substance and accident, forming a composite subject to number, with each distinguished from the other by a particular property or by time. Composition is also considered with regard to species and genera, and the attribute of being al-Samad implies the negation of all this.”

I say: As for the corporealists who say that Allah is flesh, blood, bone, and the like, or those who hold the Creator to be of the same kind as any created body, their appeal to this name is invalid for several reasons.

First, none of the term’s interpretations indicates any such thing. His having no hollow interior, His being solid, or any other such attribute does not entail that He is of the same kind as any created thing whatsoever, let alone that He is flesh, blood, and bone like an animal.

Second, the angels are described as having no hollow interior, and solid bodies are described in the same way, yet they are not flesh and blood. How, then, can it be said that describing the Creator as al-Samad, having no hollow interior, entails that?