The seventh argument: If associating partners with Allah entails what he called tashbīh (likening Allah to creation), then it is well known that none of the messengers ever spoke in refutation of this doctrine or forbade people from what he called tashbīh.

There is nothing in the Quran reporting from Muhammad—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—or from the earlier messengers, nor in the Torah, the Gospel, or the other scriptures, nor in the reports transmitted from any of the messengers, indicating that they forbade the polytheists or anyone else to say that Allah Most High is above the heavens, above the Throne, or above the universe, or to describe Him with the attributes known through revelation that these people call tashbīh. Nor did they condemn or reject this, or ever speak in terms of what these people regard as affirmation of Allah’s oneness and transcendence that, in their view, negates this tashbīh.

It is thus established that all the messengers—may Allah’s blessings and peace be upon them—affirmed what these people have called tashbīh. This entails that it is