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“I am your most exalted lord,”
and said that he had created himself. Rather, the truth is what Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamā‘ah uphold. The error lies in supposing that these two truths are necessarily contradictory, such that affirming either entails denying the other. This is not true. It arises because the mind adds to what is known and established by evidence something that is neither known nor established by evidence; that addition then contradicts what is known and supported by evidence.
{أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلَى}
وَقَالَ إنَّهُ خَلَقَ نَفْسَهُ وَإِنَّمَا الْحَقُّ مَا عَلَيْهِ أَهْلُ السُّنَّةِ وَالْجَمَاعَةِ. وَإِنَّمَا الْغَلَطُ فِي اعْتِقَادِ تَنَاقُضِهِ بِطَرِيقِ التَّلَازُمِ وَأَنَّ ثُبُوتَ أَحَدِهِمَا مُسْتَلْزِمٌ لِنَفْيِ الْآخَرِ فَهَذَا لَيْسَ بِحَقِّ وَسَبَبُهُ كَوْنُ الْعَقْلِ يَزِيدُ عَلَى الْمَعْلُومِ الْمَدْلُولِ عَلَيْهِ مَا لَيْسَ كَذَلِكَ وَتِلْكَ الزِّيَادَةُ تُنَاقِضُ مَا عُلِمَ وَدَلَّ عَلَيْهِ.