ولا يشبه شيئا أي لا يماثله
He resembles nothing; that is, nothing is His equal or counterpart.
To analyze likeness (mumāthalah), one must specify the respect in which equality is claimed. If likeness means identity of essential reality, the Creator and created things are plainly not identical: their modes of being and dependence differ fundamentally.
Yet ordinary language sometimes calls two things “alike” in one particular respect. That usage does not mean that every shared term implies equal divine and creaturely realities.