Al-TadmuriyyaIbn Taimiya

good-pleasure, anger, and wrath is to reduce them to nothing more than His will to reward or to punish, then the very objection you raise against affirming will confronts you again in love, aversion, pleasure, and displeasure.

Should someone reinterpret these attributes in terms of their effects—that is, the reward and punishment He brings into being—he is still beset by the same difficulty from which he tried to escape. For any intelligible action must first subsist in the agent, while reward and punishment, as produced effects, only follow an act that the rewarding or punishing agent loves and approves of, or loathes and disapproves of. Thus, if they affirm the act in the very manner in which it is intelligible in the observable case of a human being, they have lapsed into anthropomorphism; and if they insist that it occurs in some other, unknowable fashion, that same claim could be—and should be—made for every other attribute as well.

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As for the two illustrative examples:
[First example: Paradise]
Allah—exalted is He—has informed us about what Paradise contains of created things: many varieties of food and drink, garments, and spouses.

ورضاه وغضبه وسخطه هو إرادته للثواب والعقاب، كان ما يلزمه في الإرادة نظير ما يلزمه في الحب والمقت والرضا والسخط. ولو فسَّر ذلك بمفعولاته - وهو ما يخلقه من الثواب والعقاب - فإنّه يلزمه في ذلك نظير ما فرّ منه، فإن الفعل المعقول لا بدّ أن يقوم أولا بالفاعل، والثواب والعقاب المفعول إنما يكون على فعل ما يحبه ويرضاه، ويسخطه ويبغضه المثيب المعاقب، فهم إن أثبتوا الفعل على مثل الوجه المعقول في الشاهد للعبد مثّلوا، وإن أثبتوه على خلاف ذلك، فكذلك سائر الصفات. فصل وأما المثلان المضروبان: [المثل الأول - الجنة] فإن الله ﷾ أخبرنا عما في الجنة من المخلوقات، من أصناف المطاعم والمشارب والملابس والمناكح

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