عَقِيدَةُ التَّثْلِيثِ وَالرَّدُّ عَلَيْهَا
The doctrine of the Trinity and its refutation.
The disputation introduces three aqanim (hypostases): Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In the source’s representation, divine reality is spoken of through three distinct designations, and an asserted connection or union among these designations becomes a point of criticism.
Two questions must be kept apart. Do multiple attributes or relations imply multiple deities? And does attributing a divine property or relation to a created being make that being divine? The first concerns divine unity; the second concerns the distinction between Creator and creation.
The account belongs to a historical Muslim-Christian debate. Different Christian theological traditions formulate hypostatic language differently; the argument here answers the particular description presented in this text.