Descriptions of divine attributes require two commitments. First, what the Qur’an affirms of God must be taken seriously as a means of knowing divine perfection. Second, God’s reality must not be assimilated to finite creatures. Human language may guide understanding, but it does not contain the Creator within a human mode of existence.
لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ
“There is nothing like Him.” (Qur’an 42:11)
This brief principle rules out treating God as a bodily or limited counterpart of creatures. To affirm knowledge, power, will and the other attributes established in revelation is one matter; to assign them the modalities, needs or limitations of human capacities is another.
Transcendence does not require denying perfection, while affirmation does not entail anthropomorphism. Holding both together allows the language of divine attributes to perform its intended purpose without generating a false picture of God.