“Allah is poor while we are rich” [Āl ʿImrān 3:181]; and they said, “The hand of Allah is shackled” [al-Māʾidah 5:64]—claiming that He is stingy. They went so far as to say that He created the universe, grew weary, and therefore rested. It has been related from some of them that they said He wept over the Flood until His eyes became sore and the angels came to visit Him, and that He mourned for certain servants whom He had destroyed just as one bereaved laments his dead— and similar blasphemies from which Allah is infinitely exalted and sanctified, glorified and exalted is He.

Moreover, they wax proud, refusing to worship Allah, to obey His messengers, to comply with His commands, or to keep within His limits. They even deny Him the right to abrogate what He has legislated, presuming to impose restrictions upon Him.

By contrast, the Christians attribute to a created being the very qualities that belong to the Creator, making him a lord