Shu‘bah, from Abū Jamrah, from Ibn ‘Abbās, who said, “Allah has no likeness.”

We have discussed this at length in al-Ajwibah al-Misriyyah (The Egyptian Responses), explaining that nothing is like Allah in any respect. Any likeness to Him must therefore be denied, whether in an absolute or a qualified sense. The same applies to a rival, an equal, a partner, and other such terms that the Quran negates concerning Him. Among the proofs we mentioned is that Allah Most High denied any likeness to Himself by saying, “There is not, like Him,