The meaning of the Saying of the Imams, peace be upon them, that Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, is a Thing

to the heretic when he asked him about what Allah is: He is a Thing different to all things. With my saying «a thing» I indicate to confirm a meaning, and that He is a Thing by the truth of Thingness, except that He is…

Is it permissible to say that Allah is a thing? He said: Yes, as long as one excludes Him from the two limitations; the limitation of incapacitation and the limitation of anthropomorphism.