and those within His power are infinite is that knowledge can encompass whatever can be known, and power can extend to whatever can exist; and that whatever can be known and can exist is infinite, but belongs to the realm of hypothetical suppositions and conceivable possibilities, which may be infinite, unlike existing things and concrete realities—this, too, has no force as an objection. For although these things do not exist externally, they nevertheless have a definite existence in the mind. It is clear that the relation posited applies to what exists mentally just as it applies to what exists externally.”

[Ibn Taymiyyah’s Comment]

I say:

Distinguishing between two things requires establishing both the distinguishing characteristic and its bearing on the distinction. Al-Āmidī conceded the characteristic they asserted, but disputed its relevance.