we see someone who smears himself with talc and then sits in a burning oven and is not affected by it. and the one who has not seen that denies it. the opponents denial that the ability to prove an attribute of the attributes is included in fire or in the body that prevents burning is like the denial of the one who has not seen talc and its effect. and among the abilities of allah are strange and wondrous things and we have not seen all of them so why should we deny their possibility and rule that they are impossible?
فإنا نرى من يطلي نفسه بالطلق ثم يقعد في تنور موقدة ولا يتأثر به. والذي لم يشاهد ذلك ينكره. فإنكار الخصم اشتمال القدرة على إثبات صفة من الصفات في النار أو في البدن يمنع الاحتراق كإنكار من لم يشاهد الطلق وأثره. وفي مقدورات الله غرائب وعجائب ونحن لم نشاهد جميعها، فلم ينبغي أن ننكر إمكانها ونحكم باستحالتها؟