in a single hour.” Whoever likens the effects He has created to the effects produced by others has fallen into the likening practiced by the Magian Qadariyyah. How much more so, then, someone who likens His own acts or His attributes to another’s acts and attributes!

These people may be told: You know that the sun is a single body, moving with a single, uniform, unvarying motion. Yet through this single motion, it rises upon some people and sets upon others; it is near to some and far from others. Thus, because of it, some experience night while others experience day; some experience winter while others experience summer; some experience heat while others experience cold. If a single motion produces night and day simultaneously for two groups, and winter and summer simultaneously for two groups, how, then,