LessonsPrayer for a Good End and Dissociation from Deviant DoctrinesQuiz

The Mushabbihah are described as likening Allah's essence and attributes to those of created beings. The position imagines the Creator in terms of the bodily characteristics of creation.

Body, limbs, blood, flesh, and skin are features of created corporeal beings. Attributing comparable features to the divine essence is tashbīh, for it assigns creaturely characteristics to the Creator.

Affirming divine attributes is not the same as attributing a created body or form to Allah. Proper transcendence excludes such resemblance.

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The central claim of the Mushabbihah

Prayer for a Good End and Dissociation from Deviant Doctrines

The Mushabbihah are described as likening Allah's essence and attributes to those of created beings. The position imagines the Creator in terms of the bodily characteristics of creation.

Body, limbs, blood, flesh, and skin are features of created corporeal beings. Attributing comparable features to the divine essence is tashbīh, for it assigns creaturely characteristics to the Creator.

Affirming divine attributes is not the same as attributing a created body or form to Allah. Proper transcendence excludes such resemblance.