The Ash’aris frequently argue that they are the majority of the Ummah, but let us take a look at what one of their greatest Imams, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, had to say in his Ta’wil of the dialogue between Musa, peace be upon him, and Fir’awn:

The answer [to the Hanbali arguments] is that these ignorant [Hanaabilah] are utterly humiliated and have totally deviated by the fact that they have made the statement of Pharoah the accursed as evidence for themselves to prove that their [own Aqeedah] is right.

As for Moses, he did not mention anything extra than the attribute of ‘creation’ when defining Allah, as Moses says in Surah Taha: “Our Lord is the one who gave everything its creation, then He guided”, and in Surah al-Shu’araa’ Moses said: “… your Lord and the Lord of your previous forefathers… Lord of the east and west and whatever is between them…”.

By this, it is evident that the definition of the Essence of God being in the heaven is the Aqeedah of Pharoah, and the definition of creation and existence is the Aqeedah of Moses. Whoever opines the first is on the Aqeedah of Pharoah, and whoever opines the second is on the Aqeedah of Moses.

We [the Ash'aris and Mu'tazilites] also say: We do not accept the argument that everything Pharoah says regarding the attributes of God is what he heard of from Moses. Perhaps Pharoah was an anthropomorphist and believed that, had there been a god, he would be in the heaven. Therefore, this expression of Pharoah was from his own self, not because he heard it from Moses.

As for when Pharoah said: “I know [Moses] is a liar”, we [the Ash'aris and Mu'tazilites] say that perhaps when Pharoah heard Moses say: “Lord of the heavens and earth”, Pharoah thought by ‘Lord of the heavens’ Moses meant like when we say ‘Lord of the house’, meaning the lord lives in it. So when Pharoah thought this, he related this statement from Moses [and then falsified Moses]. This scenario is not actually impossible, as Pharoah was so ignorant and so stupid that there is every chance he entertained such a thought in his head. But if the opposition [like the Hanaabilah] cannot comprehend that Pharoah could think so stupidly, it is only befitting of them [the Hanaabilah] as they themselves, because they [the Hanaabilah] are on the Aqeedah of Pharoah, they [the Hanaabilah] must hold Pharoah in high esteem.

As for the [Hanbali] argument that ‘the Fitrah of Pharoah testified that if there was a god, he would be in the heaven’, then we [the Ash'aris and the Mu'tazilites say]:
We do not deny the fact that most people think that this is correct, especially those who are as stupid as Pharoah.
Therefore, it has been proven that this Kalam [by the Hanaabilah] is baseless.

Oh yes, dear Muqallids of al-Razi.

Yahya bin Sallaam, al-Haarith al-Muhaasibi, UbS al-Daarimi, Ibn Jareer al-Tabari, Abul Hasan al-Ash’ari, Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Battah, Abu al-Layth as-Samarqandi, Abu Uthman as-Sabooni, Ibn Abdil Barr, Abul Qasim Ismail al-Isfahaani, Ibn Qudaamah, al-Dhahabi, Ibn Abil Izz, al-Mar’i were all as stupid as Pharoah.

Congratulations. The whole Ummah except you guys are deviants. At least al-Razi did say one good thing – that he categorised most of the Ummah as misguided because everyone thinks that Allah is up above.