that Moses did not know that he was an angel sent by Allāh, and thought he was a man intending to kill him, so he defended himself, and this defense led to the gouging of his eye." And although this statement is indicated by the complete story as I have presented, and is confirmed by the beginning of the ḥadīth: "that the Angel of Death used to come to people visibly," meaning in human form, and the gouging of his eye and its restoration strengthens this. I say: despite all this, the man was arrogant and did not respond to the scholars of the ummah except with a statement that any falsehood-drenched person in misguidance could produce: "We say (!) : this defense is of little weight, and it is a trivial defense that cannot be accepted"! And among the man's misguidance and ignorance is his statement (p. 27): "Then, do angels experience the afflictions that befall humans, such as blindness or partial blindness?! That is far-fetched"! So I say: and this is evidence against you, indicating your lack of understanding; for this which you deemed improbable is what led the scholars to say in their defense: that Moses did not know he was an angel, so is it not time for you to understand?!! Then he concluded his misguidance in this ḥadīth and his criticism of it by saying: "The flaw in the text is visible to the investigators (!) and hidden from those with superficial thinking"! Oh, what a deluded person destroyed by conceit! He has made himself among the investigators, and the scholars of the ummah among "those with superficial thinking"! The truth is that he is the flaw; due to his ignorance and lack of understanding "if there is not more to it than that, as indicated by the disbelievers when they are punished in the fire: (If we had been