2. The second pitfall is that, once he takes anthropomorphic likeness to be the texts’ meaning and then discards that meaning, the texts are left empty of the affirmation they actually contain of attributes befitting Allah. Thus, together with his assault upon the revealed words and his evil assumption about Allah and His Messenger—imagining that what their speech conveys is false anthropomorphism—he has stripped away what Allah and His Messenger placed in those words of affirming the divine attributes and the exalted perfections appropriate to the Majesty of Allah, glorified be He.

3. The third pitfall is that he denies those attributes of Allah without knowledge, thereby depriving the Lord, Most High, of what is rightfully His.

4. The fourth is that he proceeds to describe the Lord with the very opposite of those attributes—namely, the qualities of the dead and of inanimate objects, or even of things that do not exist.

In doing so, he has nullified the attributes of perfection that belong to the Lord, likened Him to deficient and non-existent things, and rendered the texts void of what they actually indicate