serves the purposes of action and execution; and Allah—glorified and exalted is He—is described as acting and doing, for the capacity to act is an attribute of perfection, and one who can act is more perfect than one who cannot.
He is transcendent above having a consort or offspring, and above any organs or means that would entail such a relationship. Likewise, weeping and sorrow imply weakness and incapacity—qualities from which Allah is wholly exalted—whereas joy and anger are attributes of perfection. Just as He is described with power not impotence, with knowledge not ignorance, with life not death, with hearing not deafness, with sight not blindness, and with speech not muteness, so too He is described with joy not sorrow, with laughter not weeping, and the like.
Furthermore, reason corroborates what revelation has affirmed: He, glorified be He, has no equal, no namesake, and nothing resembles Him; therefore it is impossible that