التَّوَقُّفُ
Withholding a decisive comparative judgment.
Suspension does not mean that the persons lack known virtues or that no evidence exists. It means that a precise comparison is judged insufficiently certain for an unequivocal conclusion.
One must distinguish caution in a disputed subsidiary ranking from denial of foundational beliefs. Hesitation over a limited comparison is not equivalent to rejection of divine unity or prophethood.