except of one in whom all these attributes are united. All these attributes do indeed belong to Allah, despite Allah’s enemies and however much this may distress them, without their modality being specified or their being likened to those of creation.

He is the One made known through His names in His clear Book, revealed to His Messenger, and He has described Himself by them. His speech and His description are uncreated, despite the Jahmiyyah.

However, Allah’s descriptions are of two kinds. As for His description of Himself, both the description and the One described are uncreated. As for His description of His creation—the heavens, the earth, the mountains, trees, jinn, humankind, livestock, and all other creatures—the description from Him is uncreated, whereas the things described are created