Al-'Aqidah Al-Wasitiyah
Introduction
In the name of Allah the Compassionate, the Merciful1 The praise belongs to Allah2 Who sent His Messenger3 with guidance and the religion of truth (i.e., Islam) making it incumbent on all religions. Allah is the best of witnesses4, and I testify that there is no god but Allah alone and that He has no partner5; I admit and believe in the oneness of Allah. And I testify that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger6; May Allah greatly bless him, his family, and his companions.
This is the belief of the saved group7, the victorious ones to the Day of Judgment, the people of the Sunnah and the Jama'ah8 (i.e., The belief in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the resurrection after death, the belief in Divine Decree (qadar), be it good or bad)9.
Part of the belief in Allah is the belief in how He has described Himself in His Book (the Qur'an) and in how His Messenger Muhammad 
has described Him. Believe without distorting or denying and without questioning or shaping; Rather, believe in Allah, The Exalted:
"There is none like Him; He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer." (ash-Shura 42/11)
Do not deny Him the way He has described Himself; Do not change words from their context; Do not disbelieve the names of Allah and His Signs; Do not exemplify His Attributes with the attributes of His creatures because Allah, The Exalted, has no likeness: There is none comparable to Him; There is none equal to Him; The Exalted, the Supreme, is not measured by His creatures; Indeed, He best knows Himself and others; He is All-Truthful; and His Speech prevails over the speech of His creatures.
Moreover, His messengers are truthful and thus speak the truth. This is opposite to those who speak about Him what they themselves know not. About this, The Exalted, The Supreme has said:
"Glorified be your lord, the Lord of Majesty, from that which (the unbelievers) attribute (unto Him). And peace be upon the messengers. And praise be to Allah the Lord the Universe." (as Saffat 37/180-182).
He glorified Himself with what the opponents of the messengers said of Him; And He greeted the messengers because what they said was free from defect.
He (the Glory is His) combined what He described Himself as between negation and affirmation10. Consequently, the people of the Sunnah and Jama'ah must not deviate from what the messengers brought forth; verily, it is the right path, the path of those upon whom Allah bestowed His grace, the path of the prophets, saints, martyrs, and righteous people.
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