Texts whose surface wording may suggest bodily similarity are read alongside definitive divine transcendence. Where one reading of a figurative or multivalent expression conflicts with a decisive principle, that reading cannot simply be declared obligatory.
والأدلة القطعية قائمة على التنزيهات
Definitive proofs establish the negations required by transcendence.
An “apparent” meaning is not necessarily an unambiguous, exclusive signification. Arabic idiom, context and interpretive principles help identify what is intended. Respect for revelation does not require translating every imaginable creaturely picture into divine ontology.