The Balanced Path and Integrity of Belief

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• What balance is meant by “between excess and deficiency”?
• Which is an example of excess concerning the Messenger ﷺ?
• What would constitute an improper diminution of the Messenger’s status?
• What follows from affirming both servanthood and messengership?
• What is tashbīh?
• What is the basic error of taʿṭīl?
• What is the sound position between tashbīh and taʿṭīl?
• In which idea does the error of jabr appear?
• Which error associated with the Qadari position is rejected?
• Which description correctly distinguishes khalq and kasb?
• Which balance is indicated by “between false security and despair”?
• If someone feels no risk of divine accountability despite sins, which extreme is this?
• If someone believes forgiveness is impossible after sinning, what is this?
• What is the correct combination of fear and hope?
• What is the sense of “outwardly and inwardly”?
• Holding one belief inwardly while professing its opposite contradicts what?
• What is principally expressed in “We disavow before Allah”?
• Which pair in the four contrasts concerns divine attributes?
• Which pair concerns human actions?
• What quality is emphasized in the concluding couplet?
• Both excess and deficiency depart from a rightful rank.
• Avoiding resemblance requires denying all divine attributes.
• Both total compulsion and independent human creation of acts are rejected extremes.
• Hoping for divine mercy means feeling entirely safe from punishment.
• Outward-inward agreement means professing and inwardly holding the same creed.