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تَشْبِيه likening in Arabic

تَشْبِيه is how you say “likening” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

From Worship God Alone

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More example sentences

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.

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