whereas another faction—the Jahmiyyah, the atheists, and the philosophers—takes the opposite view, maintaining that such terms are figurative when predicated of the Lord, Mighty and Majestic, and literal when applied to the creature. For the first group, the words are univocal, though they themselves may describe them as “analogous” on account of the difference in degree they imply; some among them go further and claim that the words are merely verbal homonyms.