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said that it means: Do you know any competitor who could compete
with ~im?~" This is the meaning of the report narrated from Ibn
'Abbss: "Do you know of any who is like or similar to Him?"709
AUah (%) also says: 4And there is none co-equal or comparable unto
Him.) (Qur'an 112: 4) With regard to the affirmation of the divine
attributes, this appears in detail: dand He is the AL-Hearer, the Allseer.)
(Qur'an 42: 11)
At the end of Soorat al-Hashr, Allah (g) says: dHe is Allah,
beside Whom Lci ilhha ill6 Huwa [none has the right to be
worshipped but He] the All-Knower of the unseen and the seen. He is
the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. He is Allah, beside Whom Lri
ilciha ill6 Huwa [none has the right to be worshipped hut He], the
King, the Holy, the One Free from all defects, the Giver of security,
the Watcher over His creatures, the All-Mighty, the Compeller, the
Supreme. Glory be to Allah! [High is He] above all that they
associate as partners with Him. He is Allah, the Creator, the Inventor
of all things, the Bestower of forms. To Him belong the Best Names.
All that is in the heavens and the earth glorify Him. And He is the
All-Mighty, the All-Wise.) (Qur'an 59: 22-24)
There are many other similar verses as well.710
The Shia narrate from their Imams that the Creator cannot be
described except in the way He described Him~elf.~" However, the
Shia turned away from that just as they turned away from the Book of
Allah and from the dictates of reason and common sense, preferring
instead the route of mere imitation and picking up the garbage of
extinct philosophies. How can any rational person dare to rely -
with regard to a matter of the unseen, which there is no way to know
in detail except by means of divine texts - on limited rational
discussions and flawed ideas, and to refer concerning these issues to
the contradictory imagination of human beings and their conflicting
concepts?712