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Sunnis believe that the Qur'an is uncreated[clarify], and that this view is fully compatible with Tawhid. The Hanbalis hold the view that

"Not only were the words and sounds of the Quran eternal, so that even its recital was uncreated, but its parchment and binding shared the same qualities''[citation needed].
Abu Hanifa expressed:

We confess that the Quran is the speech of Allah, uncreated, His inspiration, and revelation, not He, yet not other than He, but His real quality, written in the copies, recited by the tongues. The ink, the paper, the writing are created, for they are the work of man."[7]
Following Qur'anic literalism, Ibn Taymiya taught that God does not have body parts, but also that he has features loosely corresponding to hands, eyes and a face. Sunnis believe that God is above the heavens and above his "throne".[8]