affirms the divine attributes and another that denies them. He also discussed the Khawārij, noting that their position on most questions of divine unity is that of the Mu‘tazilah. He said:

“The Murji’ah differed concerning divine unity. Some adopted the Mu‘tazilah’s position on divine unity, which we shall explain, while others affirmed resemblance between Allah and His creation.”

Tenth point:

His statement:

“If that is so, how can reason find it implausible that the Creator of sensible things should be free of the concomitants of sense perception and the associations of imagination?”

The response is:

You are the one who has made Him a figment of the imagination, with no reality in the external world, by making His existence akin to that of mental entities, which exist only in the mind and imagination. This is an imagined assertion with no reality, like fabricated falsehood and invented lies. All these things exist in the mind and imagination, but have no reality in