تَشْبِيهlikening

Example sentences

• إِذا لم يكن فِيهِ تَشْبِيه الْخَالِق بالمخلوق أَو الْمَخْلُوق بالخالق

  If there is no likening of the Creator to the creation or the creation to the Creator.

  تَشْبِيهُ — likening. 'a likening of', nominative as the thing whose existence is denied ('there is no likening...'), and head of an 'of' pairing with 'the Creator'. So 'no tashbih of...' opens here.

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• وَقَد تَقَدّم مَا ذكره الْمَشَايِخ من نفي التَّشْبِيه والتعطيل

  And what the shaykhs have mentioned regarding the negation of likening and nullification has already been addressed.

  التَّشْبِيهِ — likening. Genitive partner of 'negating' — what is denied, 'the likening of God to creation'. al- makes it the specific theological error.

  From: Worship God Alone →