a creator. If we add to this principle that the created being is not a creator, it follows that the attributes of the created being are either absent from the Creator or present in Him in a manner different from that in which they exist in the created being.”

I say: He must be declared absolutely free of attributes of imperfection, while attributes of perfection are affirmed for Him in a manner in which no created being resembles Him.

He said:

“We said ‘in a different manner’ because some attributes of the Creator are attributes whose existence we have inferred from those belonging to the noblest created being here, namely man, such as knowledge, life, power, will, speech, and others.”

He said:

“This is the meaning of his statement, peace be upon him: ‘Allah created Adam in His image.’”

He said:

“Once it is established that Scripture has explicitly spoken of likeness itself between the Creator and the created, and has explicitly set forth the proof establishing this, and since the denial of likeness is understood to imply