“Say, ‘No one can protect me from Allah.’”
[al-Jinn: 22]

And His words:

“And let him associate no one in the worship of his Lord.”
[al-Kahf: 110]

There are many such examples. Moreover, in Arabic, the terms “like” and “equal” do not apply to things they claim to be alike and equal. For example, the Most High says:

“If you turn away, He will replace you with another people, and they will not be like you.”
[Muhammad: 38]

He thus denies likeness between two groups of human beings. It is therefore all the more appropriate to deny likeness between animals, human beings, the celestial sphere, and earth.

It is thus clear that Arabic usage does not imply that everything occupying space is like every other thing occupying space. Even if some speculative theologians claim on rational grounds that such things are alike, the point is that this does not constitute likeness in Arabic usage.

The Quran was revealed in the Arabic language. It is therefore impermissible to interpret it according to a newly introduced technical usage foreign to that language, even if its meaning were sound. How much less permissible, then, when that meaning is rationally false!

And the Most High says:

“The blind and the seeing are not equal.”
[Fātir: 19]

“Nor are the living and the dead equal.”
[Fātir: 22]

And His words:

“The inhabitants of the Fire and the inhabitants of Paradise are not equal.”
[al-Hashr: 20]