the Jahmiyyah denied:

“To proceed: I have understood your question concerning what the Jahmiyyah and their opponents have successively said about the attributes of the Almighty Lord, whose greatness surpasses all description and estimation. Tongues are wearied by the effort to explain His attributes, and minds fall short of comprehending His true measure. His greatness repels the intellects: finding no way through, they return humbled and exhausted. They were commanded only to contemplate and reflect upon what He has created in due measure.

“The question ‘How?’ is asked only of one who once did not exist and then came into being. As for Him who neither changes nor passes away, who has always existed and has no equal, none but He knows how He is. How can the true measure of Him who had no beginning, who neither dies nor decays, be known? How could any attribute of His have a boundary or limit that anyone could know, or an extent that anyone could define? Yet He is the manifest Truth: no truth is truer than He, and nothing is more evident