Yūsuf ibn Mūsā said:

Abū Abd Allāh was asked, “Our Lord does not resemble anything in His creation, nor does anything in His creation resemble Him—is that so?”

He replied, “Yes. There is nothing like Him.”

Thus, Ahmad’s statements include:

“He looks upon them and speaks to them however He wills and whenever He wills”;

“He is upon the Throne however He wills and as He wills”;

and:

“He is upon the Throne without limit, as He said, ‘Then He rose over the Throne,’ however He wills. The will belongs to Him, and the ability belongs to Him. There is nothing like Him.”

I say: He is the Creator of all things, and He is as He has described Himself: All-Hearing, All-Seeing. This makes clear that His looking upon them, His speaking to them, His being above the Throne, and His rising over the Throne are matters connected with His will and ability.

By his words, “Without any limit or attribute that a describer can encompass, nor can anyone delimit Him,” he denied that the knowledge of created beings encompasses Him, or that they can delimit Him or describe Him as He truly is, except through what He has disclosed about Himself. This clarifies that the minds of created beings cannot encompass His attributes, as al-Shāfiʿī said in the introduction to al-Risāla:

“Praise be to Allah, who is as He has described Himself and above how His creation describes Him.”

This is why Ahmad said:

“Eyes cannot perceive Him with any limit or endpoint.”

He thus denied that any limit or endpoint could be perceived for Him, and this is the more accurate