Every tradition (hadith) which does not accord with the Book...

Every tradition (hadith) which does not accord with the Book of Allah is null and void (batil), and if it is to be found in the books of our doctors, it is apocryphal (mudallas) [^9] . As for the reports (akhbar) which lead ignorant persons to imagine that Allah is comparable to His creatures, their meanings can be understood by the significance of similar passages in the Qur'an. For example, in the Qur'an (we have): “Everything is perishable except His Face (wajh)” (Qur'an 28:88) .

Now the meaning of wajh, in this context, is *din (*religion). And wajh is that whereby Allah is attained and wherewith one can turn to Him.[^10] And in the Qur'an (we have): “On the day when the leg shall be bared [^11] and they shall be summoned to prostrate themselves, but they cannot; humbled shall be their eyes, and abasement shall overspread them for they had been summoned to prostrate themselves while they were yet unhurt” (Qur'an 68:42-43) .[^12] Now saq (leg) means the result or consummation of the affair and its intensity.

And (there occurs) in the Qur'an: “Lest a soul should say: Oh woe to me! For what I neglected in my duty (janb) towards Allah!” (Qur'an 39:56) . Here janb means obedience.[^13] And (we have) in the Qur'an: “And I breathed into it of My spirit” (Qur'an 15:29) .[^14] Now he created that spirit (ruh), and Allah had breathed of it into Adam and Jesus. He only said: “My ruh” and He said: “My house”; “My slave”, “My garden”[^15], “My fire”, and “My earth”.

And in the Qur'an (we have): “Nay both His hands are outspread” (Qur'an 5:64) By which is meant “the good of this world and the good of the next world”[^16]. And in the Qur'an (we have): “And the sky, We built it by (Our) hands” (Qur'an 51:47) . Now ayd (hand) means “strength ”. And similarly, His Word, exalted is He: “And remember Our slave David, possessed of ayd” (Qur'an 38:18) That is, possessed of strength ( quwwa ). And in the Qur'an (we have): “O!

Iblis, what prevents thee from adoring, what I have created with my two Hands” (Qur'an 38:75) . (By two hands), He means “ My power and My strength (qudra, quwwa). [^17] ” And in the Qur'an (we have): ''And on the Day of Resurrection the whole of the earth (will be) in His possession (qabda)” (Qur'an 39:67) . That is to say, it will be His property and no one will share the earth with Him.

And in the Qur'an (we have): “And the Heavens shall be rolled up, in His right hand (yamin)” (Qur'an 39:67) . (By “right hand”) is meant “His power” ( qudra ).