LessonsCreed Casebook: Claims, Principles and Sound JudgmentsQuiz

Scenario: Two people disagree: one denies hearing and sight in the name of transcendence; the other affirms the attributes but imagines their modality as human organs.

لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ
Nothing is like Him; He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.

Governing principle: Allah’s incomparability and His established attributes are both affirmed; neither anthropomorphism nor wholesale negation is sound.

Sound application: Affirm the revealed attributes without assigning to them creaturely forms or modalities.

Limit of the conclusion: Incomparability does not negate the attributes, and affirming an attribute is not a claim to know its precise modality.

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Combining transcendence with affirmed attributes

Creed Casebook: Claims, Principles and Sound Judgments

Scenario: Two people disagree: one denies hearing and sight in the name of transcendence; the other affirms the attributes but imagines their modality as human organs.

لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ
Nothing is like Him; He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.

Governing principle: Allah’s incomparability and His established attributes are both affirmed; neither anthropomorphism nor wholesale negation is sound.

Sound application: Affirm the revealed attributes without assigning to them creaturely forms or modalities.

Limit of the conclusion: Incomparability does not negate the attributes, and affirming an attribute is not a claim to know its precise modality.