The attributes established by revelation

Al-ṣifāt al-samʻīyah

Wa-ammā al-samʻ wa-al-baṣar wa-al-kalām (1) fa-hiya thābitah bi-al-kitāb wa-al-sunnah wa-al-ijmāʻ fa-yajib ʻalaynā al-īmān bihā munazzihīn dhāt al-ḥaqq ʻan al-jāriḥah wa-al-mumāsah, fa-huwa al-samīʻ al-baṣīr bi-ṣifatayn qāʼimatayn bi-dhātihi taʻālá lā bi-ʻayn wa-lā bi-udhun wa-lā mā yushbihuhā wa-huwa al-mutakallim bi-kalām azalī qadīm qāʼim bi-dhātihi munazzah ʻan al-ḥurūf wa-al-aṣwāt wa-al-jawāriḥ wa-al-ālāt, wa-al-Qurʼān kalām Allāh ghayr makhlūq khilāfan li-al-Muʻtazilah fī nafyihim ṣifat al-kalām ʻanhu taʻālá wa-daʻwāhum anna isnād al-kalām ilayhi aʻammā huwa li-kawnihi yakhluquhu fī maṣdar al-kalām, wa-baʻda hādhā fa-huwa subḥānahu al-muttaṣif bi-kull kamāl yalīq bi-dhātihi wa-lā tastaṭīʻ ʻuqūlunā an tuḥīṭa bi-mā yaʻlamuhu li-dhātihi min anwāʻ al-kamālāt wa-mā yathbut min hādhihi al-ʻaqāʼid bi-al-ʻaql lā yakūn iʻtiqāduhu sababan li-al-saʻādah illā idhā uyyida bi-al-sharʻ. Wa-kamā naʻtaqid li-Allāh taʻālá hādhihi al-ṣifāt naʻtaqid wujūb tanazzuhihi ʻan aḍdādihā

Irsāl al-rusul

Wa-yajib ʻalaynā an naʻtaqid annahu taʻālá arsala rusulan ilá al-khalq mubashshirīn wa-mundhirīn raḥmatan minhu bi-ʻibādihi lā wujūban ʻalayhi, wa-iṣṭafá anbiyāʼ bi-al-waḥy ilayhim kamā arāda, wa-al-nubūwah wa-al-risālah mimmā yakhtaṣṣ Allāh bihi man yashāʼ bi-maḥḍ al-faḍl wa-lā madkhal li-al-maksab fīhā bi-ay ṭarīqah kānat, wa-ḍalla man zaʻama anna al-nubūwah muktasabah kamā dhahaba ilayhi baʻḍ al-Muʻtazilah, wa-li-al-anbiyāʼ wa-al-rusul ṣifāt tajib lahum wa-lā yajūz fī al-ʻaql salbuhā ʻanhum wa-illā lam yakūnū rusulan min ʻinda Allāh wa-lā anbiyāʼ, wa-hiya al-ṣidq, wa-al-amānah, wa-al-fiṭnah wa-al-salāmah min al-munaffirāt, wa-iblāgh mā umirū bi-tablīghihi li-man ursilū ilayhim, wa-al-ʻiṣmah

— al-ḥawāshī —

[27] 1» al-ḥaqq inna al-samʻ wa-al-baṣar wa-al-kalām yadull al-ʻaql ʻalá ithbātihā li-al-khāliq khilāfan li-al-jumhūr al-mutakallimīn wa-qad bayyannā hādhā fī al-tafsīr wa-ghayrihi min mabāḥith al-Manār