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A substance differs from God in that it can receive accidents and can be characterized by temporally originated events. The Lord is exalted above receiving such events.”

He said:

“The Karrāmiyya held that temporally originated events subsist in the Lord’s essence. Yet they claimed that He is not characterized by the temporally originated events that subsist in Him. They thus arrived at an unprecedented form of ignorance, saying that a temporally originated utterance subsists in the Lord’s essence, yet He is not a speaker by virtue of it. Rather, He speaks by virtue of the attribute of being a speaker, which they define as the power to speak.

Their fundamental principle is that no new names may arise for the Lord. For this reason, they described Him as being a creator in