and as for denying both His separateness from creation and His co-location with it, this combines two contradictories. It resembles the statements of the heretics who say, “He is neither knowing nor ignorant, neither capable nor incapable.” For the discourse of these negators all springs from the same source: deviation concerning Allah’s names and signs through Qarmatianism and distorting words from their proper places, and sophistry in rational matters through claiming that neither of two contradictories exists, or