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The precise nature of tafwid has been subject to debate among Muslim scholars. The followers of Ibn Taymiyya, including contemporary Salafis, hold that only the modality of the attributes should be consigned to God (tafwid al-kayfiyya), while the literal sense of the attributes should be accepted according to their lexical meaning in the Arabic language. Thus they argue that the salaf accepted that God has a hand, because the meaning of the word "hand" (yad) was known, but

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