nor like created hands?” Likewise, they should be told: “You have never found anyone who wisely governs affairs except a human being. Yet you affirm that the Creator wisely governs affairs without being like a human being. You have thus departed from what is observable and undermined your own reasoning. So do not reject affirming two Hands that are neither two blessings nor two bodily members on the grounds that this is contrary to what is observable.”

If they say, “If you affirm two Hands for Allah on the basis of His saying, glorified and exalted be He, ‘that which I created with My two Hands’ [Sād 75], why do you not affirm Hands in the plural for Him on the basis of His saying, glorified be He, ‘from what Our Hands have made’ [Yā Sīn 71]?” they should be told: