of the Jahmiyyah, when he cited their descriptions of Him in terms of negations and their statement, “Whatever comes to your mind as something you know, He is unlike it.” This is what the founder and his peers mean when they say that He is contrary to sense perception, imagination, or reason. This has already been discussed.

He said: “We then asked, ‘Is He something?’ They replied, ‘He is something unlike other things.’ We said, ‘Rational people know that something unlike other things is nothing.’ At that point, it became clear to people that they affirm nothing, but merely ward off condemnation through what they profess in public. When they are asked,