Second: Just as an attribute may properly be ascribed to that which possesses it, it may also be ascribed to its Creator and Originator. The purpose of this ascription would then be to indicate that this image is distinguished from all other images by its greater dignity and majesty.

Third: Shaykh al-Ghazālī said that the human being is not this bodily structure, but rather an entity that is neither a body nor corporeal, whose connection to this body consists solely in governing and directing it.