Praise belongs to God alone, the Lord of the worlds. The most learned scholar, Proof of Islam, Abū Jaʿfar al-Warrāq al-Ṭaḥāwī (from Egypt), may God shower him with mercy, stated that the following is an exposition of the creed of the People of the Prophetic Way and the Majority of Scholars (ahl al-sunna wa al-jamāʿa) in accordance with the understanding of the Muslim jurists Imām Abū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʿmān b. Thābit al-Kūfī, Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī, and Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī, may God have mercy on them — including the foundations of the religion upon which they base their worship of the Lord of the worlds. Imām al-Ṭaḥāwī, with the two aforementioned imāms, said: We assert about the unity of God, believing with God's providence, that: