while it, notwithstanding all of this, remains truly existent in the fullest sense and fully entitled to its own attributes—then the Creator, exalted is He, is even more deserving that anyone who denies His attributes be deemed a stubborn negator and that anyone who measures Him by His creation be considered ignorant of Him and guilty of making Him resemble His creatures. He, glorious and exalted, is undeniably real, fully deserving of the names and attributes that are His due.
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As for the comprehensive conclusion, it contains several beneficial principles.
[First Principle – Allah’s attributes comprise both affirmation and negation]
The first principle is that Allah is described through affirmation as well as negation. Affirmation appears in His words informing us that He is All-Knowing of everything, All-Powerful over everything, All-Hearing, All-Seeing, and the like. Negation appears in His statement: “Neither drowsiness overtakes Him nor sleep” (Quran 2:255).
[Negating attributes necessarily implies the affirmation of perfection]
It should be understood that mere negation, by itself, carries neither praise nor perfection unless it entails an implicit affirmation. Pure negation is absolute non-existence; and what is sheer non-existence is, as the saying goes, nothing at all—let alone praiseworthy or perfect. Pure negation