As for their claim that “the world” is a collective noun in the singular, that is not so. Rather, “the world” is a [collective] noun with no singular derived from the same word, and it does not apply to a single entity.

He said:
As for His words, “You two, cast into Hell” [Qāf: 24], we only needed to depart from the wording because it had been established that the command was addressed to one person. Thus, “You two, cast” means “Cast.” Here, however, we have explained why figurative interpretation is inadmissible and invalidated its justification. Those who advocate these figurative interpretations themselves allow that, when departing from the wording, the intended meaning may be something other than their interpretations. They have adopted them only on the basis of conjecture. An attribute of Allah Most High cannot be negated by a method of this nature.”

There is no doubt that those who affirm these attributes fall into four categories:

One category affirms them while unconditionally denying corporeality, composition, and division into parts. This is the approach of the Kullābīs and Ash'arīs, and a group of Karrāmīs such as Ibn al-Haysam