لَا عَلَى سَبِيلِ التَّخَيُّلِ وَالتَّوَهُّمِ
Not by imagination or estimation.
Imagination (takhayyul) can preserve an image after the sensed object is absent. Estimation (tawahhum) grasps particular nonsensible meanings, for example an anticipated danger or relation. These illustrate the modes of created human cognition.
Divine hearing and sight are not assimilated to imagination or estimation. Human mental images and estimates can be mistaken, while the perfection of divine apprehension is understood without ignorance or error. The comparison clarifies meanings of “apprehension,” not an equality of Creator and creature.