four points mentioned at the beginning of his treatise, immediately after the remarks quoted above1. Every one of these points reveals his ignorance, lack of knowledge, and deficient understanding of the scriptural texts concerning the greatest, most important, and most exalted of all matters: Allah’s oneness. If the writer’s ignorance has reached such depths concerning this momentous subject and firm foundation, which even Muslim children understand, what, then, must his grasp of the religion’s other matters and numerous questions be?!

The scholars have said: “A man is led astray only by faulty understanding, ill intent, or both. When the two combine, his share of misguidance is complete.”2.

This man’s faulty understanding is evident beyond dispute from his book. As for his ill intent, the lies, deceit, misrepresentation, fabrications against the scholars, and other such things contained in his book are the strongest indicators and clearest evidence of it. Allah is fully aware of every speaker and his intent.

6. The writer says on p. 6: “First: There is no basis in revelation for calling anyone who disbelieves—even in one part of the Islamic creed—a monotheist. This is established by the explicit texts of the Quran and Sunnah. Indeed, we may not attribute to revelation anything it has not stated and that has not been transmitted. Thus, we may not describe as a monotheist someone who acknowledges Allah’s existence and recognizes that He is the God worthy of worship, yet does not submit and enter this religion. Rather, we call him a disbeliever, as evidenced by the words of Allah Most High:

‘We worship them only to bring us nearer to Allah. Indeed, Allah will judge between them concerning that over which they differ. Indeed, Allah does not guide anyone who is a liar and a hardened disbeliever.’ 3.