He said:
“So I told them: ‘They maintain that the reason they speak of Allah as having two eyes, two hands, a face, a shin, a side, and that He comes in layers of cloud, is simply that the Quran mentions these matters, while affirming that they are not to be taken at their surface meaning. Whoever does take the wording literally—believing that Allah actually possesses two eyes, two hands, a face, a side, physical limbs and organs, and that His very Essence moves from place to place—they curse him and pronounce him an unbeliever. Since they excommunicate anyone who holds such a view, their opponents have no right to keep charging them with it once they themselves disclaim it.’

They replied:
‘We Christians say the same. The reason we state that God consists of three hypostases—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—is that the Gospel has spoken of it. By “hypostases” we do not mean composite persons, parts, or portions or anything else that entails polytheism or plurality; and by “Father” and “Son” we do not intend a fatherhood or sonship that arises from marriage, procreation, intercourse, or sexual union.

Anyone who believes that the three hypostases are three mutually different gods, or three identical gods, or three composite bodies, or three separate parts, or three compounded persons, or mere accidents, or powers, or anything else that entails sharing, plurality, division, or resemblance—or who imagines a sonship produced by marriage, procreation, sexual union, intercourse, the birth of a wife, or arising from any bodies, or from some angels, or from any other created being—such a person we curse, anathematize, and convict.

Having thus cursed or excommunicated anyone who holds that belief, our opponents have no right to saddle us with it once we do not hold it ourselves. And if they still charge us with associationism or assimilation because we say: Father, Son, and Spirit…"