Given that the Qur’an was the speech of God, the Mu‘tazilis argued that the Qur’an was created in time. For them, anyone who believed that the Qur’an was an uncreated attribute of God compromised the absolute unity of God. It has been said that the Mu‘tazili position on the created nature of the Qur’an was partly a reaction to the Christian notion of the incarnation of Jesus, which they saw as infringing the unity of God