definitional or quantitative multiplicity; or they say that it has neither the composition of a defined entity from genus and differentia nor the composition of bodies. What these expressions mean is that Allah has no attributes and no power.

Likewise, the Jahmiyyah, including the Muʿtazilah and others, say that the Eternal is one, with nothing else sharing His eternity, and that if attributes subsisted in Him, something other than Him would share His eternity. They also say that He is not a body, since a body is composite, constituted of parts, and divisible.