Both theological schools can affirm that God created the world, possesses power and will, and that the world originated. The disputed question is whether takwīn is a distinct, eternal, real attribute subsisting in God, or a description understood through the relation of power and will and the occurrence of the created effect.
On the Māturīdī account, takwīn is eternal while the product is temporal. The Ashʿarī account discusses the temporal occurrence of creation without thereby affirming a bodily change in God.
Denying that creation occurs and denying a separate attribute named takwīn are not the same position. Conflating them would misrepresent the debate.