[Objection]
If it is said, “Whenever a thing resembles another in some respect, then whatever is possible for that other in that respect is likewise possible for it, whatever is necessary for the other becomes necessary for it, and whatever is impossible for the other becomes impossible for it,”

[Response]
we reply: Granted, let us assume that rule holds. Even so, if the shared element does not oblige us to affirm for the Lord—exalted is He—anything that is impossible for Him, nor to deny anything that is His due, then no contradiction follows. Consider, for instance, that we describe Him as existent, living, all-knowing, all-hearing, and all-seeing, while certain creatures are also called living, knowing, hearing, and seeing. Should someone object, “Then, by virtue of His being existent, living, knowing, hearing, and seeing, whatever is possible for those creatures must likewise be possible for Him,” we answer: The consequences that pertain to that common attribute do not apply to the Lord Most High, for it does not entail temporal origination, contingency, deficiency, or anything else that conflicts with the attributes of Lordship.

The attribute they share is nothing more than the notion expressed by the words “existence” or “existent,” “life” or “living,” “knowledge” or “knower,”