He said: “When they are asked, ‘Whom do you worship?’ they say, ‘We worship the One who governs the affairs of this creation.’ We say, ‘Is this One who governs the affairs of creation unknown, not known by any attribute?’ They say, ‘Yes.’ We say, ‘The Muslims now know that you affirm nothing. You merely ward off reproach by what you outwardly profess.’”

Here, then, he considered the matter in relation to the Muslims who worship Allah Most High. Worship entails directing one’s intention and will toward the object of worship, and intention and will necessarily entail knowing it and having knowledge of it. When they said, “We worship the One who governs the affairs of this creation,” and then said, “He is unknown, not known by any attribute,” it became clear to the Muslims who worship Allah that they affirm nothing to worship. They are merely hypocrites in this regard, for that which is not known by any attribute cannot be intended as an object of worship and thus worshipped.

The Muslims therefore recognized the falsity of their claim that they worship and affirm Allah, just as rational people recognized the falsity of their claim that they acknowledge and affirm His existence. They are the very ones who denied that He is known by any attribute, thereby denying His attributes altogether. They also denied that He resembles other things in any respect whatsoever, thereby denying His existence.