nor in meaning; rather, every one of the prophets—peace be upon them—affirmed a single God who possesses the Most Beautiful Names. His names are many, and each points to one of His many attributes. That multiplicity is by no means restricted to three names or to three attributes. (These attributes do not constitute a hypostasis made up of an essence and a property; there is only one essence that bears multiple attributes.) Hence, plurality applies to the attributes, not to the essence—what they call the substance—nor to the alleged composite of essence and attribute that they term a hypostasis.