Is there any Shari prohibition in saying, "Indeed, the attributes of Allah, may He be blessed and exalted, do not resemble the attributes of created beings in any way whatsoever, except in name only"?
Allah Almighty is not like anything, and whoever likens Allah to His creation has committed disbelief, just as whoever denies what Allah has described Himself with has committed disbelief. The statement mentioned in the question is unobjectionable, because its intent is that Allah's attributes do not resemble the attributes of creation, and mere agreement in the name of an attribute does not necessitate similarity in what is named. It is appropriate to express by negating mumathalah (likeness/analogy) rather than tashbeeh (resemblance/anthropomorphism); because tamtheel (representation/likening) is what the Quran negated, and because negating tashbeeh absolutely is not correct due to the existence of a common denominator between any two existing things. Furthermore, people have differed regarding the definition of tashbeeh, with some considering the affirmation of attributes to be tashbeeh.
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