that is straight * the path of those You have blessed, not those who have incurred Your anger, nor those who have gone astray.”
[al-Fātihah: 6–7].

Christians liken the created being to the Creator in attributes of perfection, while Jews liken the Creator to the created being in attributes of deficiency.

For this reason, the Quran condemns each group for the error into which it fell. If the descriptions in the Torah belonged to this category, there would have been the strongest reasons to denounce them, and doing so would have been among the most correct actions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, the Companions, and their successors. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would have denounced them in the same manner as those who negate the divine attributes.

We would then say that affirming these attributes entails corporeality, embodiment, likening Allah to His creation, and specifying how His attributes are, whereas Allah is exalted above all that. For most of those who negate these attributes reject them only on the grounds that they entail corporeality.

Among Muslims and the People of the Book are those who affirm embodiment. If this were corporeality and embodiment that had to be denounced, the Messenger would have been the first to denounce it and the most entitled to do so.

If the way to deny defects, deficiencies, and resemblance between the Creator and His creation were to identify the embodiment and corporeality involved, then denouncing these things by this method would have been the straight path—as was done by those speculative theologians who denounced them by this method and accepted its implications. Yet the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, his Companions, and their successors did not utter a single word of this; rather, what he said was