The sound version recorded by Muslim and others reads:

“God Almighty says: ‘Grandeur is My cloak and pride is My mantle; whoever contests Me over either of them, I shall punish him.’”

Ibn ʿArabī, Ibn Sabʿīn, and other heretical Ṣūfīs followed this line, and—together with the additional innovations and irreligious doctrines they espoused—it drove them into the creeds of indwelling (ḥulūl) and ontological union (ittiḥād).

Al-Māzarī and other scholars took Abū Ḥāmid to task for his talk of “assuming God’s traits,” going so far in their rejection as to declare that there is no divine Name with which a servant may adorn himself.

For that reason, Abū al-Ḥakam Ibn Barrajān avoided this wording and instead spoke of “worshipful devotion.” A fuller discussion belongs elsewhere, for among God’s Names and attributes are those whose corresponding qualities in a servant—knowledge, mercy, wisdom, and the like—are praiseworthy, and others—such as divinity, coercive dominion, and haughtiness—are blameworthy when a servant lays claim to them.