It may be said in reply: In this argument, he has claimed that the apparent meaning of the Quran—which is Allah’s proof against His servants, the best, truest, and finest speech, by which Allah has guided His servants and which He has made a healing for what is in their hearts and a guidance and mercy for the believers—is that He is a person with a face bearing many eyes, a single side bearing many hands, and a single shin.

He has thus claimed that the apparent meaning of Allah’s description of Himself in His Book is that He has this hideous, repulsive form. On this view, Allah would not be as He has described Himself, for, in the apparent meaning of His words, He has described Himself with the ugliest attributes.