What is the ruling on the statement that the Qur'an is created?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner asks: What is the ruling on the one who says that the Qur'an is created, and how do I respond to him?

Answer:
He says: The one who says that the Qur'an is created is a disbeliever. Because he denied the Qur'an. He denied the Qur'an. He denied the speech of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), and the speech of Allah is one of His attributes (Exalted and Majestic is He). Whoever denies one of the attributes of Allah is a disbeliever; he does not believe in Allah (Mighty and Majestic), because it is obligatory to believe in Allah, His names, and His attributes as they came in the Book and the Sunnah, without distortion of a text's meaning and without denial of the divine attributes, and without asking how an attribute is and without likening Allah to creation. This is what is obligatory. The one who rejects something of the attributes and denies it is a disbeliever, a disbeliever in Allah (Mighty and Majestic)? Yes.