of works on sectarian doctrines concerning a small group of anthropomorphists. Even so, these people must ascribe to Him a magnitude and attributes by which they distinguish Him from human beings. It is therefore clear that the argument he has advanced is invalid.

The twenty-sixth point: It may be said that he has claimed that human beings, from the earliest to the latest generations, who call upon Allah with their hands raised towards Him and their hearts turned in His direction on high, have likened Him to the living, knowing, powerful beings they have observed—just as someone imagines unseen members of this kind in terms of those he has seen.

It is evident that he himself commits the very error he attributes to human beings, both in the original case on which his analogy rests and in the derivative case he has compared with it. Regarding his statement, “Just as someone who has seen only black people, when picturing a human being speaking to him, thinks first of that person as black and nothing else,” the response is that two cases must be distinguished. The first is that he knows of no human beings except black people. The second is that, even if he has not seen black people, he has learned through reports