The unbelievers allege that the angels are the daughters of Allah. The Almighty says: “And they have made the angels—who are servants of the Most Merciful—females. Did they witness their creation? Their testimony will be recorded, and they will be questioned.” (Qur’an 43:19)

Third: Belief in His Scriptures. These are the books that Allah sent down to the messengers for the guidance of humankind. We hold that they are truly the speech of Allah, and we affirm both those He has named and those He has not named. Among the scriptures He has specifically mentioned are the Torah, the Gospel, the Glorious Qur’an, the Scrolls of Abraham and Moses, and the Psalms; we believe in all of them and in every other scripture Allah revealed but did not name. Belief in the earlier scriptures is a general affirmation, whereas belief in the Qur’an is a detailed affirmation of everything it contains, for it is our Book and was sent down to our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Whoever denies a single verse or even one letter of it is a disbeliever who has apostasised from Islam.

The same ruling applies to anyone who accepts part of the Qur’an and rejects part of it, or believes in some of the scriptures while disbelieving in others. Thus, whoever says, “I believe in the Qur’an but not in the Torah and the Gospel,” is a disbeliever; and whoever says, “I believe in the Torah and the Gospel but not in the Psalms that was sent down to David,” is likewise a disbeliever—for Allah says: “And We gave David the Psalms.” (Qur’an 4:163) Similarly, whoever denies the Scrolls of Abraham is a disbeliever;