and Abū al-Hasan ibn al-Zāghūnī and others like them are inconsistent in denying that Allah is a body while affirming these attributes. The majority of them say, rather, that these are the inconsistent ones, affirming something at one time and denying it at another, as is well known about them.

Combining affirmation and negation concerning one and the same thing is a greater inconsistency than combining them concerning what it entails and what entails it. If each occurs at two different times, the first is more serious; the same holds if both occur at the same time. But if the first occurs at two different times and the second at the same time, the former is more serious in one respect and the latter in another.

They also say that those men are inconsistent in accepting the existence of attributes that, in us, are accidents, while rejecting the existence of attributes that, in us, are bodies.

The sixteenth point concerns his statement: “Inevitably, then, it became the case that