do you not hear His words: “There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing” [42:11], and His words: “And there is none comparable to Him” [112:4]? That is, He has no peer, no equal, no match, and no likeness whatsoever. Have you not learnt that when He manifested Himself to the mountain, it crumbled under the sheer awe of His majesty and His towering dominion? Just as nothing upon which He unveils Himself remains but is pulverised, so too whoever tries to imagine Him is doomed. Therefore rebut every notion with what Allah has set forth in His Book—His explicit denial of any likeness, similitude, peer, or equal.

Now, should you take refuge in this and hold fast to it, the assault will come at you from another side: from those who strip the Lord—transcendently exalted in His Book and in the Sunnah of His Messenger Muhammad ﷺ—of His attributes. They will whisper, “If He is described with such-and-such, or if you ascribe that to Him, you will have likened Him to creation.” Brand that voice a liar, for it is the accursed one who only seeks to cause your slip, lead you astray, and thrust you into the doctrines of the atheistic deviants who deny the attributes of the Lord Most High.

So know—may Allah have mercy on you—that Allah is One, unlike any other ones; He is Unique, the Eternal Refuge, who has not